hanging around here.
I don't normally post e-mails to me, but this is worth a read:
My original post on the Cavalry Arms Industry forum:
I have seen the posts for the USC project, and it looks like an EXCELLENT Idea. I will probably buy a USC
in the first part of next year and then get the conversion kit when it is available.
The only catch to that is the price of the USC's WILL go up when a high quality conversion kit hits the
market. Dealers will charge full Suggested Retail, and Used guns will be not much less. The only reason
SL-8's haven't gone up is because of the piss-poor reputation of Speshul Wempons.
Shawn, is there any possibility of a heads up from you on the availability of the kits (i.e.--in production in
2 months) posted here and the GD or GFD boards? I for one would appreciate it.
A reply I got (titled HA HA HA HA HA) from
[email protected]:
Shawn the moron will never make this kit he is way to stupid to pull this
off....
Shawn Prototype in 30 days that was Aug 1 2001 now Dec 15 and still only
computer picts from 3 months ago...
Hold your breath and you will expire before he does anything, he tried to copy a
m4 hand guard that is COPY it and 4 months later NOTHING...
We are selling the sl8 kits as fast was we can make them and well everyone so
far LOVES it!!!
I will let you on to a little inside info, if shawn does this he is dumber then
the looks and he looks really dumb!
SL8 made to date 15,000
USC made to date 1300
any business man can only expect 20% of market no mater what he has so 20 % of
1300 is 260 there is no way you can recover your RD and tooling in 260 parts NO
WAY he is pissing in the wind and as for the 20 people on the internet saying go
for it well that is 20 or the 260 people. This is a loose loose project until
the sales hit 5000 and even with the kit do you want a $1000 gun, black it out
for $200 and Shawn $500 kit and you get a $1700 piece of plastic that shoots
greese gun mags.....Good luck
you guys are dumber then you look!
I got a huge kick out of that.
I had the form to pre-order (it would have been nearly 2 years to get it!!) an SW-5, and wound up putting the $700 into an HK SR-9 instead--one of my smartest gun decisions. I have seen the replies made by Todd to his critics, and have no interest in Special Weapons. I have also heard (both second hand, and in posts by Todd himself) multiple outrageous claims--he is buying HK, HK is discontinuing the MP-5 and all the gov.org and mil.org groups will be buying their stuff from Special Weapons, etc., etc., etc, ad nauseatum.
I am surprised he didn't want to sue me--but I guess he is too busy negotiating a contract to build a couple of Aircraft Carriers for the Pentagon.
AFARR