the Ruger PC Carbine is available sub $1k typically. Beretta Cx4 Storm (harder to find). the Hi Point 995 is fairly decent, and the Sub 2000 is plastic feeling and purposely built to a cost, they both work fairly reliably and have effort in the design. some of the other stuff out there, like the Chiappa M1-9 Carbine can be hit or miss (mostly miss). so try and figure your budget and what you want out of a PCC and search on cost and features. a conversion kit or something might be the way to go. you can sometimes find deals on "AR-9" or Colt SMG style carbines if you look around, and Glock AR-15 compatible kits have been popular for the last couple years.
Bullpups will make your dick hard. They also are very compact, and are a few inches shorter than their counterparts. The triggers are not great because there is a long metal wire/lever that runs from the front to the back. But in most citations it should not be a problem. I think Kel-Tec makes a decent Cali legal bullpup rifle.
God damn CNN is a retard. Did they even research anything before they posted that article? The lower receiver is the part that has the serial # and is legally considered a firearm according to feds. Not the upper receiver or the "frame". And what was the guy doing that got him in trouble with the feds? Running a cnc machine shop and let people rent the machines to finish 80% uppers?
The HiPoint 995 is Unironically one of my favorite PCCs on the market. It feels really good to shoot unlike their handgun options and, in typical HiPoint fashion, will run until you try to shoot a .50 down the barrel. Other than that, the Beretta cx4 is pretty nice, but kinda overpriced, and a lot of other 'PCC' options are just semi-auto sub guns that aren't really meant to fulfill the role of a PCC. The S2K is more meant as a backpack gun rather than a real PCC.
rifle cartridges almost always have far more energy to "dump" into a target, creating incredibly damaging wounds in tissue either through fragmentation or though excessive yawing. the resulting tissue damage internally is generally consistently worse than typical handgun cartridge at all ranges other than near point blank, where excessive energy with very stable or very efficient bullets tends to just poke holes in a target that are painful, but unlikely to be lethal.
Ruger's CA compliant AR-556 rifle (model 8523) is identical to their MOE rifle (model 8513) with the exception of a limited magazine and "action disassembly required" fixed magazine. it isn't somehow special just for CA.
They're an older kind of workhorse that aren't as easy to modify, clean, or operate when compared to your basic AR-10. Out of the box, they're also not as accurate barring something like a National Match.
M14 was a dumb choice to adopt as a service rifle but for personal use it's fun and not going to be much worse in terms of performance than any other mainstream battle rifle. If you're just after practical choices then you're going to get an AR10 and like it.
If you know of any reliable local smiths, they'll probably have the tools to clean it up without CKing it up. Truthfully, though, I'd just clean it the best I could with some CLP and some gunmetal polish and run with it. Some dings and scratches won't hurt anything reliability wise, and worn-in, well cared for guns are always cool.
it's a commercialized adaptation of an "okay" service rifle that a lot of people have nostalgia for. it has good potential for competitive accuracy with some investment and work, however out of the box it's fairly average. Springfield uses an 8620 steel alloy cast receiver which is fine for virtually all normal uses but can crack at the heel if dropped unassembled (vs forged receivers that tend to deform instead). it's going to be more accurate than you are, though, as are most rifles. be aware that specialty parts are widely available in the US and are sometimes more expensive than what you might expect. the 10 round magazine is a bit annoying because of how short it is, you can really only use fingertips to remove it. you can use some spare shoe lace to loop through a punched hole at the base of the magazine (drain hole) and one you make yourself at the rear of the magazine (no larger than 1/8") so you have something to help extract with, as the magazines are not typically drop free.
yes, although it would depend on your specific CZ-75B: if it's old enough to not have the stainless steel slide/frame that was powder/epoxy coated and painted (TuffCoat), then you can just parkerize the parts and card off anything that gets too much build up.
I like battle rifles and I like the idea of the M14 being a more modernized Garand even if in practice it was a kludge that didn't last in frontline service long. It mostly comes down to aesthetics at the end of the day for me, I don't have to throw on a ridiculous fin grip on an M1A as opposed to a FAL or a G3. I'm not considering getting one because I'm willing to spend boomer levels of money on it to make it a tack driver but since it's probably going to be my only long gun for a while I'd like it to be at least somewhat practical hence the accessory rail and shorter barrel on the scout squad.
