Kevin, how many meth heads do you think have $2800 to drop on one of these? Or how many guys with one will leave it sitting out for a methhead to steal it? I don't expect enough of these to sell to ever have one used in a crime. My prediction...
I disagree with you . . . only because many, many drug addicts (especially meth addicts, but heroin addicts also) turn to drug dealing to support their habits.
There is tons and tons of money that gets moved by drug dealers.
Aquiring one of these toys is not an insurmountable problem for a meth-head drug dealer.
Toys like these are attractive to the drug underworld, as it conveys "street cred", which simply means that the dealer is a "bad ###" who is not to be "f----ked with". Drug dealers tend to like extreme toys and accessories. Things like fancy sports cars, pet leopards (and other big cats), and fancy guns . . . many of which become gold-plated and covered in diamonds and/or rhinestones. A gun like this drum-fed shotgun would be highly sought after by many drug dealers . . . and would probably get "blinged out" to the point where it would resemble an obscene Christmas tree.
I was very familiar with the drug underworld, as I was a paramedic and EMT in downtown Miami.
I also worked in many other parts of South Florida for over a decade. We worked closely with the police, we handled overdoses, and we Baker-Acted (treated without consent) crazy people who were dangerous to themselves and others because of their drug use.
I'm not pulling my opinions out of my ###.
Here is an example of what I mean. Sombody took a perfectly good Sig Sauer, and raped this poor, defensless gun . . . and turned it into a lethal Christmas tree ornament.
In fairness, though, there may be a very narrow niche for such a gun.
A paramedic friend of mine had a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum revolver (it may have been a Model 19) pimped out with gold, silver, fillagree engravings, rhinstones, emeralds, and so on.
He also had the gun fitted with a Magna lock, which only allows the gun to fire if the shooter is wearing a special, magnetic ring.
His logic--which is perverse and twisted, but plausible--is that he'll use this gun to confront a home invader.
If he gets killed by the invader, he's hoping that the scumbag will pick up the blinged-out pimp gun. If this scumbag tries to threaten his wife with tbe gun . . . well, the gun won't fire without the ring.
His wife then wastes the scumbag with her gun.
Also, the blinged-out gun is easy to see under low-light conditions, so an assailant with her husband's gun tells her right away that her husband is out of the picture, so she can shoot all she wants with less fear of accidentally hitting him (I say "less fear" as--I imagine--the husband might be merely wounded).
I think my friend's mind is rather twisted, but there is a certain logic behind his arguments.
Guns are, certainly, high-priority items for any home invader . . . and a blinged-out pimp gun would be a "good score".
