If some think the Silver is a ‘better shotgun’ than the new A5, then they’ll have to acknowledge the Gold being even better than the Silver…..since the Silver is just the Gold downgraded and at a lower price point. . The new A5s vs the Silver/Gold is oranges to grapefruits, anyway. Gas and inertia have different qualities for design and function. The new A5 has some ‘improvements’ in internals/designs over some other inertia guns, while also not over-complicating things to keep the speedload feature. My only real gripe is the receiver length….its looong. EVERYONE has issues trying to maintain quality these days. The folks making guns these days are NOT our grandfathers (or the old, European craftsmen). They’re CNC machines with assemblers, efficiency managers, and bean counters at every step trying to lean out everything. That’s counterintuitive to making guns like they used to be in quality.