Recommendations on SKS

[u/Western_Wish4280]

Hi, hope youre all doing great.

My last post here was asking on advice on whether to buy my buddy's sks or not. Apparently the sale didnt go through and he got an outrageous offer for it and sold it off.

Ever since that, i have been looking to get my hands on an sks.

Dont care if it gets banned anymore. A classic canadian staple and ill be buying it regardless only if i can get my hands on one.

Have been out of luck in New brunswick trying to get one for sub 1200$ . Was looking at firearms outlet and saw multiple still in stock.

Need recommendations/ reviews of the ones you guys and gals already own and the ones to STAY AWAY FROM BUYING.

Even if do get one, itll be very hard to check it in person as ill be trying to get her shipped all around canada. So please guide me on where to buy(already know gunpost and townpost) and which model to buy.

Thanks a ton in advance.

P.S: was willing to get the ATI stock one in the picture as a last resort.

[u/Norwest_Shooter]

Definitely buy one but stay away from FOC

[u/Western_Wish4280 → u/Norwest_Shooter]

Please elaborate. They seem to have nice discounts and alot on stock tho

[u/Norwest_Shooter → u/Western_Wish4280]

They are just a very unethical company. This is beaten to death on pretty much every thread mentioning them, but basically, they had a data breach, was informed by visa about it, and chose to hide it and cover it up and launch a sale to take advantage of the panic buying when the handgun freeze was happening. Did nothing to help their customers after all their personal information was compromised. Have never taken any accountability for it. I always say, data breaches happen, but how you deal with them is what matters and they chose to willingly screw over their customers for profit. They also refused to give people transfer numbers when people were trying to buy handguns before the freeze and some transfers were never initiated, saying that giving transfer numbers out was illegal, screwing people over for essentially the rest of their lives. Combine that with very inconsistent and poor customer service, and outright lies, it’s not a gun store people should be doing business with.

[u/CLIMAXJONES → u/Norwest_Shooter]

Sorry to hear about your experience with them . I haven’t bought from them since 2023 so I was speaking from my own experience. The beauty of the free market is you can choose to support them or not . I do understand why that would sour ur opinion on them ! I have beef with my local gunship for scummy moves like that

[u/Norwest_Shooter → u/CLIMAXJONES]

To add to that I’d say before all that I never had a good experience. Neutral at best. Probably the best order I had from them I bought a handgun, and they never sent a tracking number. It just showed up one day. Sure who doesn’t like surprise guns showing up. But that’s like such a basic thing to screw up and every other transaction was much worse than that.