I was thinking more like Whack-a-mole; with exactly the same outcome for the same reasons. They keep trying to whack the current iteration of JA and another one pops up but the stupidly try again. It 's the definition of insanity. When the mad mommies et all bought the stock (which I only vaguely remember) I bet JA folks laughed themselves all the way to the bank then downed a couple of beers and started it all over again.
Hell the angry karunts buyout probably paid the lawyer's fees and funded the new JA's. I think I'm most impressed that the feds managed to get them in to court and revoke the FFL. I think that might be a sign of the increasingly anti-gun climate as @bumthum pointed out. A sympathetic judge and a hungry A-USA fast tracked the paperwork kind of thing.
As each one of them caught a DV or SO charge. I think Red Jacket was just code for needing to go in to PC as soon as you hit lockup.
Yet we still can't get a straight Tec-9 or Tec-22 clone that's well made. I'm not against the idea of owning a pink JA-9, but if zombies companies are gonna roam the earth then I'd prefer Cobra or Intratec.
Sooo, I did a bit of online poking about. Acording to the ATF online records the FFL is held by JA Industries LLC, 249 Elliot Rd, Henderson NV and the FFL mailing address leads directly to a residence owned by -wait for it-
Right and the JAI from March was the 12th iteration since 1970 something and was owned by Paul Sr.
12 didn't even last two years! Started up again in 2020, investigated in 2021, FFL revoked in early 2022.
I don't hate you.
These SNS pistols are the BDSM of the firearms world... and some of us are into that kinky ZAMAK stuff. Seriously though, the low-tier gunshops in my area never last long enough to take in this kind of goodness used... so I am hoping someone will carry them. As I said though, even finding HiPoints is hard. There is a shop that carries new HiPoints, but they jack the price up (+$50 above market), I suspect there is a legit racist component because it's that kind of gunshop, but I'm not willing to pay a $50 "boomer tax" to get a JA-9... I've just never owned one and want to play around with it... a pink one, or maybe a $100 bill hydro-dip.
There's not a huge margin in low-end guns, which is why shops that have a good trade in higher margin guns often don't carry the cheap stuff. I've seen new HiPoint pistols well over $200 at gun shows recently. I'm charging 10% to a buddy of mine on a Yeet Cannon TB, and after shipping, he's gonna pay me just under $200 before sales tax.
The only larger retailer that still has HiPoints in stock is right around $189 on them, but who knows how long that will last.
Jimmy don't hydrodip. But he will do pink.
Anyone selling these yet? Price?
