honest owner review of Black Aces Tactical FD12 bullpup 12 gauge shotgun garbage & RIA VRBP100

 Wanting a 12 gauge bullpup, I made the mistake of jumping on a Black Aces Tactical FD12 when I saw it for $300. Since then the price now has come down even further at Palmetto State Armory further,which is about 50% of the original price which should tip off  anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together regarding the "quality"of this "weapon"of self destruction.

A more pleasant subject:

I recently paid about $450 w/tax for a demo, in-the-box with all accessories, Rock Island Armory imported VRBP100 and am completely & utterly ecstatic with it's comfortableness to shoot & performance.

& here isn't much more to add about it, except even more praise. It's a extremely well handling, very reliable, smooth to shoot, light of kick 12 gauge shotgun with a nice,crisp (but a bit heavy) trigger break with very little takeup which I plan to break in here shortly with 100s of dry firings.

Moving on to the FD12 "Shotty" (which is apparently what follower millennials & zoomers call shotguns these days in order to be fly, rad, bad,good, cool or WTFever. They also refer to going to the range & shooting as "having loads of fun" to which I respond "Typically I only get 'loads of fun' during sex, myself") 

When all was said and done, , with fees & taxes this giant, likely very uncomfortable buttplug cost me about $400. (my bottom hurts just thinking about it)

After a couple boxes of rounds, it is no longer operational in semiautomatic. things that have went horrible wrong with this almost brand new "weapon"

#1 it doesn't chamber any rounds anymore! I finally found the reason why not is       that the firing pin easily slides forward out of the face of the face of the                 bolt when it is feeding and going into battery, which traps the back of the             shell under the firing pin and keeps it from rising and feeding. to unjam it             one has to pull back on the bolt slightly and release the back of the shell.             And it's not an issue of the firing pin being stuck because the more I                     cleaned and lubed it, the worse it got. Only a very slightly declined barrel             will result in the firing pin sliding out and trapping the back of the shell.

#2 the bolt and magazine catch levers have become stiff and almost impossible          to engage or disengage even when cleaned and lubed. cleaning and lubing            them makes them work properly  for an average total of MAYBE twice, before        they go back to being stiff and  very hard to engage and disengage.

#3 admittedly if the firing pin isn't sticking out, it cycles like a dream.

 I just shot 20 rapid fire short brass 2.75"n shells out of an RIA VRBP-100, (which is cosmetically infinitely better looking than the FD12 monstrosity)which all ready had had about 20 flawless shells through it and recommend the Rock Island Armory import model.

it's obvious that BAT has spent lots of money under the table to "reviewers" all over the internet to lie say that the FD12 in quality ranks up with AND EVEN OVER in some reviews, the IWI Tavor TS12  in quality and value! It's total Bull Shit and I want to get the word out  that one is wasting one's money and perhaps safety (like I did) if one believes the hype and wastes her/his one of these FD12 turkeys.