Wonder if the writer knows it's not an assault weapon and was never really banned?

So they never made any Tec9s after the AWB ended.

Which makes this articles title kind of pointless.

All the AWB banned was certain cosmetic features on guns. The AWB was all about how a gun looked, not how it functioned. The manufacturers made the needed cosmetic changes and changed the names of the guns and continued to sell the same guns. The anti-gun folks screamed that the makers were evading the law, but actually they were complying exactly with the letter of the law.

...would the outcome have been different?

I wish more criminals used TEC-9s instead of Glocks... TEC-9s are much more difficult to conceal.

This is a TEC-9 which was banned by the so-called Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.


This the AB-10, which was made by the same company during the AWB, until the company folded.
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Internal workings are exactly the same in both guns. Both take the same magazines. Yet one was AWB illegal and the other was AWB legal.

BTW-The AB stands for "After Ban". 10, of course, is the next number after 9, hence the name "AB-10"

that I need a Tec-9 in my collection.

I don't want or need a handgun whose only distinguishing characteristic is that it is large and unwieldy. It's a handgun that looks like a submachine gun but isn't. The Tec-9's days were numbered even before the AWB.

production. I have never seen the logic of such pistols either, other maybe mall ninja "tacticool" or novelty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdynamic_MP-9

There must be a few different variations on the model...interesting.

What do I win?