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WhoBusTank69 said:
Similarly there was a removal of a certain "Debra J. Hampton,"(no pictures) who is located in Arizona, is retired, and owns an Australian Cattle Dog named Dharma(Where have we heard this before?[1:16:47]) - not quite the teacher that Mrs. McCollum was assumed to be but still older than him.
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Her current career runs from 2010 to present, and she just freelanced until 2017; but it makes sense she could retire early, given how well FW & Ian's books have done.

I have a copy of his C&R FFL, but no way am I posting that out in the open.
 
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HelpingNoone said:
Francophile Ian's favorite gun is a new manufacture plastic AR. Sure...
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I believe him when he says it's his favorite. In one of his Q&A videos he answered a question that asked him which three guns he would save if his house were burning down and he could only save three. One was an incredibly rare French carbine, the second one I can't remember, and the third was his original WWSD rifle, he's always been very passionate and involved in the project and something you make is always more dear to you.
HelpingNoone said:
Phagan and his "not spiteful of his customers" tutorials.
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Phagan is a robot and does not understand human emotion, this kind of thing is par for the course for him and for what it's worth he is correct; it isn't hard to not lose those pins. With that said however you really need to ask why they wouldn't do the design work to put captive pins in their third generation lower.
 
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
I believe him when he says it's his favorite. In one of his Q&A videos he answered a question that asked him which three guns he would save if his house were burning down and he could only save three. One was an incredibly rare French carbine, the second one I can't remember, and the third was his original WWSD rifle, he's always been very passionate and involved in the project and something you make is always more dear to you.
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And it's not like him being a Francophile means he only likes French guns. He gushed at length about that constant-recoil Knight's LMG after he got his hands on it.

Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Phagan is a robot and does not understand human emotion, this kind of thing is par for the course for him and for what it's worth he is correct; it isn't hard to not lose those pins. With that said however you really need to ask why they wouldn't do the design work to put captive pins in their third generation lower.
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I got an easier descriptor for Phagan. He's a short-haired version of the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy. He takes more offense in tiny technicalities that offend his autism than in glaring problems that don't.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
I got an easier descriptor for Phagan. He's a short-haired version of the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy. He takes more offense in tiny technicalities that offend his autism than in glaring problems that don't.
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That is the most concise description of Phagan I've ever heard, and it's precisely the reason why he's my favorite guntuber cow.
 
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Phagan is a robot and does not understand human emotion, this kind of thing is par for the course for him and for what it's worth he is correct; it isn't hard to not lose those pins. With that said however you really need to ask why they wouldn't do the design work to put captive pins in their third generation lower.
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This is my question. The AR has always had captive pins. Why the fuck did they remove it? To save a precious oz?
 
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Smoke Manmuscle said:
This is my question. The AR has always had captive pins. Why the fuck did they remove it? To save a precious oz?
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I'd assume they removed the option for the retaining pin/spring setup to ease or otherwise simplify production.
Asking about it and worrying about dropping pins would probably get retards gawking at you wondering why you would disassemble the rifle in the field and not in a sterile temperature-controlled room.
 
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Hello Kiwi Farms members. It's been fun reading your conspiracy theories, gossip, and grown up telephone game rumors. I really don't care about you constantly getting that stuff wrong.

I do however care about you getting things about the KP-15 wrong, and polymer firearms in general wrong. Because as someone here mentioned I am that kind of sperg. The KP-15 project has been the most transparent I have ever seen in the industry and I am very accessible to answer questions rather than make wild speculations and guesses. One of the conversations I've had with Ian is "looking at how wrong people get this stuff when the primary sources are still alive and can be questioned, how accurate do you think an article on something from 100 years ago is?".

Smoke Manmuscle said:
This is my question. The AR has always had captive pins. Why the fuck did they remove it? To save a precious oz?
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Because in a polymer design having the spring and detent holes creates fail points. On the front the outer wall eventually cracks out. At the rear take down pin the hole for the spring and detent has to be relocated vertical because the buttstock is integral; you'll see the same repositioning on .308 receivers because of dimensional differences. This hole becomes a fail point in the polymer that will gradually crack over time down through the pistol grip. Using pins with the detents built into them reduces scrap rate from drills walking and makes the receiver more structurally sound. There are other ways to potentially do captured pins (see the SCAR Fire Control Module), but they could potentially interfere with the ability to use normal AR15 uppers.

There is a reason for every design decision on the KP-15. You may not agree with some of the design choices on the KP-15; but every decision is a balancing act of features, function, cost, and execution.
 
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SinistralRifleman said:
Hello Kiwi Farms members.
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iu

Okay Karl, stop posting on your phone in the cuck shed.
 
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Smoke Manmuscle said:
Why the fuck did they remove it? To save a precious oz?
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the forward pin would straight forward to add, however the void would create a flexing point during firing that could be prone to deformation and cracking, you would see this in Plum Crazy lowers that had high fire counts as well as the Bushmaster Carbon-15 lowers (ATI/Omni had a similar issue but for a different reason). aluminum is much more elastic than the polymer used in the lower (which is a modified Cavalry Arms lower from between gen 2 and gen 3) and does not suffer this potential issue. it is also cheaper to omit the machining step.

for the rear pin, the buttstock is integrated with the receiver, and the detente is normally retained by the buttstock and the receiver end plate, which is not possible with this design. Cavalry Arms / Plum Crazy gen 1 got around this by having a hole drilled vertically in the receiver which was later filled with a sprue and polymer glue. this let them install a detente sort of like how the safety detente works, but on the opposite side.

this had issues too, as it was troublesome to complete the lowers both in and out of the shop, and once installed, the detentes were permanent (as was the pin) short of drilling them out. it also introduced a void near where the lowers experience the most flex, which was a design flaw. Gen 2 lowers omitted this method in favor of a captive spring-loaded ball detente pin both front and rear as well as space for a reinforced aluminum or brass piece to reduce flexation. this made the lower and pins more expensive (at the time only like 2 companies made these pins) but it worked and had trouble-free operation and became the gold-standard in polymer AR-15 lower designs. Gen 3 changed to an HK-like spring-loaded leaf detente (among other small changes) but was only made for less than a year before Cavalry Arms died. Plum Crazy still makes lowers as New Frontier Armory, and Cavalry Arms i guess sold their tooling to POF who also bought out Bushmaster's Carbon 15 tooling and i guess KE Arms managed to get the Cav Arms stuff in some fashion.

edit: an article written here has a better insight into Cav Arms, but i stand by my post for the reasoning on the lack of in-lower detentes and the use of a detente loaded pin. details on the business towards the end are likely incorrect, but i'll keep them there for posterity.

SinistralRifleman said:
I am very accessible to answer questions
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why are you and Karl politicizing the firearms hobby and trade more so than it already is by injecting new far left perspectives on a natural human right - a right under attack through well-funded political action by zealots and ideologues that derive power and wealth from pushing an authoritarian agenda under the color of leftist ideology? the recent video interview Karl did was great. he should behave more along those lines instead of engaging in political slapfights that cause people to dig into his beliefs and personal lives which he might not want to be public knowledge. you are not any different than that. avoid the politics and enjoy the hobby or participate in the industry. there is no gain from purposely reducing the population of possible friends or customers when those in power and those vying for power are already doing that.
edit: i mistook @SinistralRifleman for tacticool BF or whomever that is.
 
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Club Sandwich said:
the forward pin would straight forward to add, however the void would create a flexing point during firing that could be prone to deformation and cracking, you would see this in Plum Crazy lowers that had high fire counts as well as the Bushmaster Carbon-15 lowers (ATI/Omni had a similar issue but for a different reason). aluminum is much more elastic than the polymer used in the lower (which is a modified Cavalry Arms lower from between gen 2 and gen 3) and does not suffer this potential issue. it is also cheaper to omit the machining step.

for the rear pin, the buttstock is integrated with the receiver, and the detente is normally retained by the buttstock and the receiver end plate, which is not possible with this design. Cavalry Arms / Plum Crazy gen 1 got around this by having a hole drilled vertically in the receiver which was later filled with a sprue and polymer glue. this let them install a detente sort of like how the safety detente works, but on the opposite side.

this had issues too, as it was troublesome to complete the lowers both in and out of the shop, and once installed, the detentes were permanent (as was the pin) short of drilling them out. it also introduced a void near where the lowers experience the most flex, which was a design flaw. Gen 2 lowers omitted this method in favor of a captive spring-loaded ball detente pin both front and rear as well as space for a reinforced aluminum or brass piece to reduce flexation. this made the lower and pins more expensive (at the time only like 2 companies made these pins) but it worked and had trouble-free operation and became the gold-standard in polymer AR-15 lower designs. Gen 3 changed to an HK-like spring-loaded leaf detente (among other small changes) but was only made for less than a year before Cavalry Arms died. Plum Crazy still makes lowers as New Frontier Armory, and Cavalry Arms i guess sold their tooling to POF who also bought out Bushmaster's Carbon 15 tooling and i guess KE Arms managed to get the Cav Arms stuff in some fashion.
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Many of the details in this post are painfully wrong. If you want the actual history of the CAV-15 receiver you can read it here: https://sinistralrifleman.com/2013/01/27/history-of-the-cav-15-polymer-receiver/
 
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