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SHOT 2025 Sabre Lancet 50BMG

Palmetto State Armory is among the most creative and shameless firearms companies. They have come out with look-alike firearms of popular or historic firearms at half the cost. For example, the PSA Sabre Lancet is a clone of the legendary Barrett XM109 50BMG anti-material rifle.

PSA wants to gauge public interest in producing this rifle for real. PSA is asking fans to vote for their top 3 SHOT Show concept guns on their website. The top-voted guns will be developed into production guns, just like the original Jackl and the upcoming M5.7 pistol.

SHOT Show 2025 poll https://palmettostatearmory.com/shotshow2025

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SHOT 2025 JAKL 2.0

Palmetto State Armory is among the most creative and shameless firearms companies. They have come out with look-alike firearms of popular or historic firearms at half the cost. For example, the PSA JAKL is essentially a clone of the failed Magpul MASADA assault rifle which became the failed Bushmaster ACR.

The JACKL is a cosmetic modification of an AR upper on MilSpec lower. Since the JAKL’s release, a number of YouTubers have criticized the JACKL’s reliability. PSA is not unaware of these videos and user feedback.

To address some of the reliability issues, PSA created a custom lower which better optimizes the design of the JACKL upper. At this year’s SHOT Show, they released the Jackl 2

This is a design prototype and PSA wants to gauge public interest. PSA is asking fans to vote for their top 3 SHOT Show concept guns on their website. The top-voted guns will be developed into production guns, just like the original Jackl and the upcoming M5.7 pistol.

SHOT Show 2025 poll https://palmettostatearmory.com/shotshow2025

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SHOT 2025 PSA X9 & X5.7

Palmetto State Armory is among the most creative and shameless firearms companies. They have come out with look-alike firearms of popular or historic firearms at half the cost. Last year, PSA created a custom housing for their Rock 5.7 pistol to create the X5.7, a look-alike H&K MP7. This was a boon for MP7 fans because the MP7 isn’t available for civilian purchase in the US.

This year PSA is in the final production models of the X5.7. In response to popular requests, they created another MP7 look-alike utilizing their Dagger Glock-alike action. PSA is gauging interest in a production X9 by asking fans to vote for their favorite prototype.

SHOT Show 2025 poll https://palmettostatearmory.com/shotshow2025

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PSA 570 Pump Shotgun: SHOT Show

Palmetto State Armory are the Mad Scientists of gun makers, coming out with new AR and AK designs and recreations of guns. This year they brought out over a dozen prototypes including their first 12ga. pump shotgun. Much of this gun shares design features with the venerable Remmington 870. This will part of their new Build Your Own series of kit guns designed to be easily built and assembled at home without specialized gun smithing tools.

Notable in its design is the position of the bolt catch release which is in the form of a slide-switch above the trigger; similar in position to an AR. The receiver is cut and designed to attach RMR footprint red dots. The front sight post is compatible with GLOCK front sights.

PSA has too many ideas and but too little engineering time so they’re asking fans to vote for their favorite prototype guns that PSA should focus on. This means the 3 guns with the highest votes will be most likely to see testing and production later this year. Cast your vote at https://palmettostatearmory.com/

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PSA Jakl 308: SHOT Show

Palmetto State Armory is developing the JAKL, a gas/piston action Battle Rifle platform and showing off its versatility and modularity. On the surface it has MAGPUL Masada ACR vibes, which isn’t a bad thing (if you can divorce the ACR design from the mediocre rendition by Bushmaster and Remington before they went out of business). The ACR never reached its full potential. In any case the JAKL is a badass looking rifle.

The concept JAKL rifle they showed me SHOT Show 2024 was chambered in .308, with features found in rifles such as the FN SCAR, FAL, and the AR10. It does them one better by offering a non-reciprocating ambi charging handle and an 8-position gas setting to allow the rifle to cycle with suppressors and subsonic cartridges.

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New PSA Soviet Arms AKs

If Variety is the Spice of Life then Palmetto State Armory (PSA) is the howling Ghost Pepper of AKs. PSA used to be known as a retailer of budget AR components and AK kit guns build by small regional manufacturers but in the last few years, PSA has branched out into becoming its own legitimate gun brand. This year they’re debuting not just one or two new AK models, but a half dozen.

These new AK’s under their Soviet Arms brand span a range of historical AK like the Norinco Type 56 Chinese AK to to modern variants of AKMs and Kinkovs used by Russian special forces. PSA has long been known for making military and historical clone guns including Vietnam era AK’s and M-16’s and this year a new 5.56 chambered clone Stg 44!

If PSA is releasing a half-dozen different new AK variants wasn’t impressive enough, this same year they’re also releasing a similar number of new AR rifles under their Sabre brand. These AR’s will retail for under $1000 but come pre-installed with premium components like an ambi charging handle, 3.5lb trigger, and a low-profile hand guard. It’s going to be a busy year for PSA.

I end with this paradox: Is an AK clone of an AK clone still a clone?

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New PSA Sabre AR line

If Variety is the Spice of Life then Palmetto State Armory (PSA) is the 11 Herbs and Spices of US gun makers. PSA used to be known as a maker and retailer of budget AR components from small regional manufacturers but in the last few years has branched out into becoming its own legitimate gun brand. This year they’re debuting their new Sabre line of budget premium build ARs.

The Sabre ARs come factory pre-installed with upgrade components like Ambi selector switches, 3.5lb duty trigger, Ambi charging handle, and a tuned barrel nut that allows for an extremely low profile hand guard without the usual bolt tabs. It’s everything most custom build AR makers would drop into their ARs but the whole rifle is planned to have a street price under $1000!

PSA is releasing a half-dozen different variants. If that wasn’t impressive enough, this same year they’re also releasing a similar number of new AK rifles under their Soviet Arms brand. These are clones of historic and current model ComBlock AKs including clones of Chinese and Soviet Era rifles. They’re also releasing historical clones of the M16A1 and the Stg44. It’s going to be a busy year for PSA.

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Shot Show 2022: Palmetto State Armory

At the Palmetto State Armory booth, I got hands-on with Palmetto State Armory’s (PSA) newest versions of their Dagger; their “cheaper-than” Glock compatible striker-fired pistols. With a street-price half that of a Glock, their Dagger fits in well with PSA’s reputation for creating value-tier ARs and AK’s. This year they are also offering a more competition focused version with a RMR cut slide and a threaded barrel, for the same price (Approx $399). They say that eventually all of their Daggers will come with RMR cut slides standard.

We also got a look at the prototype of their “57 Rock”, which joins the FN Five-seveN, Ruger 57, and Kel-Tec’s P50 pistols utilizing the FN P90’s 5.7x28mm cartridge. It has much more appealing aesthetics of a modern striker-fired pistol despite its huge capacity of 23 rounds in a standard magazine.

I would love to test these myself but unfortunately, living in California with its inane “Handgun Roster” law (certified by then AG Kamala Harris), we can’t have nice things.