I toured the IWI booth at the NRAAM.
First there are the Galil Ace models.
The Galil Aces seemed very well built, with a lot of nice features. The fit and finish are very impressive and there is no appreciable gap for the operating rod, yet it operates and functions incredibly smoothly for an AK variant. The safeties are ambidextrous and easy to use. There's a nice top rail on the rifles. Flush fit rail covers are nicely fit to the rails on each sides so that they look like regular handguards.
There are pistol models that come with and without the stabilizing arm brace, and you can do the paperwork to SBR them accordingly.
In addition to 7.62x39, there are also Galil Ace models available in 7.62x51 (7.62 mm NATO) caliber.
MSRPs range in the $1,700-1,800 range which make them on the high end for AK variant rifles. In the late 80s, prior to the bans, Galils had MSRP's at about $900. An inflation calculator shows that is $1,820 in today's dollars. Like the Australian AUG, they've stayed rather stable price-wise when taking inflation into account.
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I saw them and all I could think is SBR, without the paperwork... :-)
Yep, and they're handy little suckers indeed. With that being said, I'm not too sure how long companies are going to be able to poke the bear with the many "arm braces" now out there before there's one helluva BATFE backlash.
It does show the inanity of the SBR/SBS portion of the NFA quite nicely.
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