From the NRA floor: SilencerCo’s Maxim 9
Seen on the floor of the NRA show, it grabbed my attention because it looks like Robocop’s gun. The SilencerCo Maxim 9:
It will be an integrally suppressed 9mm handgun. And it will take Glock magazines. The concept is interesting. Here’s a pic I snapped of a diagram of the internal baffles:
It was heavy and the grip was very thick. The guy working the booth told me they’ve already gotten the weight down and thinned the grip. It has a couple of bolts on the front so that you can remove the baffles for cleaning. They anticipate it to ship by the end of the year, with a retail at about the $1,500 mark. Even if this thing winds up being vaporware, they’ll make a mint selling it as a movie prop. Speaking of, at the show, they had the Maxim 9 photoshopped into a bunch of classic movie scenes for t-shirts (Pulp Fiction, Dirty Harry and others). I decided to snag the Deadpool shirt before they got a cease and desist.
May 24th, 2016 at 7:11 pm
Looks like a taser X2.
May 24th, 2016 at 7:24 pm
I’ve never been tempted by a Deagle, but I swear that I am going to write to Santa and let him know what I have been a very very acceptably not particularly bad.
May 24th, 2016 at 8:43 pm
For $1500 plus a stamp, I kinda want one. Problem is that you can’t carry it in this state. I think. It’s one of those “depends on which lawyer you ask and what your local DA thinks.”
Also holy cow the press if you shoot some teenage with a great 6th grade yearbook picture merely trying to crack your skull with a rock.
May 25th, 2016 at 10:07 am
I will be eternally grateful to you for pointing out the Deadpool shirt. I totes wore mine yesterday.
May 25th, 2016 at 6:04 pm
Looks like the grip thickness may be due to rapid prototyping methods for production?
But, yeah, if people were worried about DAs getting cranky over handloaded ammunition being used in a self-defense situation, just wait until the Keyboard Lawyers start connecting the dots on these…
May 25th, 2016 at 9:53 pm
If I’m going to pack a gun that looks like it has an entry in a Shadowrun sourcebook, here’s how I’d make this more wiz, chummer:
1) 10mm Auto, because why not, this thing will have the mass to tame it
2) Work with Bob Boberg or license his patents to get an extra inch or so of effective barrel
3) Partner with Crimson Trace to put a laser module in that notch ahead of the trigger guard that fits the profile, and lasing red or green (or disco!) just below the suppressor.
4) Digicam option, because Bitch, I Operate, or Engraved and Hard Chrome because barbecue gun.
But screw it, I’ll buy one of every generation of these things like a Glock fanboy as long as they are not manufactured out of elemental suck and primal fail.