Palmetto State Armory presents a bunch of cool concept guns
Updated 9:10pm PT: Just learned PSA is actually allowing the public to view the poll results live here. At the end of the original article, I made a prediction about which concept guns would win, and I was right on the money (promise I didn't know the results were publicly viewable at the time!). That forum post also contains a good deal of detail on each of the concept guns.
Most gun people know PSA for making really affordable AR-15s. In recent years, they seem to be re-inventing their brand to become recognized for innovation with their original gun designs, like the JAKL and Dagger. These PSA originals are compelling because they aren't 1:1 facsimiles of existing guns, but cherrypick the best ideas floating around in the modern firearms design space.
PSA seems to be doubling down on this strategy because yesterday they announced a slew of "concept guns" they have been developing. In order to help them decide which guns they should bring to market, they're asking the public to vote for their top 3 guns.
Here's the lineup of the concept guns:
- PSA X5.7 (HK MP7 clone)
- 308 JAKL (FN Scar-L clone)
- Vuk (AKV-521 5.45mm clone)
- 22 Dagger (Dagger chambered in .22 LR)
- Thumper (37mm grenade launcher)
- Emerge Bolt Gun (sold as complete serialized firearm, or separately as parts; chambered in .308 and 6.5 Creedmoor; modeled after the time-honored Remington 700)
- 9mm JAKL (direct blowback action– not long piston; takes CZ Scorpion mags)
- 570 Pump Shotgun (likely inspired from the Mossberg 500 and Remington 870)
- Full Size Dagger L (Glock 17 Gen 3 clone)
- Sabre Enhanced M4 (it's a really tricked out AR-15)
- 10mm Dagger Carry
- Olcan (Tavor/L85 bullpup)
- 45 Tactical Dagger
I think people generally gravitate towards unobtainium clones so my prediction is the MP7, Scar-L, AKV-521 clones will win the contest (in that order).
Watch PSA's announcement below:
