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sodomy lifestyle said:
Nigguh gimme dat 😩


WW2 era .22 training conversions sound like an awesome way to combine plinking with historical gear.
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.22 training conversions and cadet rifles (rifles that look and function similar to their full-size military counterparts used to train young cadets marksmanship before they enter the military proper) are a helluva lotta fun. I've recently gotten an itch to get a US M2 training rifle, but they have become very collectable and thus clean examples are becoming expensive. But they were made in the early 20th century when even .22s were made from solid machined steel like their big brothers. No castings, no pot metal, no stamped sheet steel, no aluminum, no polymer parts. Just good old fashioned steel and wood, like an M1903 or Mauser 98.
 
sodomy lifestyle said:
Nigguh gimme dat 😩


WW2 era .22 training conversions sound like an awesome way to combine plinking with historical gear.
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There are chamber inserts for mosins that allow you to shoot 7.62x25 tokarev. I've thought about drawing up plans for a Brammit suppressor because I think it would be really cool to shoot 7.62 tok through a suppressed Mosin. Not really economical in 2025 but still cool. I've heard that you can get squib rounds though which is kinda scary. Supposedly the tiny bullets can get stuck mid-barrel due to low pressure and messy tolerances.

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There are also chamber inserts for the Enfield rifles that allow you to shoot .32 acp. Last I checked someone is still making De Lisle style carbine conversion barrels for Enfields too. You can find them on Centerfire's website.

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I will never recover financially from the purchase of these magazines, but I also installed the Gray Guns short reset system which has taken all of the grit out of the trigger and shortened the take up by a noticeable amount. Almost like it was designed to do that! Looking forward to taking it out to the range in the coming days.

Thinking of picking up a voelker precision flat trigger along with the lem kit but thats for the future when my budget allows.
 
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Pretend To Imagine said:
When I was still running VP9s I had over 60 factory magazines
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Damn, I've only got like, 8 or 9 (three of those 20rnd match mags, tho)

A VP9K is on the horizon for me, but only when they start a run of colored frames sometime in the future, I need an urban grey companion (or OD) for all of my other colored HKs.

I love my Match upper, even with a shitty vortex.
 
The only other HKs I foresee picking up are mp5 or turkroach clones of them, or maybe like the g53 turkroach clone
 
If/when the NFA dies for SBRs and cans I don't know which flavor of MP5 I want first, an SD, or a K.
Leaning towards that Turkroach SD clone that is just a 5" barrel with a shroud, so you can slide 8" worth of can under the handguards. Close enough.
 
BikeLock said:
If/when the NFA dies for SBRs and cans I don't know which flavor of MP5 I want first, an SD, or a K.
Leaning towards that Turkroach SD clone that is just a 5" barrel with a shroud, so you can slide 8" worth of can under the handguards. Close enough.
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I'd pick up an MP5K in a heartbeat if those goofy suitcases for them were still available. Useless in practice? Yeah, but it doesn't stop me from wanting one.
 
Hello everyone, I come bearing a most interesting data point with potentially massive implications.
Apparently, AS Designs, a manufacturer of Super safeties and super safety derivatives such as their ARC Fire system, have the capacity to sell 10,000 units of ARC Fire systems per month
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As of 11 days ago they had going on 23,000 people on their waiting list
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10,000 units per month means 120,000 units annually and at $250 per means a theoretical $30,000,000 in net sales annually just from ARC Fires assuming no increases in production or disruptions and no super safeties or any of the other products they sell. Why is this important? A couple reasons

1. Production capacity indicates demand (you don't make things you don't expect to be able to sell) and demand indicates a changing culture which indicates growing acceptance of FRT's in the firearms community. I would wager a guess and say that at least half of FRT owners are under 40 (but even the crusty old boomers on arfcom love the things so who knows). As the great boomer die off continues on and on, proportionately the amount of young(er) firearms enthusiasts who are in my opinion much more likely to own FRT's will become a much greater presence. FRT's will become normalized and at least some mainstream politicians will have to at least pay lip service to protecting them in order to win elections.

2. AS Designs theoretical gross sales indicates that there is (relatively) easy money out there just floating around waiting to be hoovered up. The message is: If you can engineer an FRT for a relatively popular firearm or style of firearms you can be a rich man. This incentivizes FRT development which if successful leads to more FRT sales which leads to broader cultural penetration and thus more acceptance (which drives demand as people want more FRT's for more guns thus increasing demand) Assuming that AS Designs makes only a 10% profit (which while I'm not an MBA sounds a little low for a metal contraption in a relatively niche industry that sells for $250 per) that is still a profit of $3,000,000. And anyone with a creative streak and a machine shop can theoretically make that money. Instead or "Go West Young Man" it's "Design that FRT"

3. AS Designs is but ONE seller of FRT's

4. Years ago, I made a far looking prediction about FRT's and loosening of real deal machinegun restrictions to an associate of mine. I said that if somehow, FRT's can stay legal for long enough and enough of them get sold there is a very real chance, not a very large chance, but a real chance nonetheless, that maybe in 10 or 15 years there could be at least a chance that we could at least get the machinegun registry opened again. The registry being opened back up again (even with tax stamps and registration) means that PSA can pump out 100,000 DIAS's a month and we can get real deal open bolts and belt feds again. Think of the impact on gun culture Factory PSA's with real deal select fire capability for $1200 would make?

"AGPinochet! You're overdosing on Hopium and are delusional! That would never happen Because nothing ever happens, The grabbers would carbomb the NRA headquarters before that happened!"

I didn't say it was going to happen just that there was a chance, Prohibition regimes have crumbled in the past, literal actual capital P Prohibition for starters, weed is probably going to be federally legal by 2035, You couldn't legally do sports betting outside of 4 states in 2017 and you had to do it in person, now you can do it form your phone in 30 states and The Draft Kings lobbyists will Make it nationwide eventually. All of those those things were achieved through mass market demand and lobbying. With weed it was "all these people are sitting in jail for crimes we believe are victimless) and with FRT's it could be " Listen, we basically all have fake pseudo totally not machineguns that are like 90% as good as real machineguns so can we stop playing games here and let us have the real ones"

I made that prediction to my associate I believe even before the release or the Super Safety in July 2023 when the only FRT game was Rare Breed, BDU's blatant clone the WOT and a couple 3D2A types playing round with DIY models. The Rarebreed FRT was first announced to the world in December of 2020. Since then we've had Super Safeties adapted to a laundry list of different firearm platforms with a dozen retailers, resellers and manufacturers (even Atlantic Firearms carries them now) the Atrius Super Selektor, The Arizona Regulator, there are some guys on arfcom teasing a $300 cassette FRT, we had the Wide Open Trigger and The FRT-15L3, The ARC Fire and there are some based young Chuds at Cornfire Arsenal selling a product improved Atrius for $200 ( the price of a normal Atrius). We have FRT Compatible Glocks, AR's, AK's, AUG's, MAC's, Skorpion's, Chinkshit shotguns, 10/22's, M&P's, MCX's, SCAR's, G3's, JAKL's, MPX's, Kuna's, Stribog's, CMMG Dissent's, M249S's, MP-5's, Vector's, TX-22's, P-90's, Beretta 92's and soon 1911's, literally every B&T semi auto, UMP's and probably half a dozen others. I would conservatively estimate that there are between 500-750k FRT's in private hands.

In the last year the following major guntubers have made the following videos about one form of FRT or another and gotten the following view counts

-Brandon Herrera, Super Safe MP-5, 2.45M views and uploaded October 15th
-GT, Rare Breed FRT in various AR's, 2M views and uploaded on October 15th
-GT, Super Safety equipped MP5, 861k views and uploaded on July 27th
-PSR, FRT Equipped M&P, 285k views and uploaded October 5th
-PSR, Delta Team FRT in various firearms, 323k views and uploaded April 20th
-PSR, Arizona Regulator in several different AR's, 732k views and uploaded October 12th
-PSR, FRT equipped TX-22, 1.27M views, uploaded September 1st.
-Alyssa Seymour, Rare Breed in various AR's

This isn't even touching on the dozens of other smaller ones and the bajillion negroes with they glizzies and Pembie G-spots and clones.

I want you to watch this video, at least the first 3 minutes on 2X speed
Look at where we were at in April of 2017.
Binary triggers, pistol braces, 9 month wait times and $200 stamps for SBR's and suppressors
Now we have FRT's and will soon have $0 sub one week SBR's and Suppressors.

There is a very real chance we could get the Hughes Amendment repealed in 20 years.

Also, Glock put a metal reinforcement in the frame mounted Auto sear denial tab in the Gen V's
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Recieved my RPTR yesterday, installed it today.

Notes from installation
  • The G3 Vector rail does not have a retaining pin - it just has extra screws under the OEM flip irons. It doesn't even slide on, it just sorta sits on top of the upper.
  • Springs be sproinging - be careful disassembling the trigger pack. The trigger reset spring really really wants to go flying.
    • When I was disassembling the trigger I almost lost it, then when I was reassembling it and trying to hook it over the retaining screw I lost my grip on it and it went fucking flying off into space. After I ordered a new one and reassembled the gun without it, I stood up from my desk and naturally it fell out of my lap. At least now I have a spare.
  • The pin that holds the sear and trigger together was difficult to get out. Partially because it was just a tight fit and partially because the trigger has some goofy geometry and I couldn't really get it in a good position to knock the pin out. I ended up using zip ties to keep it from wobbling around. I imagine if I had a proper bench block it would have been easier.
  • I have heard that if you run the 9mm Vector, you should swap your main spring for the 45ACP/40S&W one, so I will try that out.

Tried the 40 round stendo Glock mags from Kriss and the 50 round promag drum. 40 rounders were flawless. The 50 rounder wouldn't chamber when it was full so I had to download 2 rounds before it would work.

Recoil was super manageable, as you'd expect. Only thing I had to control was horizontal recoil.

I only ran into one malfunction - a stovepipe (which happened at the end of this clip).

I didn't buy the 3 position selector switch since they weren't offering it at the time but whatever. It means the super safe position is kinda vague and you have to wiggle a bit to find it.



Super super fun.
 
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Polock said:
Recieved my RPTR yesterday, installed it today.

Notes from installation
  • The G3 vector rail does not have a retaining pin - it just has extra screws under the OEM flip irons. It doesn't even slide on, it just sorta sits on top of the upper.
  • Springs be sproinging - be careful disassembling the trigger pack. The trigger reset spring really really wants to go flying.
    • When I was disassembling the trigger I almost lost it, then when I was reassembling it and trying to hook it over the retaining screw I lost my grip on it and it went fucking flying off into space. After I ordered a new one and reassembled the gun without it, I stood up from my desk and naturally it fell out of my lap. At least now I have a spare.
  • Apparently it is being recommended to install the .40 main spring, so I will try that out.

Tried the 40 round stendo Glock mags from kriss and the 50 round promag drum. 40 rounders were flawless. The 50 rounder wouldn't chamber when it was full so I had to download 2 rounds before it would work.

Recoil was super manageable, as you'd expect. Only thing I had to control was horizontal recoil.

I only ran into one malfunction - a stovepipe (which happened at the end of this clip).

I didn't buy the 3 position selector switch since they weren't offering it at the time but whatever. It means the super safe position is kinda vague and you have to wiggle a bit to find it.

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Super super fun.
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I love the rate of fire on that. I don’t know that it’s practical, but I would love to do a mag dump.
 
Holy shit the short reset on the usp is so good to shoot. Only issue is about 4 out of 150rds it didnt reset right and I had to sit there pulling the trigger before the hammer would drop. I have a feeling I installed something a smidge out of place and will be taking a look.
 
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