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Did Hickok really say that? Given his age, I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of boomers had that same position. "Bumpstocks are pointless toys, just let the antigun folks have this win, we have more important things to worry about." The same kind of guys who don't get upset at mag capacity limit laws because their 1911 mags can't even hold 10 anyway.
He allegedly sold footage of bumpstock use to the media, was notorious for copyright strikes regarding the bumpstock footage, and is one of those "fuck you, got mine" types that thinks if the younger generations appease the left and scrap bumpstocks we'll get to keep some of what we have.
 
Can someone explain to me where this disconnect in boomers/older people comes from? Like I don't get hyping American values, freedom and the founding fathers; and then turning around and trying to appease the left? I was born after Feinstein introduced the 94 AWB, and I actively cheered her death. How can someone watch a creature like that stand up and demand total confiscation, settle on partial limits and still believe in coming to an understanding with the opposition? Like how do they not see the disconnect? What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not comprehend?
 
Can someone explain to me where this disconnect in boomers/older people comes from? Like I don't get hyping American values, freedom and the founding fathers; and then turning around and trying to appease the left? I was born after Feinstein introduced the 94 AWB, and I actively cheered her death. How can someone watch a creature like that stand up and demand total confiscation, settle on partial limits and still believe in coming to an understanding with the opposition? Like how do they not see the disconnect? What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not comprehend?
Americans are too fat to fight, so they just get angry until they forget about being angry and then they cope about how nothing changed.
 
Can someone explain to me where this disconnect in boomers/older people comes from? Like I don't get hyping American values, freedom and the founding fathers; and then turning around and trying to appease the left? I was born after Feinstein introduced the 94 AWB, and I actively cheered her death. How can someone watch a creature like that stand up and demand total confiscation, settle on partial limits and still believe in coming to an understanding with the opposition? Like how do they not see the disconnect? What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not comprehend?
Why fight and make a change when you could watch Marvel™ movie number 8675309 about gay trans lesbian bionical super xey/xer?
 
Can someone explain to me where this disconnect in boomers/older people comes from? Like I don't get hyping American values, freedom and the founding fathers; and then turning around and trying to appease the left? I was born after Feinstein introduced the 94 AWB, and I actively cheered her death. How can someone watch a creature like that stand up and demand total confiscation, settle on partial limits and still believe in coming to an understanding with the opposition? Like how do they not see the disconnect? What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not comprehend?
for a lot of them, especially the older ones and the silents, they grew up in a time where there was broad bipartisan support for a ban not only on "assualt weapons" but on pistols too. people don't understand that until the 80s-90s pistols bans were part of the conversation, CCW of all kinds was almost universally illegal and "assualt weapons", PDWs/SMGs etc were a rare sight and more often than not in the hands of criminal gang bangers. they were raised in a different time. im not excusing them but trying to give context.

gun rights have been on a exponential upswing since the AWB sunset in 2004 (which is wild that it even was allowed to sunset anyway). for the most part gun owners in 2024 have more rights than at almost any other point in US history. true, you could own almost anything during the wild west and early 1900s but it was a real gray area. now its all codified in law.

Hell, sotomayor in the bump stock ruling admitted that AR's etc were in COMMON USE. that is HUGE and no one is really mentioning it. we really could see the NFA struck down in the next 10-20 years. if it comes up on this court its more than likely even.
 
Can someone explain to me where this disconnect in boomers/older people comes from?
Post-boomer generations grew up with firearms being a central aspect of popular culture. From Rambo to Call of Duty, every kid in the last 40 years has grown up and seen how cool guns are.

Boomers didn’t. If you didn’t grow up on a farm with a rifle, or get drafted, you didn’t see guns outside of the hands of police marshals on Gunsmoke or criminals on Columbo.

Guns are alien to boomers. That’s why they primarily like old western and old military firearms. Those were the things they were exposed to and allowed to use.

Call of Duty unironically did a ton for gun ownership.
 
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So, building an AR pistol in .300 blk. Anything I should be aware of before I start assembling?
start with an H buffer, and be sure if you aren't buying a barrel with included gas system, that you stick with ones designed explicitly for .300 AAC Blackout. the gas port is a unique size, varied on barrel length, and typically uses a "pistol" length gas system. different manufacturers have different secret sauce recipes for the gas port vs barrel length ratio.

for an "all-around" system, a gas port of 0.1" works with 110gr pills at 1850 f/s at 100 meters in a 9" barrel (Ballistic Advantage for example). however this might not be the same as a 9" build with a Faxon 9" barrel which can use a port from 0.102" through 0.105" depending on when it was made. 0.0995" is what i put in builds i do for customers that want to run 9" with muzzle brake and a low profile gas block for a free float tube build. it'll open up to 0.1" after a couple hundred rounds and stay there for a good long time. if you plan on a 9" with suppressor, upgrade to an H2 buffer.

if you want to fine tune, either get an adjustable gas block with a barrel that has a 0.0995" port (or 0.1125" if you have a 10.5" barrel) and adjust from there and have a spare couple buffers on hand to swap as needed and a stack of ammo. pistol builds with a suppressor with .300 black out can break bolt catches fairly easily if you don't increase buffer weight.

edit: let me also add that if you're doing a 16" barrel length, the gas port should be 0.080" thereabouts. i like to go to 0.079 and ream to 0.080, a lot of factory finished barrels in 16" will come with something around 0.081" or so to make room for wider ammo variety. i don't do many .300 Blackout 16" builds, the last batch was was a couple years ago and they were intended to be run suppressed, full-auto 24/7 with 220gr OTM pills and an H3 buffer off a 10.3" barrel length (compatibility to existing training and accessories) and QD muzzle device for maintenance purposes.
 
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So, building an AR pistol in .300 blk. Anything I should be aware of before I start assembling?
I can't touch @Club Sandwich on the technical stuff, but I will say that you need to be very diligent about paying attention to what you're feeding it if you already have a 5.56 AR. I'd take it far enough to have a set of mags that are explicitly marked (however you wanna do that) and keeping stuff very compartmentalized. I've seen multiple kabooms from trying to squeeze a .30 bullet down a .22 tube and it gets pretty explodey.
 
Hell, sotomayor in the bump stock ruling admitted that AR's etc were in COMMON USE. that is HUGE and no one is really mentioning it.
I noticed this. It seems to have gone over most people's heads.
we really could see the NFA struck down in the next 10-20 years. if it comes up on this court its more than likely even.
It needs to happen ASAP. Isn't the NFA in direct conflict with the Bruen ruling? Regulation of so-called "short barreled rifles" and suppressors has no history or tradition preceding the passing of the NFA. Suppressors are particularly a wild thing to be regulated under the ATF's jurisdiction, seeing as they're not even firearms or explosive devices. You could make the same argument about SBRs too, since it's not the barrels themselves that are regulated, merely the accessories being attached to firearms with those barrels.

Edit: Something else I keep forgetting -- when the ATF announced their "final rule" (lol) about braced pistols, they made the argument that braced pistols have essentially been unregistered SBRs the entire time. There are god knows how many million braced pistols out there. The ATF basically made the argument that unregistered SBRs are in common use.
 
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So, building an AR pistol in .300 blk. Anything I should be aware of before I start assembling?
Clubby has you covered for build considerations (although don't forget he's a fed so he's out to get us).

I wanted to reply with usage considerations. I think .300 BLK is a niche caliber, designed to be used to kill people quietly inside structures or <150m. As such I think it performs best from a 8.5"-10.5" barrel with an adjustable gas system and a suppressor. I personally prefer supers but it is damn quiet with subs, like surprisingly so. To make things easy on yourself I suggest you pick a round or two that are close in bullet weight that perform satisfactorily for you and stick with those.

I definitely like it as a home defense rifle or a truck gun (take or leave the suppressor on that one) but I also suggest you remember it's far from as broadly applicable as 5.56 can be. After you get it built and have some time with it I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
 
I noticed this. It seems to have gone over most people's heads.

It needs to happen ASAP. Isn't the NFA in direct conflict with the Bruen ruling? Regulation of so-called "short barreled rifles" and suppressors has no history or tradition preceding the passing of the NFA. Suppressors are particularly a wild thing to be regulated under the ATF's jurisdiction, seeing as they're not even firearms or explosive devices. You could make the same argument about SBRs too, since it's not the barrels themselves that are regulated, merely the accessories being attached to firearms with those barrels.

Edit: Something else I keep forgetting -- when the ATF announced their "final rule" (lol) about braced pistols, they made the argument that braced pistols have essentially been unregistered SBRs the entire time. There are god knows how many million braced pistols out there. The ATF basically made the argument that unregistered SBRs are in common use.

Here's a real kicker for you: one of the criminal trials that lead to NFA 1934 was over a short barreled shotgun. The judge in that case ruled that a sawed-off shotgun wasn't protected under the Second Amendment because the military doesn't use SBSes, and thus it had no application as a weapon for a militia man. So back in the early 20th century judges recognized that the Second Amendment applied to "weapons of war", but flash forward a couple decades and suddenly 2A is supposedly about deer rifles and duck guns. It's also funny, because now short barreled shotguns and rifles are common military arms. It just goes to show that any law that restricts what law abiding US citizens can own in the way of arms is unconstitutional, and that "shall not be infringed" needs to be our absolute watch word.
 
I can't touch @Club Sandwich on the technical stuff, but I will say that you need to be very diligent about paying attention to what you're feeding it if you already have a 5.56 AR. I'd take it far enough to have a set of mags that are explicitly marked (however you wanna do that) and keeping stuff very compartmentalized. I've seen multiple kabooms from trying to squeeze a .30 bullet down a .22 tube and it gets pretty explodey.
Yeah, I'm aware of the spicy overlook. Outside of the mag I keep loaded up in my home defense AR I keep the rest of my mags unloaded and don't load til I'm at the range (outside of shit like the summer of floyd when I loaded everything up)
Clubby has you covered for build considerations (although don't forget he's a fed so he's out to get us).

I wanted to reply with usage considerations. I think .300 BLK is a niche caliber, designed to be used to kill people quietly inside structures or <150m. As such I think it performs best from a 8.5"-10.5" barrel with an adjustable gas system and a suppressor. I personally prefer supers but it is damn quiet with subs, like surprisingly so. To make things easy on yourself I suggest you pick a round or two that are close in bullet weight that perform satisfactorily for you and stick with those.

I definitely like it as a home defense rifle or a truck gun (take or leave the suppressor on that one) but I also suggest you remember it's far from as broadly applicable as 5.56 can be. After you get it built and have some time with it I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Suppressor platform is the plan with this build. My birthday is coming up next month and I plan on hitting up my local silencer shop affiliate. I'll definately give an update after a few hundred rounds suppressed and unsuppressed.
Good specs for building an upper.
Thanks friend, but I ended up ordering a build kit with a pre-completed upper. I've had a stripped lower laying around for a while specifically for this purpose.
 
I'll definately give an update after a few hundred rounds suppressed and unsuppressed.
post groups and pics when it's ready. also you can get some cheap magpul mags and paint or dye them to tell the difference visually. for tactile differences i've seen people use different floorplates (ranger plates = 5.56, nothing = range mag with cheap .223, floor plate with a pattern or lip you can feel = .300 blackout et c). that being said there's nothing stopping ammunition from getting mixed up, so a clean bench when loading mags and policing loose rounds is what i do.
 
post groups and pics when it's ready. also you can get some cheap magpul mags and paint or dye them to tell the difference visually. for tactile differences i've seen people use different floorplates (ranger plates = 5.56, nothing = range mag with cheap .223, floor plate with a pattern or lip you can feel = .300 blackout et c). that being said there's nothing stopping ammunition from getting mixed up, so a clean bench when loading mags and policing loose rounds is what i do.
Oh, I've got dozens of mags, I think I might do a tape band if I decide to use it for home defense, but I'm very fastidious when it comes to keeping ammo separated.
 
What's the go-to recommendation for first time AR-15 buyers these days? I've long recommended a BCM upper and Aero Precision lower to first time buyers, but I have no idea if that's still the most cost effective option for steering people away from stuff like BCA, PSA, etc. I'm aware that the IWI Zion-15 could be purchased for no more than $900 over the past year or two, but then you have a rifle called "Zion-15"... I know the S&W M&P 15 Sport III was released earlier this year and has an MSRP of only $799, but I dislike that the BCG is still semi-only and the barrel is 4140 instead of 4150. These might not be issues for a first time buyer, though. I'm just curious what you guys would recommend for newbies with no more than $1000 to spend on the bare rifle.
 
What's the go-to recommendation for first time AR-15 buyers these days? I've long recommended a BCM upper and Aero Precision lower to first time buyers, but I have no idea if that's still the most cost effective option for steering people away from stuff like BCA, PSA, etc. I'm aware that the IWI Zion-15 could be purchased for no more than $900 over the past year or two, but then you have a rifle called "Zion-15"... I know the S&W M&P 15 Sport III was released earlier this year and has an MSRP of only $799, but I dislike that the BCG is still semi-only and the barrel is 4140 instead of 4150. These might not be issues for a first time buyer, though. I'm just curious what you guys would recommend for newbies with no more than $1000 to spend on the bare rifle.
It depends on use case. If you just want to shoot at trash then PSA is okay. If you want a general purpose that works for outdoors and things that go bump in the night, always suggest building. If they're incapable of assembly, Ruger's ARs are decent and they can always upgrade from that.

I always tell people to stay away from Anderson and BCA, though.
 
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