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I was just chatting with someone about the decision Colt made to stop selling ARs to civilians. He lives back east and he shoots recreationally. He said he was unusual among his friends because he only owns one AR-style rifle. Most of them own several.

He also said that most avid shooters never buy a whole AR - that's for noobs. The AR pattern rifle is apparently the Lego of the gun world. They buy the $80 lower receivers and build-to-suit the rest from parts. He knows one guy who has 100 of the lowers in his garage and he puts them together on the friends and family program for as little as $300 in parts. Tons of Youtubes showing the assembly, so that's doable for a noob, too. (according to him)

He also said it was the competition that basically triggered Colt's withdrawal from the civilian market. Why pay the retail price of $900 for a Colt when you can build a clone for half?
 

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I was just chatting with someone about the decision Colt made to stop selling ARs to civilians. He lives back east and he shoots recreationally. He said he was unusual among his friends because he only owns one AR-style rifle. Most of them own several.

He also said that most avid shooters never buy a whole AR - that's for noobs. The AR pattern rifle is apparently the Lego of the gun world. They buy the $80 lower receivers and build-to-suit the rest from parts. He knows one guy who has 100 of the lowers in his garage and he puts them together on the friends and family program for as little as $300 in parts. Tons of Youtubes showing the assembly, so that's doable for a noob, too. (according to him)

He also said it was the competition that basically triggered Colt's withdrawal from the civilian market. Why pay the retail price of $900 for a Colt when you can build a clone for half?
Well, Colt said in their statement about this that the decision was based on market saturation.
 

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pretty cool how he played dress up for the video! do you dress up like a call of duty character when you fondle your guns?
 
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pretty cool how he played dress up for the video! do you dress up like a call of duty character when you fondle your guns?
Send him to Afghanistan where he actually needs his gunz.

But those guys just like costume role play, not the real thing.

Or pick soft targets like school children, after they get bored shooting at paper and tin cans.
 

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The home builders are getting closer. One designer is recommending a 3-D printer that only costs $200.

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The home builders are getting closer. One designer is recommending a 3-D printer that only costs $200.

Crealty3D Ender-3 3D Printer on Amazon


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curious about the NRA’s stance on homemade firearms. On one hand its big for the 2A on the other it can have a big impact on the business side of the industry who’s bidding they do.
 

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Even if the NRA is so inclined, it's highly doubtful they have any significant influence over this progression.

At some point these guys are going to do their own designs, specific to their build process. I don't know anything about the engineering involved, but it's not hard to imagine these guys eventually getting to the disposable gun, one that isn't even designed to be reloaded. You only load it once, so there's no swapping magazines nor any need for the build quality to hold up for 100 rounds let alone 10,000. They'd be designed to shoot it out one time and then drop it. The police can recover the gun but so what? That can't tell where anything came from or tie it to the shooter.

Not just handguns, either. They've already been doing rifle and subgun receivers. I just saw a vid posted by a kid who clearly doesn't know how to handle an AR - but he was capable of printing a bump stock for that AR in his garage. And show that the damn thing works. They're printing shoulder stocks for handguns that effectively turn them into an UZi-style subgun.

The morality of the trend is separate from the likelihood of it's progression. These guys aren't even doing it because they want a $5 Glock frame. They're doing it because they can and because it's considered transgressive and because it triggers the gun grabbers.
 
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Send him to Afghanistan where he actually needs his gunz.

But those guys just like costume role play, not the real thing.

Or pick soft targets like school children, after they get bored shooting at paper and tin cans.

But those guys just like costume role play, not the real thing.


He is as real as it gets - active duty , he risks his life so you can post your criticisms all day on this forum .
 
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went to the local gun range with my son, his friend, and his dad. One of the rifles we shot was his CA legal AR. He removed the flash hider, changed the grip, and made his stock non adjustable. No bullet button required, just a nice push button mag release. Meanwhile an illegal ar has a flash hider, pistol grip, and adjustable stock with a bullet button making it harder and slower to release the mag (reload).

Great laws we have.
 
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