Despite what I have read (mostly negative feedback) regarding this "cheap" brand I decided to take the plunge and get one. I headed south to Flint in Fall River, MA as they were the only ones with any stock. Upon arrival, they did not have the handguns in stock but had this carbine. For less than $300.00 dollars I picked one up.
In summary, I had a blast with it. I put 300 rounds of PMC and Blazers through it and it handled them beautifully. No failures or jams at all. I finished the range stint with pain on my thumb from loading the magazine 
The recoil was minimal and despite the windage being wrong on the iron sights once I made the corrections it was dead on!! at least at 50yds (I did not try 100yds at Braintree). It is not a light gun in my opinion but looks awesome with the covers and rails that it comes with. Some of the metal covers look like they were painted with a sharpie but I guess I could re-paint them down the road. I am heading out to the range later today to play with it some more. I ventured with field stripping it and although it was unusual it really was not too bad. Lots of sharp edges amongst the parts but no biggie, just be careful if you have one. I have read many many opinions on line for this gun and the majority are bad. I have re-read most of those and found them to be from people that dont own one. For now I am happy with this purchase. 300 rounds right out of the box and no single feed or fire issue from a "blow back style long gun" is very good in my book. I own another .40 cal gun so I can share ammo 
I will update later with some more observations and hopefully some pictures LOL 
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. I don't normally shoot with a rifle stand and was shooting off-hand this time. I find the peep hole sights to be adequate, my only nit is that I had to adjust the rear windage a good deal to the left as it was shooting to the right. I believe that the barrel is a 16". It is not the prettiest gun there is but it seems to work well.
