Palmetto State Armory announced their newest gun, this time a handgun based on a Gen 3 Glock 19. This gun is being called The Dagger, and is chambered in 9mm with a 15-round capacity.
When I visited the Palmetto State Armory facilities a few months back, we actually saw this getting worked on but were sworn to secrecy.
I’m glad that PSA has announced this new release so I can finally start to talk about it. They’re saying that this new pistol will be available in March, 2020 and will retail for $299.99. Street price is likely to be lower than that meaning that this will be an ultra-affordable concealed carry gun with a 15-round capacity.
Announced updates to this pistol will be a suppressor ready model as well as an optic-ready model to follow.
According to the PSA rep, the lower is molded on their own equipment, and it’s their own design–making this a 100% PSA pistol, with, of course, Gen 3 Glock internals.
And that’s really the beauty of this whole endeavor — because they manufacture a good portion of this 9mm gun themselves (minus the internals, sights, and similar items), they can keep the price down on the ground, which will likely help them sell a lot of handguns.
What’s amazing to me is that it has stainless steel internal components, like the guide rod, at an incredibly affordable price while other guns in this price range can’t achieve similar quality parts status.
Of course, we haven’t shot it yet so time will tell how it performs and how reliable it is.
Make sure you stay tuned as I’m sure I’ll be getting one of these Daggers at some point in the near future to do a review on.
What is the final price on this 9mm and realease date
The MSRP is set to $299, but we’re not entirely sure if it’ll be lower than that at first or if we’ll be paying retail since they’ll be selling on their website. Release date is sometime in March if I’m not mistaken, but I don’t have an exact date.
Josh
If one buys one of these, can they later buy an after market threaded barrel of the same Glock generation; or perhaps even a Glock 17 threaded barrel to be used in this model Dagger?
The Dagger can take Glock 17 mags I assume (I’m not in the know of Glock specs and info as I don’t own any).
I would like to buy one of these; may hold out for reviews, but hopefully it is a reliable product.
Thanks.
We don’t know know too much as of yet, but we are going to do everything we can to buy one of the first pistols released so we can do a review on it. Stay tuned for that.
Josh
Thanks for the reply.
I would beg interested in your tests and check back later.
If I recall, there is going to be a $350-400 version with a threaded barrel and suppressor height sights.
Thanks for the reply.
I saw the coverage on the dagger and saw that there would be a version, threaded barrel and rmr cut for a little more.
Though after tax, transfer fee, and background check fees, I’d rather save as much as possible.
Later on i would like the option to get a threaded barrel later.
Super excited for the dagger’s release. Affordable, reliable, not basic or boring, quality handgun. Cant wait for it to be my EDC.
We will be doing our own testing, although I presume there won’t be many differences in reliability and accuracy between the dagger and a gen 3 Glock since that is basically what it is except for trigger and frame shape.
Has gun been pushed back due to corona? It’s end of March
Yeah I’m not entirely sure. It does seem to be pushed back. Industry chatter tells us at some point in April or May, but that’s not coming from the horse’s mouth. As soon as I hear anything solid I’ll update.
Josh
It’s easy to copy someone else’s hard work and sell it cheap. They didn’t have to pay for all the r&d. Isn’t this what China has been doing? Reproducing someone else’s work?