MasterPiece Arms MPA935SST Pistol
MasterPiece Arms will show a new 9mm pistol at the 2014 SHOT Show: the MPA935SST.
The MPA935SST will have a threaded 8″ barrel for the easy addition of a sound suppressor. One 30-round magazine ships with the pistol.
An angled foregrip ships on the gun, and the pistol has three short accessory rails for adding additional gear. Adjustable front and rear sights are standard, but an aftermarket optic or reflex sight can be added to the gun.
The MSRP on this gun is $675.99. Since it is a pistol, no NFA rules apply. The company will sell a version of this gun with a buttstock. That will be classified as a short barrel rifle, or SBR. NFA will apply to that gun. It will retail for $785.99.
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Just a note for truth in advertising, the pistol with the folding stock shown right above the statement "Since it is a pistol, no NFA rules apply" actually *would* have NFA rules apply due to the folding stock. (see AR pistols, arm brace stocks, etc).
Possible obvious, but that statement applies to your first picture only, not the second :)
So this is a HUGE home run. I came back to this post after seeing it earlier just to say how excited I am for this exact arrangement of pistol and features.
There is a gap in the market here, that nobody seems to be recognizing. When you design a "big pistol" such as this, like an Uzi clone, 9mm AR or Brugger & Thomet TP9, there is one big question: Does the magazine go in the grip of the frame, or in a separate mag well?
Putting it in a mag well allows you to have an angled grip for your hand, and you use normal SMG mags at a 90 degree angle to the receiver. Putting it in the grip means you probably need a pistol-centric magazine like the Glock "stick mag." Also, mag-wells which take Glock mags are harder to manipulate. Just ask anyone who owns an AR platform with Double Diamond AR lower, and has to do mag changes with Glock mags at the awkward backward angle.
Putting it in the grip is the best choice. It allows overall length to be kept to a minimum.
I also sincerely hope this takes the modified Uzi mags which are so ubiquitous.
Secondly, I think more people will be searching for a PDW-style solution for car travel, and nobody seems to be addressing it. There is a particular need for a weapon which falls between a full-size handgun and a carbine. This should logically be filled by a pistol caliber.
"But, but, but... what does it do that a Glock 17 doesn't do????!!!" Well, this weapon would have accessory rails, for both a weapon light and red-dot. (The above pistol does.) A Glock does not.
And it would have stocks which are lightweight, fold, and create an overall length to fit between a plastic cupholder and a passenger seat. Imagine a 3-ring binder with a fold-out 9mm SMG inside, tucked in your briefcase. Try that with your AR-15!!
At the moment, people are putting their AR 5.56 "pistols" in the front seat of the car, managing both the extended buffer tube as well as the huge blast from an unsuppressed rifle round. What they really want is a fold-up carbine in a pistol caliber, at less than 13 inches overall length. And with 9mm +p rounds really kicking ass these days, it is a logical choice.
Alternate choices would of course be .40 and .45, but I'm glad to see these available.
I was in the market for basically this exact gun about 6 months ago, and almost settled on buying a Brugger & Thomet TP9 (at $1200+ used) and then making an SBR. The lack of an aftermarket stock options when I chose to pay the tax stamp (and the total cost of probably $1600+) deterred me. At $750 street price -- about 200 less than buying a new plain Glock 17 -- it looks like I will be picking one of these up.
(They need to do something about that name though: MPA935SST? Really? Dang.)