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Back in the day, ICS was a gun you would buy if no other company was making the model you wanted, or if you were going to gut it for the body anyway, or if you bought it at a paintball shop for a (relatively) obscene mark up.
They came up with some so-so gimmicks that never worked right (looking at you, quasi-mechanical MP5 burst mode), a split-gearbox that made sense for collectors but not skirmishable guns, and were generally a source of headaches.
Still, a lot of their externals were quite good (for the time, possibly still now) and were selectively sought after for that reason.
It was the only way to get an MP5 with a steel receiver/ parts for a long time, for example (excluding fancy people who could affor TW5s).
And I'll chime in on the CA hate; CAs that were "good" back in the day are still "good" today. They were a very different company.
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