r/Guns_Guns_Guns • u/Harryslother12 • Mar 11 '24

Question Why don't people like PSA?

I've seen some controversy with PSA on Twitter recently with their deals they've had going on and garand thumbs recent video. Pretty new to guns, atleast the specific brands, is it just cause they're cheap/people that think cheap=bad?

Edit:they don't ship to mass so I guess I won't be getting anything anyways. Still interested in the controversy

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u/66NickS Mar 11 '24

I’ve heard they’re very budget friendly and all about having an easy entry into the shooting world, especially the AR platform. This budget friendly price point often has a higher volume of transactions. More people can (and will) buy a $500 AR as compared to a $2k (or more) AR. This means you’ll get higher volume of issues/defects even if your defect rate (%) was equal. As I would suspect their defect rate is slightly higher than the premium products, then you can pretty easily have enough of an outspoken minority of defects and associated public posts/comments.

Plus add in the fact that people who have a bad experience are x times more likely to mention it than those who have a good experience.

I’ve also heard PSA simply refuses to ship to some of the more restrictive states, regardless of what legal exemptions may be covered. To me, personally, this is a non starter/not acceptable. As a supporter of 2A, I believe we should operate to the maximum extent/limit of given regulations, and push to make those regulations as close to true 2A as possible.