Mega Rad Gun Thread

[Anakin Soywalker]

I know a guy with a couple of the stag left-handed uppers. He likes them a lot on his suppressed SBRs. Personally I like ARs that can take any regular BCG just in case I need to swap it out. I'd rather switch to a lower back pressure suppressor or tune the gun with parts that can be interchanged with off the shelf milspec parts if needed(adjustable BCG, suppressor optimized gas tube, etc.). That's just me, if you aren't worried about scavenging BCGs in [Insert fantasy scenario] they're fine.

One thing to keep in mind is that the left side ejection cover flips up so optic mounts with large protrusions can push it down and potentially interfere with ejection. The guy I know exclusively uses low profile scalarworks QD mounts on his.

I'm really big into hypothetical scenarios with miniscule chances of ever happening, and I inform my gunsooming choices to these scenarios. Thanks for the input, not sure what I'll do yet.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

The AR is very ambi friendly already. I shoot left handed for reasons I won't get into, and never felt like I needed a lefty ejecting gun. If an AR is gassed really badly no matter how you shoot it it'll suck ass. The first one I shot was way over gassed and it made me hate the platform until I realized it wasn't all of them.

 

[Duke Nukem]

AKs and FALs are all but dead, the former bottlenecked by US production not fully committing to the bit and the latter because IMBEL is no longer sending us magazines in any reasonable quantity. HK may eventually make something of worth on US soil but only time will tell.
There has been no better time to build an AR-15 because you can make absolutely anything you want no matter your desire.
Milsurp is a radioactive market due to influence from YouTube historians, camouflage is disappearing for TikTok/LARP and new production is often cringe bullshit.

Imported pistols are where we're really going to suffer, but the US-made Glock clones and 1911s/2011s will pick up the slack.

Yeah it's looking pretty grim for anything that isn't an AR, but I understand why someone would go for one of those instead. But I'm largely satisfied with what I have right now and it's more important to get decent with what you already own anyway than it is to concern yourself with acquiring more of anything.

Most of those GunTuber types are more concerned with trying to sell you on the latest gizmo than giving you solid and practical advice on basic setups or tactics or whatnot. By the way I have dildo bayonets and testicle grips available for the AR for sale, limited time only! Buy yours today!

 

[Janki's Mom]

In my state face to face sales are legal so long as you don't knowingly sell to a prohibited person.
I can theoretically get a table at the fun show and sell chunks of my collection.
Semi dangerous proposition in the current environment though.

Deep in the heart of Texas!

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Yeah it's looking pretty grim for anything that isn't an AR, but I understand why someone would go for one of those instead. But I'm largely satisfied with what I have right now and it's more important to get decent with what you already own anyway than it is to concern yourself with acquiring more of anything.

Speaking of this, I've been supplementing my pistol dry fire with shotgun reloading practice lately - I never really had a reason to work on it with the 930 since I use that mostly for clay shooting, but ever since I started doing drills with the A300 (festooned with Velcro loops on the receiver and stock for shotgun cards), I've been working on getting faster, both topping off and load/shoot from empty.

Also, these snap caps are fucking fantastic if you want to do that sort of thing. The weight/feel/handling is pretty realistic (unlike the aluminum or clear plastic ones in most gun shops) and they aren't crazy overpriced ($4 per if you buy the 9-packs).

 

[BikeLock]

HK may eventually make something of worth on US soil

Hey now, My HK45 has been flawless, and I suspect other HK USA pistols, as well.

But yeah, I think its time for HK to make us something like the UMP stateside...

 

[DocAwe]

Speaking of this, I've been supplementing my pistol dry fire with shotgun reloading practice lately - I never really had a reason to work on it with the 930 since I use that mostly for clay shooting, but ever since I started doing drills with the A300 (festooned with Velcro loops on the receiver and stock for shotgun cards), I've been working on getting faster, both topping off and load/shoot from empty.

Also, these snap caps are fucking fantastic if you want to do that sort of thing. The weight/feel/handling is pretty realistic (unlike the aluminum or clear plastic ones in most gun shops) and they aren't crazy overpriced ($4 per if you buy the 9-packs).

I don't have any pics right now but I made my own snap caps.
Just got some fired hulls, knocked out the spent primers, hammered a dowel rod into it then cut and sanded to proper length.
I didn't do anything to fill the empty primer holes as I just mostly use them to practice loading/unloading but I imagine I could fill them in with something like hot glue.
I do have some nicer factory made ones but they were expensive.
St Action PRO

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

I don't have any pics right now but I made my own snap caps.
Just got some fired hulls, knocked out the spent primers, hammered a dowel rod into it then cut and sanded to proper length.
I didn't do anything to fill the empty primer holes as I just mostly use them to practice loading/unloading but I imagine I could fill them in with something like hot glue.
I do have some nicer factory made ones but they were expensive.
St Action PRO

I had intended to take that route as well, but when I found the B's Dummies at what I felt was a very fair price, I held off until they arrived and once they did, I was fine with what I had. Also, they seem like a cool mom n pop operation.

 

[888Flux]

Still our goy right?

The real question is why we are importing ammo for fuck sake.

Domestic production is constrained by miles of red tape to get any new plant operational. Once deregulation happens this will no longer be an issue.

 

[Samhain]

I might have to pick up some of those B's Snap Caps. I've been disappointed with other snap caps because they never replicate the weight of real rounds.

 

[The Dude]

Hey now, My HK45 has been flawless, and I suspect other HK USA pistols, as well.

But yeah, I think its time for HK to make us something like the UMP stateside...

I want HK's SCAR-alike, the rifle they started designing because of the issues reported with the G36. It's a similar operating system as the HK416, but the receivers are more like the SCAR or CZ Bren than an AR. I think it's called the HK433 or something like that, and it looks like a really sweet rifle. They designed it to compete to replace the G36 with the Bundeswehr IIRC. Much like the SCAR and Bren, it's a modular rifle that you can swap barrels on for different lengths and calibers, like .300Blk., and it's optimized for suppressor use. If they started making those in the US I'd seriously consider getting one, even though I'm fairly set for modern defensive weapons.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

The real question is why we are importing ammo for fuck sake.

Domestic production is constrained by miles of red tape to get any new plant operational. Once deregulation happens this will no longer be an issue.

Imports basically made money on the side for military/LE production lines in other countries, I think it was a bigger deal back when full auto was more common since buying in bulk didn't break the bank. Magtech, to their credit, is still the best to buy for reloading, as opposed to fireforming Starline brass.
Domestic production is hampered by reliance on "remanufactured" ammunition(for those that don't know, this is the same process as standard production but using once-fired brass) for the sake of low costs as opposed to buying new Starline brass or making their own cases. Similar to US AK production, nobody* wants to commit to the bit.

*Steinel is doing great so far, but I haven't tried their stuff personally.

 

[AGPinochet]

Repeating Darne style shotgun


Flapper locked pistol design by the guy who designed the sight rib for the Colt ACR

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210262746A1

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210278158A1

And here are some drawings for a gun that works kind of like a Jatimatic by Talon Armament (an AR assembler whose claim to fame is the "Clench Grip" moldable AR grip)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11092402B2

VSS Prototype







They got weaponlight armor now, Dark Matter Concepts CMD. Not as stupid as it looks, apparently does a good job of keeping carbon off the lense. They make them primarily for rifle lights and the X300 model is a prototype


Prolific P365 accessory manufacturer Fdez Werx makes a replacement modified brass deflector for MCS series rifles that turn the guns into pseudo downward ejectors, it even has an M-lok slot.


Beretta M12 With a B&T modernization kit


Bullpup Mosin, was at one point in use with Russian Internal troops


Romanian made AK's with US import markings in a Swiss Gunshop that have folding charging handles


Sig 553 with a Gas Mask/Visor stock


LS06 in Myanmar


8 Days ago Maztech posted on Instagram saying that their FCS/LRF was officially in Production, assuming they don't put anything out beforehand it wouldn't be unexpected for Magpul to talk about it an NRAAM


The Personal Beretta 84 of Augusto Pinochet. It went missing from his earthly possessions presumably sometime between his Death in 2006 and it being reported missing in 2014. It was used in a gang shooting on April 9th, 2023 when it was recovered by Police. This isn't a fake either, Chilean police matched the serial numbers


Found a guy on youtube really big into boats and cars and stuff that also owns what he describes as 1 of 4 mechanically unique Winchester 1894's that have been modified by a long dead guy to be able to unloaded by vomiting unfired cartridges out of the loading gate

 

[AGPinochet]

AO-26 integrally suppressed smg using heavily loaded 7.62x25



Cops with a Tankgewehr


An Australian cop recently got pinched for Illegal gun manufacture, turned his home into a factory in order to supply gangs

https://archive.ph/YgDdd

AEK-971 with Russian Interior Ministry




Malawian soldier with a Sterling


You know that "Diablo" muzzle loading 12 gauge pistol thingy, well the company that makes it "American Gun Craft" are working on a revolving 12 gauge pepperbox with standalone and underbarrel mounting capability


Found an upstart manufacturer that is making Longstroke AR's

https://www.blecherllc.com/

FN Was recently showing off this very ugly SCAR 7.62x39 conversion at some Euro arms show


I find it kind of strange that they look to have designed a propietary magazine design when at 2015 SHOT they had a model that fed from AK mags, and the only reason I can think of that you would want a 7.62x39 chambering but not with AK mags is if you're french GIGN but I vaguely remember reading somewhere that they weren't doing 7.62x39 anymore



Recently while reading the book "Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879" (1979) (there are those who claim that the book is partially bullshit, But that isn't relevant to the what I am about to discuss) I found on page 67 a footnote that says the following (Italics added by me)

"Early Japanese Guns were astonishingly well made. Some of them were used in war for two for three generations in sixteenth and seventeenth century Japan. They were then retired to government storehouses for a couple of centuries- and then, when Japan resumed the active use of firearms after Commodore Perry, they were brought out and converted to percussion rifles for the new national army. They performed admirably. Still later, at the time of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904, some thousands of them were converted a second time, to bolt action rifles. The American Gun Expert Robert Kimbrough has written of the twice-retooled tanegashima "The Author has seen bolt-action rifles which carried names and dates from the mid-1600's, and weapons so converted were for use with modern power without blowing up!". No Higher Praise can be given the workmanship of the old Japanese Craftsmen.

The Source for Kimbrough's quotations is "Japanese Firearms" Pages 464-465

I Initially was astonished at such a claim and thought, this must be a result of mistranslated documents or nonfunctional forgeries created by shady antique dealers , but no, such conversions did in fact take place but I can find nothing about them being converted in the name of military service (which the text seems to imply to me)



The examples I was able to find images of are all in 11mm Murata ( a blackpowder cartridge) but Kimbrough said the guns he observed used "Modern Powder" (I take that to mean smokeless) and Japan's first indigenous smokeless powder cartridge was the 8x53mm R Murata (after being modified into such after being introduced as a black powder catridge) introduced in 1889, which fits the supposed Russo-Japanese war timeline.
@Club Sandwich
This is probably stretching the limits of your knowledge but you woudn't happen to be able to shed any light on these conversions would you?

Just Bizzare, Imagine a Brown Bess getting converted into a .308 and used in the Gulf War

Also, While I have your attention, I was wondering if you had any knowledge in machinegun design theory relating to top covers/feed mechanisms. Most LMG's made after 1945 use a system at least inspired by the MG42, with a nub on the bolt carrier that interfaces with a squiggly track actuating the feed pawls while designs like the Negev, LAMG and probably one or two others have (partially true with the latest LAMG's but the "extended" flip to side models don't have any feed guts outside of the original area and I assume the design change was to due with LPVO/Clip on mounting) have comparitively short top covers and have feed mechanisms contained roughly in the area of where the belt box is located. Is there any particular reason why this mechanism wasn't more popular in the past? Besides a "It's good enough" attitude and less of a concern regarding optics mounting?


Russian guy made his own Long Stroke SCAR, dubbed SPG-220

I can't find any photos of this thing so here are some videos, a (British?, Australian? He's some kind of assimilated foreigner) guy that looks like Don Vito with a mustache out of Idaho made a ambidextrous AR with two ejection ports and like I said, there are literally no photos

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Update on the P320 uncommanded discharge sleuthing

 

[Club Sandwich]

This is probably stretching the limits of your knowledge but you woudn't happen to be able to shed any light on these conversions would you?

unfortunately i don't have much to contribute as my knowledge of japanese firearms largely starts in the smokeless era. the Murata conversions did exist though and were used primarily during both as additional arms in the Sino-Japanese war in the 1890's as well as supplementary arms for the Russo-Japanese war in the early 1900's. at the time of the Sino-Japanese war, tanegashima conversions were almost entirely given to infantry as massed fire weapons and the "craftsmenship" was excellent, but largely as a result of being both overly built with thick cast receivers that were soft enough to not crack under pressure and at the same time using hexagonal barrels that were tapering, allowing decent balance and strength. the Japanese tanegashima was likely based on portugese arquebus matchlocks from Malacca after it fell from Malay control to the Portuguese in 1510's. these were also relatively over built for the powder charge in use at the time, as it was diluted for storage in rough conditions and good powder was reserved for cannons on ships and at forts.

Is there any particular reason why this mechanism wasn't more popular in the past? Besides a "It's good enough" attitude and less of a concern regarding optics mounting?

the MG42 was incredibly influential in machine work and mechanical design but the earlier MG39 was the birth of the spring loaded reciprocating feed mechanism. what it essentially is, is the MG42 feed turned sideways and replaces the track with a separate feed pawl that is actuated by a cam surface on the side of the carrier (on the Negev there is one surface on the left side, the PK and PKM there is one on the right side, the LAMG uses two surfaces both on the carrier and in the receiver, et c).

this "short" method isn't used as much because it directly limits the weight of the belt being fed, and requires less forgiveness of gas settings for function leading to needing to be both overgassed as well as having enough travel of the carrier to not strike the rear of the receiver. there's no linkage in the Negev for easy self-adjustment like on the PKM, so the Negev and LAMG both have a gas regulator and requires the operator to adjust it as the belt lightens.

the MG42, M60, HK21, et c are self-regulating and adjusting and need nothing special to counter belt weight changes.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Made some changes to my Mark IV 22/45. Swapped out the microdot I had mounted on the factory rail to a Holosun HE407K green dot on a TandemKross mount and added some different G10 grip panels. Shaved a fair amount of weight just swapping optics and it feels significantly less top-heavy now.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Walmart has some really cool toy guns that eject shells and vibrate and even have suppressors you thread on. All under $25 too. I am shocked. Apparently the holster will actually fit a real one too. I also saw a 92, and two MP5s one with a stock. Very . The one MP5 came with a bump helmet with a pvs14 that emits a green light lol

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Walmart has some really cool toy guns that eject shells and vibrate and even have suppressors you thread on. All under $25 too. I am shocked. Apparently the holster will actually fit a real one too. I also saw a 92, and two MP5s one with a stock. Very . The one MP5 came with a bump helmet with a pvs14 that emits a green light lol
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If you want a cool toy gun, check out this half-length nerf dart gun. Great power and range and the "slide" even locks back on empty.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Winchester 1894's that have been modified by a long dead guy to be able to unloaded by vomiting unfired cartridges out of the loading gate

a standard feature on the new ruger marlins, but instead of vomiting them out they come out one at a time. pretty neat.