USFA Zip 22: How a Garbage Gun Destroyed A Good Company
This video delves into the downfall of USFA, a company renowned for its high-quality Single Action Army reproductions. The narrative centers on the disastrous USFA Zip 22 project, an ambitious but flawed attempt at a modular, inexpensive pistol. The description highlights the Zip 22's critical design flaws, including the lack of an extractor/ejector and its consumable polymer bolt, which led to notorious unreliability. The video explains how the immense cost of developing molds for the Zip 22, coupled with the sell-off of traditional manufacturing equipment, crippled USFA financially, leading to its dissolution.












