MrJones79

Yeah I had heard Jeff up at Guns and Leather was good so I brought it up there last Saturday. Little bit of a drive but nothing absurd. Will probably be two weeks or so until I get it back but that's a good sign if he's backed up with work.

OP - for a range pinker a .22 is fine but if you're looking for home defense then obviously go with larger caliber. Anytime you mention a popular handgun caliber on a gun forum you're going to get caliber loyalists telling you what to get. My opinion - they all are basically the same and come in enough various loads to give you what you're looking for. Go to the range and shoot some and see what you like and just go from there. Though I do agree that 9mm is probably the cheapest and is more or less always available.

There are rumors that Luke has a very small role towards the very end of the movie. Speculation is that he is more involved/prominent in the next movie (episode 8) and that this small appearance is to set up him up for the next installment. Of course, who knows what the real deal is.

Nutnfancy is probably my favorite, but I also like Tim over at Military Arms Channel.

Pin/weld is on bottom of compensator. Barrel is 16.5 - it was only pinned because of ban state compliance rules.

Looking for a GOOD gunsmith in Brentwood area. Need a pinned muzzle device removed and a new one installed (unpinned). Undoing some ban state mods on a pricey HK rifle so I don't want some hack doing it. Any suggestions?

Go with whatever plan keeps you safe. Don't rely on the corporate plan if it doesn't make sense.

Well...got her out. Kind of funny how it ended up working out. I took a drill bit slightly larger than the the roll pin and started drilling into it hoping that I could either widen the hole enough to work it out with some pliers or some small hand tool, or that I would just grind down the pin to the point that it cleared the stock so I could slide it back and remove the pin. Well, it was neither. Note the right hand side of the pin above...it is sharp form where the gunsmith cut it to length...this was not the side the drill bit was touching. As I started to drill, the roll pin started rotating. Because I was applying downward pressure to it, the roll pin itself turned into a drill bit and cut itself through the rest of the buffer tube and stock and popped out the other side a little bit. Then, I just grabbed some needle nose pliers and worked it out! Anyway, thanks for all the feedback from y'all. It is much obliged.

Not missing your point. I don't want to destroy a $200 buffer tube if I can avoid it. If I go to sell it, it will probably be an HK fan boy that buys it and they aren't gonna want a $20 buffer tube from Midway on it - they are gonna want the tacticool HK parts. Sure, I may have to knock a few bucks off for the small hole where roll pin was but I can deal with that.

I know it's absurd, but here it is: http://www.hkparts.net/shop/pc/HK416-MR556-Enhanced-Buffer-Tube-Mil-Spec-p2716.htm

Yeah I am thinking a drill bit a hair bigger than the pin and just going down a quarter inch or so may pop it loose. I mean it's already wiggling around so it may not take much.

Sure, here you go:

  Yeah, that's kind of the issue. The HK buffer tube is $200 so I'm trying to spare it. I know...it's ridiculous, but I'd rather not replace it. Working on some pics I should have up in a second.    The stock definitely has some wiggle in it, so that little pin can't be in there too tight...

  No. Unfortunately, the moron who put it in drilled the hole cockeyed. 

Anyone have any success removing a blind roll pin from an AR stock? I've recently moved to TN from a commie state, and my HK MR556 stock has a small roll pin going through the stock and it's a blind pin (doesn't go all the way through on other side). Any ideas on how to remove it without massacring my stock/buffer tube? The stock HK parts are expensive ($200 each for stock and buffer tube), otherwise I wouldn't care so much.   Thanks for any advice. 

How about Astro Glide?

No at 66%.

It's almost worse if they were legally obtained, because at that point the gun grabbers will say the current protocols to obtain a gun are not enough. They'll suggest even more disqualifying criteria be built into the NICS check that will keep normal folks from getting guns but do nothing else practically speaking. Who knows what they'd come up with but I'm sure it would be absurd, such as if you live with people on certain meds you can't get a gun, if you take certain meds you can't get a gun, federal 15 day waiting period to get a gun etc.

Have there been any updates on how this piece of crap obtained his firearms yet?

Yes I am sure it's me and not the gun. I'm definitely not used to the Glock trigger yet. I tried less/more trigger finger, grip pressure etc. I'll get it figured out eventually. If it continues I'll just bench rest the gun on a sand bag to make sure it's not the rear sight, but guessing that it won't come to that.

I just picked up a 43 and am shooting it consistently left 2-3" @7 yards. Probably me but can't get it straightened out for the life of me. Other than that, really like this little pistol.

I just moved down here from MA. It's definitely odd in today's gun control climate, but most of those manufacturers have been around for a long time - before those states were nuts on gun control. Kind of ironic now that these places can't sell some of their products to citizens of their home states.

Has Glock offered any explanation for this? I guess I could just swap it out myself. Not worth the pain of shipping it for just a mag release.

So picked up a new G43 about a week ago and noticed the magazine seems to getting stuck on he mag release. Definitely have to mash down hard on the mag release to get the mag to drop. It's defintiley not a clean release. Anyone else had this issue? Believe it or not this is my first new Glock purchase but I am quite surprised given their reputation for iron clad reliability.

Yeah I have a feeling I'm going to need to work in the language adjustment down there for sure.