Hard to say what the actual street price will be until they've been on the market for a while. MSRP is currently listed as $939.99, but I don't know what Taurus's MSRP margins typically are compared to wholesale from distributors.
Not that there's a direct correlation, but the Kuna's MSRP is $1330. I spent some time trying to find one as they were in short supply. When I finally found mine, I paid $1100, cash OTD, from a dealer at a local gun show (he had the only one in the building) and was happy to have it. When we were discussing the sale price he was reluctant to deal and made the comment that they were hard to get. I had also been talking to another dealer that I had bought from several times, and was on his contact list for for several weeks for when he got one in. He had also told me he had some ordered but they were almost impossible to find. So it's hard to say what the price would have been if there had been one on every table in the building.... Nonetheless, that price is roughly 17% lower than MSRP. So, again, not apples to apples, but using those rough numbers could indicate that the street price for the RPC could conceivably end up somewhere in the $700 - $800 price range.
Is that an appropriate price for the gun? That's a decision perspective buyers will have to make. For the feature set, and IF it proves to be reliable and durable, it could represent a good overall value for the money. Personally, I'm not really a "for the money" type of buyer, so it's highly doubtful that I'd buy one. Having a Kuna, a Scorpion, and an AK-V, I just don't have a pressing need for another PCC/PDW type of thing. But, for someone wanting to get their first, and that is price sensitive, it could be a good gun. I predict they will sell plenty of them. After all, Taurus has never been known as a premium manufacturer, and their reputation is as
@PieterCoetzee said above. And yet, I see people looking at, and buying their guns at every gun show I attend. And they've been in business for a long time, so I think they have a handle on their market, and have a business model built around it.
Innovation and new designs is always good. And competition is good for the consumer, both in driving innovation, and controlling pricing. So, even if a product doesn't interest me, I still see it as being good for the gun world in general.
