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Awesome! I'm about to do the same thing with my deck next month, so it's good to hear this stuff works well. Your deck appears to be about the same size as mine, so I'm curious how much it ran you.

  Okay, I was to understand that it was a one for one thing, as in I have 4 x AR rifles yet two extra buffer tubes and buttstocks for a total of 6, and at least a half dozen vertical fore grips, yet only 3 x ARs that can accept a VFG.  Also add to that 4 x virgin lowers and 2 x stripped uppers.  One could see that an addition of a 7.5 inch barrel to the mix could signify constructive intent, especially if I build a pistol the way you have yours, with the standard buffer tube that can accept a buttstock and a rail system with an angled foregrip that can be switched out with one of my VFG if desired.  Seems like a very murky area.  Certainly wouldn't want to have any marijuana plants growing wild in my back yard or be present at any white supremacist meetings with such a subjectively written law.

  This is part of the reason I have yet to build an AR pistol.  I always have extra AR parts on hand, to include extra buffer tubes, stocks, internals, fore grips and so on.  I could easily get nailed on constructive content if I was to add a short barrel to the list of extra parts, let alone an entirely assembled pistol.  But I guess that's if they really wanted to nail me and had something else hanging over my head.  Nonetheless, I hate the idea that if the feds really wanted to they could charge me with a felony when I haven't willfully broken any law nor intended to.  So, for that reason I don't have a pistol yet.  Maybe if I build one you'll see a bunch of extra parts being put up in the "pay it forward" thread.

  Next to electricity, gasoline has been the second most underestimated danger I've encountered.  I think because we are so used to handling it for various purposes, even getting a fire started.  I still use a gas/oil mixture when getting my brush pile started, but I respect the hell out of it.  It ain't so much the liquid gas that scares me, it's the fumes.  I damn near watched a buddy get killed doing exactly what you described.  Using a 5 gallon can to burn off a section of brush.  There was an open flame a good distance away; far enough that no one would ever think it a danger, until the area he was standing in exploded.  He got some pretty good burns, but thank God he wasn't holding the can when it all went up.  I learned to respect the fumes after that one.

  Personally, I feel like the billet pair is too nice to make into a simple pistol plinker, unless the ultimate goal is to SBR it.  To each his own and all, but there is no substantial reason not to turn it into a pistol.  I'm putting my billet pair on my super go-fast rifle, and putting the upper/lower I pull off into my next el-cheapo plinker.

I think you are correct.

I agree, I guess what I was saying that when you compare giving money away to an oxygen thief versus a business, the business at least makes more sense because they will produce something and employ people.

At least the difference here is that corporations make money. They employ people who spend their money and so on and so forth. At least it can be sold to the American people as an investment. People who just take with no intention of ever giving back are not an investment. A better investment would be using them as industrial fertilizer.

Okay, gotcha. Thought you were talkin AKs.

It won't happen. Like with the other high tech programs that have been canked in the past decade, they're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. They're in no position now to drop mad cash on something they know the guys on the ground will ever use and they know it.

If we're gonna have the pain, we might as well have it now rather than drag this nonsense out for another few years before the inevitable happens. The doomsday projections about default are gonna happen in the next decade anyway, so no better time than the present.

Speaking for myself, the reason why it invokes so much anger is because it is a direct theft by other Americans who are fully capable of working, and we have it thrown in our faces by those on the dole who demand even more and use their votes to have those demands met. While I tend to agree on defunding most foreign aid, or at least using the money in wiser ways to advance our interests, I can't fault the governments of those nations for taking a handout. They don't elect our leaders, and they have no inherent loyalty to us or duty to make America great. Each American does have that duty whether they chose to honor it or not. I can't forgive those that defraud the system and steal from the rest of us. There are plenty of other things to get worked up over, but this is certainly a bitch-worthy category. If we're going to have government mandated charity I want that funding to go only to people who are mentally or physically incapable of being productive members of society. Everyone else can work or die.

Been sober for too long maybe?

I'll go ahead and make my prediction; there won't be a single charge against any of these thieves nor will their EBT cards be taken back or adjusted to reflect the money they stole from me and the other people who pay taxes. Beyond that, I'm betting the gov will pick up the bill for it. The bigger issue here, and what I'm pointing out, is the propensity of the takers to take what isn't theirs. They don't believe in earning do themselves and justify taking from others by using their envy of hard working folks as an excuse.

What's with the judgmental questioning? I'm not judging you for being on government assistance, though you choose to be offended by me anyway. What am I doing? Well I guess I'm paying a sh**load in taxes so people less fortunate than me can eat. I'm raising two children to learn that nothing is free and you don't take what you didn't earn. I vote. I write my elected officials. And yes, I bitch. I don't see how that puts me on a "high horse". I think it's a sad state of affairs that a person is considered to be sitting on a high horse because he provides for his family despite a growling section of society stealing from every dollar I make.

I really, really hate thieves. They are only a rung below rapists and murderers.

The only thing missing from this video is a fire team of Marines pissing on this lowlife as he slowly died.

  I'll answer that for you; yes, he absolutely deserved to die a painful death.  He attempted to take what was not his under threat of death to the victim.  Armed robbery should be punishable by death EVERY TIME!

http://www.ksla.com/story/23679489/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-mansfield-cleared-in-ebt-glitch   I'm just gonna leave that story there to ponder.  The gist of the story is that the EBT glitch caused the limits not to show up on cards.  So what do these poor, impoverished people do?  These people who are only trying to get back on their feet so they can once again support their families through their hard work rather than taking assistance from the government.... yeah, they ransacked the store trying to buy as much sh** as possible, because Walmart was told by corporate to sell despite the EBT limits not showing up.  They did this so they weren't denying food to people that needed it.  They showed their gratitude by looting the store on the gubmint dime.   Yeah, I mean exactly what I say when I say that everyone who participated in this fraud should be ground up into soap.  These are not people.  They are subhuman scum who only exist to leech off the rest of us.  They add nothing to the world.  They are a liability to every person who earns their way.  Effing oxygen theives.  I stand by my statement that it is the majority on welfare that do this.  This is a prime example.

  Ha, I suppose that's a long way to go to want to get someone on the hook, but then again, there's that whole Randy Weaver thing.  It would be interesting to see the numbers on people convicted of NFA violations who weren't otherwise engaged in actual criminal activity.

I think it may have to do with the AR firing pin weighing more than an AK firing pin.

Well that's just about any rifle after having a mag put through it. The ones I see change pink had a lot of ammo put through them quickly. For example, putting a couple hundred rounds through it over the course of the day might not change it, but putting a couple hundred rounds over the course of a few minutes might. I see it on MG barrels always. Seen some geniuses spraying truck mounted crew served to include the barrel and just turn it pink after a belt. That's a much different level of hot compared to a little gas block burn.

I'm in the same boat now. I bought the upper/lower set to replace the upper/lower on my latest AR build, and now I'm realizing I only need a BCG and barrel to build a new rifle. Decisions.

Yeah, I'm not sure how easy it is to strip the paint once it's been heated up, but you could always go with a higher temp paint or ceracoat if it doesn't turn out. With the price/scarcity of ammo now I doubt you'll be doing a half dozen mag dumps to get it that hot anyway.

It depends how much you shoot and what type of paint you use. I've seen folks krylon their rifle to include the barrel, and after a few hundred rounds on the range their barrel turns pink and stays pink.