P45 list appears to be $819, so I'm expecting a street price in the $600-700 range at best.
Ouch. That's kinda pricey. I know GP are good firearms but being new to the USA it may be a hard sell. Especially with the market now flooded with good quality, and less expensive, Turkish firearms.
The way I see it...and this is from someone who has cut, ground, and welded on firearms, owns the better part of a dozen 9mm's, and only two have cost more than $350...$390 for a CC gun (P290RS) and a ~$500 trade on a Jericho 941...
Anyway, the way I see if- the cheaper guns are either like muscle cars, or kit cars. Either indestructable but crude, or well-engineered but flimsy. Something like SAR is a bleep fine balance.
The GP's...and I never believed this, nor would have believed, when I bought one of their guns...for $350...on a whim: They're the performance of a Ferrari with Toyota reliability. They are, for any reasonable intent of purpose, not a polymer gun like a Glock...not even a polymer gun like an H&K...who makes 1000-2000 dollar guns that are still just plastic frames with small plastic inserts molded into them. It's a small steel reciever, of the highest quality alloy I think you'll find in any mass-produced firearm. With a tennifer coating. Barring the plastic handle of the gun being shot by another gun, you're not going to break it. And even then...it's
intended to be a replaceable part, though I'm not optimistic about the ease of obtaining that part.
Anyway...people pay over a grand for 2011's all day long. These guns are a similar concept and well-outperform their price compeition. Looking at you, CZ Shadow and Witness Stock...
