Posted: 12/20/2008 12:33:23 PM EDT
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I know someone that has a tec 9 for sale with 6 32 round mags for 575$.
i love the way the look "gangsta" what do you guys think about the tec 9. i have herd there garbage from a few of you on here. thanks for any info |
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The Intratec Tec 9, DC9 series are quite controversial.
Hated by the anti-gunners for decades, used in but one high profile crime(I know about), which is the Columbine shootings. Long out of production, but still feared. More popular in the movies and in the gun-fearing publics mind than in real life in a shooters arsenal. I own one, a DC9 with the dreaded threaded and shrouded barrel. Mine works perfectly with ball ammo, and accuracy is ok. The Tec 9's seem to be gaining in value as a collector gun now. Hard to grasp, as I remember these selling for $99 brand new in the early 1990's. The auction sites have sold a couple of the Tecs for less than $400 recently, so the price seems high. More a curiousity and fun gun to me. I've heard the firingpins are prone to breakage from dry firing however never an issue with mine. Many reports from shooters condeming the Tec as junk, and so it may be. I have fired the Tec 22 caliber version, and it was a true jamming POS! Quite a few report the 9mm guns run well without problems. Thats the way mine is, just eats up 115gr. ball ammo as fast as a mag can be loaded and inserted. I have two of the "32 shot" mags, and they actually hold something like 36 rounds. In my opinion the asking price is too high! I would think a Tec 9 could be found for substantialy less money. But maybe not, they are out of production. |
| i dont mean to offend anyone who owns one, but my stepdad did have one before he passed away. i never liked them for several reasons. the metals are really soft in them, i have seen broken firing pins in them. I broke one down one time and i never liked how the trigger/sear/disconnect in them, looks and feels really cheap. after seeing that for myself, i would never own one even if it was given to me. |
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Around '93 or '94 my friend bought a Tec DC-9 and I bought a Cobray M-11/9. They were about $150 each, maybe the Cobray was a few dollars more. We both caught some flak from the good 'ol boyz for buying "cheap gangsta guns" but I can say this: Neither one has ever jammed, misfired, or stovepiped and they are a real hoot to shoot (32 out-the-hole as fast as you can squeeze 'em off). I know I've shoved well over 1000 rds outta both and consider it a steal-deal today even at 2 or 3 bills, perhaps more with all the accessories (mags, sling, loader, & case) if that's what you are looking for.
And I leave you with this final thought... A true Kodak moment: Picture the look on a mugger's face when you pull open your jacket to reveal a Tec-9 or M-11 just before you air-mail him a coupla Hydra-Shoks !!! (remember Buckwheat ?!?) Priceless!!! 
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it was THE most INACCURATE gun I ever had.
if you were 15ft in front of me you were safe. and I tried to be accurate it just wasn't happening. I did disperse a crowd of wanna be rioters with it one time. there was "racial" crap going on at the time, I was going to shoot the "new" Tec. I backed out of the garage and started down the alley.a group of "idiots" stood in the middle and wanted to kill some witey. I laughed and set it on the dash... the rats scurried away pretty quick. a Tec-9 has SOME benefits! |