Oh Shoot

And it's before they ruined the grips with finger grooves.   - OS

  :rofl:  I've never heard it put more eloquently. :rofl:

  10.5, carbine gas. Has run like a champ on every ammo I've tried. Ran fine with standard buffer, good ejection pattern, but I put a H2 in it just to see if made it a little less snappy, maybe it did, not sure. Same reliable function, same 4:00 or so ejection pattern.   I can get Dolomite to do a bit of trigger magic on it now, couldn't do his kit with the plastic one.   - OS

  I had to be nice, the FFL is also a deputy. :)   - OS

  Pressed mine into service right away, as I mentioned to ya:   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/73269-the-tgo-receiver-build-thread/page-2#entry1075081   - OS

  Consensus I saw for about a year on arfcom is that you have about 50/50 chance. Depends on barrel length and proper gassing, and seems most pistol length barrels tend to be oversized on the gas port. With conventional tube, you can compensate with standard heavier buffers and springs to tune it better.   But as 6.8 says, zero advantage for stability touching your bod. It's pretty amazing how much more accurately they shoot with just that tube laid against cheek for third point of contact.   - OS

  My phone number is on the CMT packing slip, Mike.   But was notified by Mike (LawEnforcementSalesTN) by TGO PM.   - OS

  No, that part is wrong.   It's perfectly legal to buy me a firearm as a gift (assuming technically I did not give you the money for it, and  I am not prohibited from owning firearms) and you do the 4473 in your name. You are still to check that YOU are the actual purchaser of the firearm on question 11a. This is not a "straw purchase:", and indeed is an actual example given in the instructions on the 4473 itself.   What rifle am I getting, btw? ;)   - OS

Just got my TGO lower today. Swapped the lower parts from an Omni plastic fantastic that my pistol was using and voilà : And btw, folks, I just use a paper clip to remove pivot pin, can start a new one with just fingernail or tiny screwdriver on the detente. - OS

  Yup. Any "temporary" barrel is fine.    - OS

  Just a note, Remington doesn't show .357 sig in Golden Saber on site anymore, so dunno.   - OS

  Wow, yeah, that's what his site says, had only said he had suspended it previously. Maybe he's plea bargained under the radar, or BATF just got disgusted and nuked him?   - OS

  Well, a wedding cake doesn't have to be purchased for an actual wedding after all, nor does a nurse uniform have to be worn by a real nurse. :dirty:   - OS

  Shoeless shirtless people are not a protected class.   You can refuse to serve gay shirtless and shoeless people AFAIK. At least as per federal law. In some places you have to serve nude ones as per local law!   Is this a great country, or what? ;)   - OS

  Precisely how is refusing to bake them a cake different than refusing to serve them dinner on the basis of discrimination? That I assume will be the legal issue.   The vendor's religious beliefs seem to have already failed as a justifiable reason as decided as per the ACA, for example (Catholic institutions and Hobby Lobby having to offer birth control, etc).   - OS

  Would think an FFL would be reluctant if not completely averse to transferring to a different person than it was sold to, even spouse?   - OS

  Firearm owners are not a protected class, like sex, race, age, disability, color, creed, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.   We only have that ole musty US Constitution thang, something about "will not be infringed" -- which along with a couple bucks will get you a beer.   - OS

Besides whatever else, always seems to come down to city/county business and zoning requirements. As I get it, BATF will want to see a biz license, both city and county if you live inside city limits and both require them. So you might as well look into that first.   - OS

  Why wouldn't it? Sexual orientation is a federally protected status against discrimination, same as race, eh?   Even worse if you punch a gay guy, then it's hate crime status.   - OS

  Well, seems fair, and even logical to me (I mean at least in the context of the illogical SBR requirement in the first place).   If you want to pay 200 clams and wait a year to make an SBR, fine. But also fine if you later want to nuke the whole idea and turn it into a normal legal rifle and sell it. It's not like you get a refund or anything. :)   - OS

    No, you can configure it as non-NFA and sell it perfectly legally, as complete legal rifle, or even parts (full auto parts/can excepted of course). ATF "asks" that you send letter you've removed it from NFA classification is all but even that is not "required".   I'll find ATF FAQ if someone else doesn't first.   edit: here, found it quicker than I thought. Discussed variously on this page, especially second section:   http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/national-firearms-act-short-barreled-rifles-shotguns.html#receiver-nfa-transfer   (btw, this statement, which is off topic, caught my eye:   "A non-licensee or FFL who has not paid the SOT is required to register any NFA firearm via an ATF Form 1 (5320.1) prior to acquisition of the parts required to assemble such firearm."   is actually wrong, or let's just say, "incomplete", as all parts to make an SBR are perfectly legal to possess without tax stamp as long as they also have a legal use other than making an NFA firearm.)   - OS

  Wouldn't that screw you if you ever wanted to sell the thing as an SBR?  As I understand it, you can "temporarily" change config any time you like (with no time limit specified), but to transfer it, has to be in same config as originally registered, unless you notified ATF of a permanent config change?   Of course, you can always sell it in non-NFA configuration as normal firearm, and sell barrel separately, so this may not matter to ya at all.   - OS

It is. Most all standard "pistol buffers" are very close to carbine length. Most of them just look shorter in pix if not attached, and a partial foam cover seems to accentuate that look. This is Phase 5, a very popular choice, and it's within a fat whisker of carbine length. - OS

Only about half the folks who try them get them to run reliably. They were all the rage on pistol section of arfcom. Briefly.   Also, you are taking away the biggest advantage of full length buffer tube on AR pistol, using the tube as third point of contact over shoulder and against cheek, or even clumsily schrunching up on it as a stock against shoulder.   Holding the AR pistol out on a sling for stability sucks in practice, IMNSHO.   - OS

  You know, in all seriousness, EOTWAWKI cannibalism is frequent topic, and also in all non-tin foil seriousness if I didn't give up on life period, I'd probably start chowing down on the necessary targets pretty early on myself.   If you can get past the cultural creepiness, don't see why "long pig" wouldn't be as good or better than various other stuff I've eaten.   - OS   edit: don't eat the braaiiiinnnss. Prions and all that.