>>64290531
The first two numbers of a MAK's serial indicate the year it was imported; thus, yours would've been brought in in 1993. Since Norinco imported them from 1990-1994, yours is a later import.

As for the underfolder, it's pretty much plug & play (or rather remove plug and play lol). Here's a video demonstrating how to remove the receiver plug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zQqROo6fUo

>>64290531
And here is a video on how to install a standard underfolding stock. Helpful tip: if you can't find a proper Chicom stock, a Bulgarian Type 3 stock will also fit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpOmyaAKWDI

How do you people handle private online sales? Like zelle, PayPal, whatever else?

I just bought my first gun and I'm curious, how many rounds do you shoot at an average range trip? The nearest one to me is decently far so I want to make it count but at the same time I don't want to overdo it.

>>64291942
200-500 1k+ if it's the wholeday

>>64291942
I read your question as
>I just bought my first gun and I'm bi-curious
And i was really trying to wonder what that had to do with round count lol

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>>64291189
>>64291197
You’re awesome. Thank you for this info man.

>>64291588
That's not a thing. If it's from someone out-of-state the gun goes to an FFL in your state. If it's in-state, you drive to meet up...unless the seller is an ultrafudd and insists to send it to an FFL. Private party online sales that don't fall into these categories are illegal Tor + memecoin purchases which are almost always scams.

>>64292562
I meant specifically on how to make/take payment. Of course cash in person, but if you had to ship it to their ffl what do

why do men think I'm gay when I tell them I carry a 380?

>>64292222
>came in the box
>quads
Nice, checked. Take care of it well.

>>64292582
Postal money orders in the mail. Or checks, given time to clear.

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Can the M7 be made slightly less stupid by switching from Bubba's Pissin' Hot BiMetal rounds to a SLAP style sabot round?
It should reduce the overall pressure in the gun making it easier to shoot and not wear as much while still getting the armor piercing desired.

>>64293730
I'm curious if there has been any recent testing with SLAP style projectiles. IIRC, the original SLAP program found they worked great in .50 cal, but in smaller bores they had problems with the penetrator going skew and coming out the side of the barrel. I can't help but wonder if that was happening due to the polymer technology of the time and that modern polymers could make better sabots?

>>64293023
Oh I will, it was unopened at that. Was my grandfathers. Guess he got it before the AWB and never touched it. >>64293021
Haven’t really had any criticism from this. I’ve carried the LCP max for 5 years now? And most non gun guys think it’s really cool how small it is, some frat guys called it a James Bond gun when I showed them. To them a bullet is a bullet, to gun guys you're gay If you judge a man for his caliber or shoot .357 sig.

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>>64290531
You wake up, stationed at a base near Hue City, its November 1967. Which do you choose?

>>64293730
Sabots may be tolerable in a beltfed with defined firing arcs, but in a soldier's personal rifle they tend to fly into others' faces during CQB.

>>64293722
Is that before or after it arrives at the FFL?

How do you mitigate the weight of a plate carrier? I remember seeing a video but I forget the exact details, something about using a belt to put the load onto your waist. How exactly does that even work? The PC still on your shoulders

>>64296013
M16A1 by miles. Urban combat is mostly throwing the largest volume of fire possible while maneuvering, and having double the ammunition makes a huge difference. Even the aimed shots need to be at fleeting targets, so a lighter/low recoil rifle that you can bring on target faster is a huge advantage as well. Only advantage of an M14 would be wall penetration, but that's of dubious real value if you aren't 100% sure there is a target on the other side of the wall to shoot at.
>>64293730
They experimented with that back in the 60s with dismal results. Backwards compatibility to 7.62x51mm might be more useful there, but still a lot of recoil. The M7 seems to be going nowhere since the primary rationale was encountering enemies with ceramic armor which is just not the threat profile being encountered in modern warfare.
The best fix seems to be to dump the M7 altogether and use what they learned for other projects. Sig needs the money though, so they are paying out bribes to keep it alive.
>>64291942
Couple hundred at least if it's an all day thing.
>>64291588
You don't. Either inspect the gun in person and pay cash or you are going to get ripped off.

>>64296061
Before. If you are the one selling don't ship anything until you're sure payment has cleared. It's standard practice that if someone pays by check/MO that there is a waiting period to make sure the check clears before the seller ships.

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Hello anons, have any of you owned or fired a Beretta 21A bobcat? I've never owned a .22 but I have never fired a Beretta that I didn't take a shine to, I imagine this would be the same, but maybe someone can give me a breakdown on any unique issues the bobcat has.

Slugs or buckshot in an HD 12 gauge?

I live in a brick house, so I don't think overpenetration should be a problem.

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>>64296855
It gets dirty fast when silenced. The sights are pretty short, so even 1" tube silencers won't let you see (pic is shooped but more or less what you see IRL). It never really gets quiet enough to the point I think silencing it would be worth it. Weirdly enough I looked through the archives and I apparently said it (the volume reduction) was "nice" the first time I silenced it? It wrecked my fucking ears like throwing one of those red stick impact bang-snaps in a concrete garage, what the fuck did I mean by "nice"? Lol; I doubt I misremembered but maybe I've started to exaggerate. Burt does agree, though, for what that's worth. Great gun despite my failed attempt to silence it and the safety can be applied both when cocked and uncocked. Not sure how Beretta recommends use of the safety (hammer down or hammer cocked). If you intend to carry it, I might recommend the non-threaded version to save half an inch. Hard to say. That half inch may get you some velocity, though. It's a nice pocket gun, if a little loud. Comfy to handle. If I remember right it's pretty damn accurate for its size. Nice gun to throw in your pocket when taking the trash out at night or something. Good trapline gun (if a hair loud; would recommend muffs if you used it like that), like a modern replacement for the Mossberg Brownie. Or it would be if my state didn't disallow semi-auto handguns for trapline dispatch...because you might miss or something? Or you might fill it full of holes as a trapper concerned for the quality of a pelt? You know, unlike the DA 9 shot 22LR revolver or semi auto rifle you're allowed for the same use.

>>64297090

Do you think the weird barrel action it has is why it's difficult to suppress the sound? Also, what can did you use?

Thank you for all the feedback, though, this is helpful. I suspect that the extra half inch on the threaded version may actually give a slight help to the gas action and make it a bit less finicky to shoot.

Any reason I shouldn't buy a Bergara B-14 HMR in .308 for $1050? Uses are target shooting at 200 yards and hunting once a year. I inherited a shitload of 308 ammo but the rifle (Remington 700) is rusted into oblivion and want a decent replacement without spending a huge amount.

Is there a time limit on how long you have to restore your gun rights?

I had a couple involuntary commitments, but I'd like to be able to buy and shoot guns again, I just don't know if I'm running out of time or not.

>>64297172
I think it being open top blowback (?) with a small light slide doesn't help silencing it. Hard to say, only pistol I've ever tried to silence as I really only have old guns with no threaded barrels lol. For reference here's Burt's thoughts as he's more into handguns than I am:
>The super short barrel means you have powder burning after the bullet leaves the muzzle, meaning even subsonic ammo is louder than it would be out of a longer barrel. This is even worse with regular/supersonic ammo as you have that much more powder exploding outside the barrel making it louder still. The little tiny slide opens quicker than heavy slides as well which means more port pop, and the open top also allows more noise to escape omnidirectionally from the ejection port. All of this to say I think it's one of the WORST suppressor hosts out there! Doesn't mean it's not still fun and it doesn't mean he's right to say it isn't hearing safe but come on man just about every other .22 pistol is a better silencer host
>You're not gonna tell me it's as quiet as a gun with an enclosed slide like my Mark or my TX22 where sound can't easily diffuse in all directions, I can hear the difference. Heck I can hear the difference between my TX22 with an enclosed slide and my TX22 Competition with an open top slide
Silencer I tried is a SIG SRD22x. Like the silencer. Would love a second, but, you know, SIG. Also it really isn't that much cheaper than a Mask HD despite being smaller diameter+welded base. I love the look want 1-2 more but the wrench is cheese-grade plastic garbage. Might've tried a Mask HD. The latch does have a (pretty impressive) weight limit; only one guy seems to have found it and it was using a huge ~18" M16 repro silencer IIRC. Didn't break it, just kept tipping open after each shot, lol. Can't find the video unfortunately (NFA Review Channel?). Here is one with a SIG SRD22x:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCdsgqDFAL4
I should try silencing it again.

>>64291942
Whatever makes you comfortable anon. Easy to chew through secession hundred in an ask day event. Depends on the gun though. My .300wby ill do 10-15 max before putting it away.

Looking for someone who knows anything about debanning an SA93. Picked one up on auction, never had the lower tang added on. Looking for someone who did what ironwood designs did before he passed, or a way to add the tang.

>>64297058
Low recoil buckshot is the standard HD load.

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>>64298110
So you're saying these are overkill then?

What about dragon's breath?

>>64291942
That really depends on what guns you are shooting.
I usually shoot a few hundred at a range trip, but that's because I'm bringing multiple guns at least some of which have cheap ammo, and it's most likely a semi-social thing too where friends are involved.
If you have just one gun then most of that doesn't matter. How much you shoot will depend on what that gun is. Shooting the average 9mm pistol? You're probably shooting 100 rounds or more. Snubnose airweight revolver or a big boi hunting rifle? You're not going to be shooting 100 rounds out of either of those in a sitting unless you're a recoil junkie.

>>64298139
>tfw I'll never smoke off a whole spam can through my nugget in one day

My shoulder would be absolutely fucking shrekt, but it would be so worth it.

What kinds of small arms do US tankers get these days? Are they cramming full sized M4's in there?

>>64290531
Have you guys messed with McMillan stocks? I heard they were bought out. I'm on the fence for a McMillan or an EBR chassis.

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can someone ID this gun?

>>64299104
Famas, clearly.

JK I think its a Valmet variant. I looked it up, its an FFV 890 - a Swedish clone of the valmet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFV_890

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Can you recommend a good pair of headsets that have both noise cancelling audio to hear people around you and bluetooth for listening to music at the range?

>>64299172
Impact sports has an Aux cord if you don't mind that. Its not super clear though.

>>64299148
thanks anon!

>>64297058
Buckshot is still the go to for energy transfer. If a slug rips clean through the guy it's still wasting energy out the other side.
>>64297315
Those are solid rifles, but there's a lot of worthwhile competitors to examine. Some of which are cheaper. Howa 1500, Tikka T3X, etc. Or get a battle rifle and then you'll rip through that ammo in no time. I recommend a Century CA-3.
>>64297349
That's a lawyer question because it depends a lot on your legal jurisdiction (for instance the laws vary on this a LOT from one state to another), time-frames and if courts were involved. There's a very real chance you are perma-fucked here, but you won't know one way or the other until you pony up some cash and talk to an actual attorney.
Yes it's expensive.
Yes you should listen to what they say.
No, you don't know better.
No, ChatGPT, Google or the voices in your head don't know better than an actual attorney either.
If you aren't sure, consult with another attorney.
>>64298127
Dragons breath is a meme, plus a potential risk of starting a fire in your house which is sub optimal.
>>64299148
That's actually pretty neat, looks like a missing link between Valmet and the Galil.

>>64299241
>Dragons breath is a meme, plus a potential risk of starting a fire in your house which is sub optimal.
But I can't let my memes be dreams.

Plus, my apartment is total fuckin shit anyway. The world would be a better place without it.

What's going on these days with Remington? I get they've gone bankrupt (again), but you can't find a single 870 literally anywhere. Has Rem Arms finally kicked the bucket for good? Is Mossberg the only one left in the budget game?

>>64300106
There are hundreds of 870's on Gunbroker right now.

Reposting
>>64300775
>>64300781

>>64300787
Never mind, I'm a retard. It's under the dust cover

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Stupid idiot chatnigger won't answer me. What does it take to peirce level 4 plates?

>>64301045
.50 BMG APIT will get the job done.

>>64301045
AI retard. You could easily find this out on your own. I'm really glad the tech industry has shifted to incompetents like you.

>>64301045
Even if it would answer you, why on earth would you trust what it tells you given how often it gets very basic shit wrong and the fact you left out all the important information from your question (range, angle)?

>>64301246
>I'm really glad the tech industry has shifted to incompetents like you.
I'm not. Haven't you noticed how all the idiot-proofing has made searches so bad these days?

>>64301257
I was being sarcastic, but, yes I absolute hate it. I also hate how its infiltrated basic shit like adobe acrobat or Microsoft office. Its annoying as shit and gets in the way.

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>>64301251
>>64301246
I just want to write accurately

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How the hell do i sell a gun.
>armslist, useless because of scammers
>tacswap, useless because of scammers
>local shops, useless because they lowball you

>>64301532
Be patient with Armslist. Its easy to not get scammed. Just don't ship and meet in a public, open place. If you have a state specific gun trading website, like Texas or Florida gun trader, your best bet will be there.

>>64301532
Find a local gunshow. Even if you have to drive an hour away. Alternatively, if you socialize, make it known to the people you interact with that you have a gun for sale. Someone might be interested

>>64301478
Do you not have any critical thinking skills? Walk me through what you're thinking.

>>64301598
>our idiot savant protag accidentally stubles into a CIA blackop to assassinate a politician
>completes assignment perfectly
>goes to "collect the money"
>two cia niggers (the ones who blackmailed him into the job in the first place) meet him to pay up (jack ruby the protag)
>cianiggers meet him on a backroad with a briefcase of shredded newspaper
>protag exits vehicle and literally immediately opens fire on niggers
>steals their vehicle and drives away
>both niggers are left gasping and writhing on the road
>medical examination afterwords determines the handgun used was so absolutely OP that it nearly penetrated their lv4 plates, leaving comically large bruises on the niggers' chests
>niggers slowly realize they accidentally created a moster who is now serially killing politicians
>book is them attempting to stop him

>>64301628
Oh, forgot to add, every gun and modification is based in reality. Rates of fire, bullet weights, velocity, trajectory, ect. Entirely believable for /k/ommandos who might read it

>>64301545
Yeah, in the first place I dont like the idea of having to ship stuff. You think it'd be insulting to bring one of those markers that check for fake bills? lol
>>64301546
There's going to be a show here next month on the 4th and 5th so I might try my luck there. Though, I always hear/read a lot of posts of people complaining about gun shows. And unfortunately the only black man I know already has an AK. No one else i know personally would want it. Spoke to a dude today while at a shop and he was pretty interested in my gun/ammo but said he couldn't afford. Shoulda got his number...

>>64301628
this video is basically exactly what you describe

https://youtu.be/pRRr-DGmg-o

he shows the armor at 2:50 and shoots it with a 500 magnum at 10:10

>>64300106
They're being brought back little by little. One company bought the ammo manufacturing portion, PSA bought H&R from them (and bought NoDakSpud to rebrand as H&R), Ruger bought Marlin from them, and another bought the firearms manufacturing portion. Original "Remington Arms" is a dead company (well, now for real) and it's split into Remington Ammunition (Vista Outdoors) and RemArms (Roundhill Group). So between that and the fact that they moved out of Ilion NY in 2024 I'd say they're probably still way behind on production, not to mention it is RIGHT NOW the time that everything starts to disappear off shelves because of all the last minute hunters getting ready. Haven't heard a fucking peep with anything to do with the quality of the 870s coming out of Remington right now. Everyone knows that you want to avoid the Cerberus ("Freedom") Group era (~2007-2018) in Remington firearms as well as Marlin when they got bought and moved. But as for what the quality is like after they went bankrupt and got split up? Who knows. I just bought a 90s police surplus Police Magnum so I know I can shoot 3" and steel out of it and additionally not have any issues unlike the Rustington (Cerberus) era.

Also asking here I guess. I want to sell my 7.62x39 to a friend, how much should I charge per round? 1k of Wolf which i know is shit, 500 Golden Tiger. I was thinking about just doing 50 cents per for all 1500

>>64301779
>markers that check for fake bills
Nah, I mean I never used that, but I've sold a lot of guns but wouldn't mind it if they wanted to. At most the biggest precaution I would take would to do a joint bill of sale and get the guy's actual information. Just meet someone in plain daylight, my preferred place is an academy or Walmart, but I've met people outside police stations by request of the other party. Anyway, don't ship because on armslist there's no recourse if you get ripped off.

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Isn't Oscar a bit of a poor choice for the phonetic alphabet? In "proper" English the opening O sounds more like an A (Ah-scurr), the way Euros pronounce it (Oss-kar) actually makes more sense. Why didn't they go with a more straightforward word like Ocean or Office?

Is anyone familiar with ar-15 gas tubes that are both straight AND melonite/nitride coated or made of inconel? I can find normal curved gas tubes with the melonite and nitride coating all over the place, and V seven has an inconel offering, but the only straight gas tubes I can find are just SS

>>64301634
>every gun and modification is based in reality
The hell it is. .500 Magnum is powerful, but it's both weaker than (in terms of raw power) and nowhere near as good at penetrating armor as a .30-06 AP, and level 4 is rated to stop that. This is nowhere close to making logical sense. Anything large enough to leave massive bruises through a plate would be impossible for your protagonist to fire without causing worse injury to himself. It's plausible that your protag might have some kind of weapon that is a threat to lvl 4 plates, but that threat would be penetrating the plates with a tiny super high velocity projectile, not a .500.

>>64302299
They did pick the more straightforward word--for the most people. Oscar is known as a name in many languages, and was a lot more common back then than it is today. "Office" and "ocean" only make more sense from the perspective of an English speaker.

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How common is PEDs/TRT in special operations?

>>64303510
So a tokarev with depleted uranium bullets?

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Anyone have any tips on how to shoot with glasses on? I got a slight riser for my optic and it's helped a little bit. Was wondering if there are any other tips and tricks?
>inb4 just get better eyes

>>64306592
I have glasses too. What problems are you having exactly? I dont think I've really had any

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how am I supposed to know where my holster should go? a leather holster costs like $100, what if I buy a certain type and don't like it?
I'm taking my ruger GP100 camping and can't decide on a side holster or crossdraw. or even a chest holster! how can I know which one works best for me without buying all of them and trying them all out, then being left with several I will never use?

>>64307521
Lots of gun stores will let you try out holsters in-store, and they often have dummy guns (blue plastic) for exactly this purpose. You can also make a ghetto approximation of the holster you are curious about out of cardboard to experiment with patterns. Clearly you can't wear that long-term but you can at least fool around with what seems comfortable to you.

>>64307293
I'm kinda curious too. I also wear glasses and I don't have to do anything special to use them. About the only thing I can think of that might be an issue is if you wear fashion styled glasses with very narrow lenses it can be difficult to look through a scope at some angles, like shooting prone. Your mention of a riser makes me think that could be an issue?

When storing ammo in containers, do you keep them in the packaging or dump them out?

>>64308876
I keep them in the packaging. It makes it clear what exactly the ammo is (grain weight, bullet type, velocity, shot size, etc.), provides a clue to the age of the ammo, and keeps it organized in convenient to grab quantities.
I've never understood the point of dumping it out. What does that achieve? I get that cheap ammo is often sold loose because that saves money on packaging, but I don't understand the purpose of dumping ammo out of boxes unless you're actively loading a bunch of mags with it right then and there.

Does anyone have the ND pasta on hand?

>>64309609
They've happened a few times

At friends apartment at college. Just bought my first pistol from a gun show (I was 18) Drinking with friends Show them my new Jericho Try to manually decock Thumb slips on hammer, ND into celling Upstairs neighbors too high and drunk (underage and illegal drugs) to call the police.

Second time

At range Showing friend pistol Think gun is unloaded Point at ground show him how to wrack and pull the trigger. Forgot loaded mag in Shoot between his feet

Third time

At parents house. Just bought a sig from a guy Get home Try swapping slides with another sig I had Forgot the other sig slide was chambered. Pull trigger Shoot parents wall

Fourth time

At my new house Playing with a friend's 5.56 AK Release bolt Slam fires round into ground

Fith time

Showing a friend how to use it No idea how but a round got chambered Show him how the trigger works, Pull trigger Shoots round into floor in the same place as before

Sixth time

Thought maybe the house was haunted Grab a sig Physically clear it, (racked the slide 3 times) with no magazine in pull trigger at the same hole Round goes off

Seventh time

Friend brings over a used Glock wants me to look over it I grab it and pull the trigger without clearing it Didn't even realize the thing was loaded.

Eighth time

Friend brings over his transferable Mac 10 I had no idea how open bolt guns worked. He's showing it off to me I put a loaded mag it and decided to try and release the bolt (I thought it shot from a closed bolt) Pulled the trigger for some reason Shot 3 rounds into my wall

Overall you shouldn't feel too bad about NDs. It's part of owning guns, and you should get used to them.

Am I crazy or are the Glock pmags a pain in the ass to load compared to factory?

>>64310335
they are. Use the loading tool that came with your gun

>ask question on r*ddit
>sub is full of people jerking off over their gear
>question ignored
>ask question here
>get called retard but given helpful responses
What causes this

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After tariffs, what would you value a VZ 61 in good condition? Around 1k?

>>64308876
Either in the packaging or loaded in mags in the box. Never loose if I have the option.

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>>64306592
Sports glasses with some kind of band. I have an ancient frame I get new lenses in every year or two. Not ANZI but it's like 1/4 inch polycarbonate so I'm fine with it. Better for anything active but also for guns. They lenses sit closer to your face to avoid tapping on a scope and they don't slide down when you get sweaty.

>>64311965
Build one from a kit, it'll be way cheaper

>>64312008
I have one already, have been toying around the idea of selling it and need to put a price on it

>>64311965
>>64312016
Fuddbroker has them priced around that point, so I guess it'd be a fair ask.

No FRT specific thread, someone else pls make one.
Do any companies make AR-10 SS?

>>64306592
>>64307293
Its mainly just shouldering my rifle. I try to get a cheek weld and the brim of my glasses hits the stock. I've somewhat fixed the problem but putting optic on a slightly higher mount.

>>64308876
In ammo can & in original box. Some box sizes can be a bitch in certain cans and that's just the way it is, so have a variety at hand and don't be afraid to experiment with can and orientation. Some brands of a certain caliber are a bitch in some cans and others aren't due to packaging or ammo count differences. 22LR gets bought in bulk (250/500rd boxes) that contain the ammo in a sealed bag. Sealed bag gets the lot number written on it and thrown in a 30 cal ammo can. Should be able to fit somewhere around 1500-2000rds/can IIRC. I don't like mixing lot numbers (good luck knowing which 50rds might be ones from a recalled lot in a can with ammo freely dumped in it!) or having the possibility of mixing old and new manufacture ammo (if powder charge, bullet design, bullet weight, etc. changes). When removing the bulk bag from the box before storing or even not, I like to use something like a label maker (stamp or print, choose one) or a marker of some kind like a paint pen to mark what is in which can. Write down caliber, brand, bullet weight, FPS. Stop buying that ammo? Great, isopropyl alcohol takes that shit right off and you can write something else on it. Alcohol can eat some paints, though, so be careful.

>>64311874
Maybe the limited threads alive (catalog order determined by reply activity) vs voting and posts living as long as a comment has been made within x days? Idunno; I think it's a board culture thing, too. I doubt anyone actually looks in the stickied QTDDTOT style posts over there and /k/ really doesn't have anywhere near as many self-fellating "look at my cool new shit I paid far too much for" posts, either. I mean, we still post our cool shit we paid way too much for, sure, but that generally goes in threads related to it unless it's something fucking insane (ie. anon inheriting a retarded amount of guns, many of which are rare as fuck or someone buying something not just uncommon but genuinely rare and interesting as fuck).

>>64312102
Yeah, their pinned FAQ posts are literally useless. Asked a question in r/guns or whatever, several responses were just "read the FAQ", which I did. It's several years old and links to posts that no longer exist. I don't get how these people function. updoots make it worse

>>64312313
Haha, then ask in the "(this month)'s FAQ thread" QTDDTOT equivalent and there's 4 comments and no one replies because ain't no one clicking on that pinned shit at the top. Or "if you have to ask then you don't have the skills to do it and you're gonna hurt yourself just get someone else to fix it" no matter the topic or collector's circle. My favorite is when it's in a collector's circle where just about all the techs that would fix such a thing are dead or retired and the only people who know about them are the people who worked on them back in the day and still do it as a hobby (but never ever teach even if they have a youtube channel). Or in hobbies that no one will do repairs to existing pieces, only new work, and gaining knowledge is like pulling teeth and is a 10+ year process. Ah, the modern internet. So many people, so little knowledge. Almost perfectly describes everything IRL, too.

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If I buy a USP for Misato larp, will I regret getting a compact over the full-size?

>>64312955
Do you want if for the look or do you want it to shoot?
If it's the look just buy what misato had.
If it's to shoot doesn't matter both are ehh. Like they work they work flawlessly but they they don't feel good to shoot. It's just underwhelming disappointment. For what you pay you think it should be really nice but they aren't.

>>64312050
AR-10 uses the exact same trigger parts as an AR-15.

>>64312347
>Ah, the modern internet. So many people, so little knowledge
The problem is the internet is EASY, so people are drawn to it. There are a lot of gun topics where you could get your answer much faster by visiting a library and opening a book made of paper, but people won't do that because muh going outside social anxiety or someshit. Or maybe it's just ignorance. But there's an awful lot of gun info that's just sitting there on paper because it's not old enough to be out of copyright, while at the same time it's not trending in current discussion.

Gaining knowledge has ALWAYS required work.

>>64301934
Don't be a Jew. 30 CPR for the wolf, 44 for the golden tiger. Anything higher than that and you're speaking Hebrew.

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for reasons i can't adequately explain, i have a massive preference for bolt rifles with full stocks that extend all the way up to the muzzle, instead of just stopping halfway up the barrel. What are some modern manufacturers that still produce this sort of thing?

>>64313382
>with full stocks that extend all the way up to the muzzle,
There's a term for that: Mannlicher stock

Very few modern makers do that. The purpose of the wood going that far up was to reinforce the barrel and make it easier to grab for bayonet fighting. It harms accuracy since it's the exact opposite of a free-floated barrel, but back in the day bayonet fighting was considered more important. Nowadays bayonets are pretty much a nothingburger so there's little desire to min-max the gun in their favor.

That said, the nice thing about wood is it can be shaped into anything. You could easily have a mannlicher stock made for whatever bolt-action rifle you like.

>>64313212
Oh, I thought all the lower parts were upscaled. Cool.

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Should the weak fear the strong?

>>64296855
Mines is ammo picky and has light strike issues in double action. Accuracy is awful with most bulk ammo. Accuracy and reliability with federal punch is excellent. The tip up barrel is more novelty than practical as it lacks an extractor and barrel mounted ejector. The lack of an extractor means you can’t cycle the slide to clear a dud or failure to eject. The lack of a barrel mounted ejector means the gun doesn’t behave like a break action gun and eject fired cases when the barrel is tipped. You can force feed sub sonics and shorts easily with the tip up barrel, but then you will have to pull out the case with your finger nail. Overall the gun is fun but isn’t something I would rely on.

>>64314787

Thanks anon, I went to purchase and discovered they developed an updated version just this year, the 20x! It has heightened dovetail sights that won't be occluded by a suppressor, and a bit more bulk to give it a sturdier frame, plus a few ergonomic improvements on the mag release and tip up mechanism. I will replace the polymer and plastic shit with steel or wood over time as I'm able, because I think that's my only reservation about the new design. Not sure how long it'll take for steel mags and a wider selection of grips to hit the market, but I can be patient, or maybe try to make something myself.

Is the FCU out of a P365 CA Compliant the same as a normal, unfucked P365? Could a Californian theoretically buy a P365 CA and the parts to make it a P365 non-CA?

>>64315138
On the 21a, most small parts are compatible with the 3032, I put a 3032 wood grip and extended safety on my 21a. The 20x and30x probably share parts and grips too.

>>64315146
No, the CA version has a magazine disconnect. It supposedly can be removed by punching out a roll pin. After removal, non CA triggers and grip modules can be used. BUT, removing the magazine disconnect may make the gun illegible for ccw depending on your issuing agency.

>>64313382
This guy makes custom stocks, he might have that or a similar option. You could also email and inquire.
I'm eyeing their monte carlo stock for my sks, but I also want to ask if they can make the butt-hole for the cleaning tube and if they can add a groove along the fore-end like their paratrooper option has
>https://www.luckyshotwoodstocks.com/

>>64314020
No, but they should understand that the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must

>>64315367

They do - in fact I'm p sure the 20x and 30x have the same exact frame. But both were released just this year I think, and so Beretta is offering some factory wood grips and spare polymer mags, but not much else, for now. I think they are trying to get ahead of the suppressor/NFA stuff (and responding to past complaints) with the threaded barrels and raised sights, so I suspect that if these are as popular as the old bobs and toms were, they will make a wider range of accessories and aftermarket options will broaden. I like that the new standard mags have a pinky grip, but would still want an option to have a flush one in order to help CC a bit better, especially with them widening the grip. If anyone has a gunsmith or parts maker or anything they would recommend, please drop a line.

>>64292582
>>64293722
>>64296134
These guys are so retarded. Go to AR15.com or akfiles or any of the other dozens of large forums with B/S/T and people sell guns online and use PayPal/zelle/etc all the fucking time for payment. Yeah it has to ship to a FFL of course but as far as payment goes the online payment services work fine. Some ppl prefer USPS money orders but I’ve bought and sold probably over 10 guns through forums and have always used PayPal friends and family (NO NOTES) or Zelle.
Just only buy from people with a lot of positive feedback, history on the site, etc. and make sure to ask every clarifying questions and get as many photos as you can before buying.

>>64315681
Online payment services like PayPal and Zelle specifically disallow guns. They also charge a hefty fee. You shouldn't give them any of your business.

Agreed about asking questions & getting as many photos as possible before buying.

>>64315945
Zelle doesn't charge any fees. The issue with it is that whoever bought the gun from you might try to say that the transaction was fraudulent and get it reversed.

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is it really true that, if you can actually get a gun legally in the u.k, buying/owning a suppressor is as easy as buying some fish n chips at the local kebab shop. and in some areas, you are actually required to have one to hunt because of sound issues.
i read a comment saying that the only thing you need to do to purchase a suppressor over there is prove you own a gun (legally) in the caliber of the suppressor your going to buy

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>>64316851
A silencer may take up a slot on your loicense IIRC but I can't say for sure not being from there. I only know a (probably very) telephoned version of what I've read or been told by those in the UK despite my LARPing (pic). Also what the fuck has it seriously been 2 years since we've had a /k/angaroo and /ukg/ thread or is the archive search (or my keywords) just retarded? /ukg/ used to have a what is/isn't legal chart (and under what loicenses) and it might contain the info you want.

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>>64316851
You may also want to skim TGS as I get a good bit of knowledge from this channel. I wish I could remember where I heard about it taking up a slot. It may also be one of those silly things where if it's a factory integral it only takes one slot (gun+silencer) rather than two (gun, silencer) but we're talking something I learned years ago, if I remembered it correctly, if it was even right in the first place, and if it's even up to date. Wish I could remember other UK channels and possible gun law sources ATM.
https://www.youtube.com/@tgsoutdoors/videos

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more of a response then i was expecting. not euro, just was curious. anything about, uh...down under?

the man went two decades before sucking cock. can you say the same

Could the fire control group on the RXM potentially mean caliber changes in the future if someone thought there was money in it? I know there's limits on the Glock brand Glock frames

Is there a bug-out general anymore, or has it been absorbed into /gq/? I'm trying to put together my ruck but also trying to figure out what items I can stash at my office in the northern part of my state

>>64317686
>the man went two decades before sucking cock
whomst? I want to read about his tragic tale

>>64290531

What is the best .22 revolver that retails under $300

>>64318520

There isn't, but idk if I would say it's part of /gq/ either, they mostly deliberate on plates, optics, and rigs, none of which feels like that much of a priority to me, at least, in a bug out.

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>>64317686
>down under?
You mean Australia? They're using cope cages on their heads to defend against Magpie attacks.

>>64290531
I am having a kid and am turning a room into their room. It has had lead ammunition in the room, particularly a cupboard, how should I clean it?

>>64319466
>>64321835

>>64322495
I assume this ammo was in boxes of some kind? Unless you were rubbing bare lead bullets on the cabinet surfaces there's nothing to clean.

If you're paranoid just repaint the cupboard.

>>64322821
Yeah, usually in boxes or loose spent brass cartridges

Is there any kind of super gucchi .22 cartridge brand that fires as reliably as center fire cartridges?
.22 Magnum is pretty impressive in its ballistic performance, but I would need to be convinced to use a rimfire for anything more serious that varmint removal.
>inb4 5.56/5.7

>>64323006
The match competition ammo, Eley Tenex for example is a lot more reliable than most 22LR. However, it's also low velocity because match shooters don't want the transition from supersonic to subsonic fucking up their groups, and it will be just plain bullets as well, no hollow point or other more effective design.

How much of a point of aim/impact shift would there be at 100 yds for 55gr and 77grs? Stocking up on 77 and thinking about buying cheap 55 for training/plinking ammo

>>64323025
That doesn't necessarily help though. That match ammo almost never has missing primer compound so it will go bang more often than commodity ammo. However, it's also weak, and many semiauto 22's don't like standard velocity ammo. The ignition being reliable doesn't help if your gun requires more power to cycle reliably.

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Is is just me or are the ammo zergs really bad this year?
>go to check zero on durr rifle
>set down box of ammo on wood pile while I go hang targets (150 yards)
>get back
>see this shit
motherfuckers already got about 6 rounds before I caught 'em

If you were writing a sci-fi novel, set in, lets say, 2200-2300, where you have 99% light speed ships and they're still basically 'generational' ones for long distances... What weapons do you give the guys on the ships? Obviously projectile weaponry is never going to go away since throwing a bit of metal (or whatever) fast is just physics, short of some really crazy sci-fi shit, if one bit of metal doesn't work you make it bigger and throw it faster and it'll eventually get through something physical... But what would you expect calibre wise to have in 23rd or 24th century? Would you expect people to be rocking 5.56 or whatever still 'assault rifles' or would you expect there to be something else?

>>64323006
I want to say 22lr Federal Punch is super reliable, but I have only gone through about a hundred rounds so I don’t have enough numbers to be conclusive. It works perfectly in my pistol and revolver that have light strike issues with other ammo. But the cost is absurd and reaches 9mm territory. 22mag in general seems to be reliable. I have shot about 1500 rounds recently of 22 mag and had zero duds. I only had a few that had reduced velocity.

>>64324002
Retard /lit/ question but if you want people to still be using "conventional" firearms far in the future you could have stuff like 3 millimeter telescoped ammunition with some bullshit sci-fi hyper propellant with a 150 round magazine that goes onto the gun like a P90 mag. Or they could just be using AR-15's like they will in real life.

>>64324402
I mean it wasn't really about /lit/, since it is weapons related. I was just saying and you kinda answered it at the end with
>we'll probably just being using AR-15 (or variant of) firing 5.56 or something
I specifically didn't want any sci-fi future 'it technically works if you say the material and manufacturing ability is there'. I just wanted relative grounded and if 5.56 is just 'good enough' then fine. I didn't really wanna go into .277 or Sneedmore or whatever but I just wondered if you thought you could.

>>64323990
Ammo stealing bugs?

>landlord's autistic cat scrambled into my room while he was inspecting to make sure I wasn't making a mess of my room
>crawled onto my bed and started grooming itself on my inherited woobie from my late grandpa
>cat is now fixated on the woobie and looking for any opportunity to break into my room to get onto it
>claws out and latches on when I try to remove it
What do, /k/?

>>64324731
Keep your clothes in the closet and close the door.

>>64324731
Leave catnip somewhere away from your room so it fucks off over there instead

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>>64290531
anybody have any clue what this is? I assumed it was the mech tech conversion kit for glocks but it looks nothing like it when I looked it up

>>64301532
TACSWAP or local classifieds desu is private sales in your area are easy. There's this site called shipmygun that I tried using once and it always sketched me with my states very specific (retarded) way of handling gun shipping so I add my FFLs fee and just make them send it out.

>>64325382
its some 3d printed abortion work in progress from that 3d bullpup guy

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what do you call this optic mount?

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>>64290531
>5-6k crew
How the FUCK does this work? I've lived in villages with a tenth of that population. What's the atmosphere like? Is it like a tightly packed building? A town? A small city? I do not understand.

>>64325424
gooseneck mount

>>64325382
>using blur or pixelation over your face in 2011+14
>after every retard has realized how you can straight up reverse it with pretty good results
ISHYGDDT

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What is the circled part on the receiver supposed to be?

>>64325791
I've seen people reverse swirls. I'm incredibly skeptical you can reverse a face based off such gigantic pixelation.

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>>64325791
Some kind of inventory tag? Here's one off an Iraqi contractor WASR.

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>>64326168
>>64326270
Fuck I replied to the wrong post. Have another.

>>64326260
The size of the pixels would make it pretty hard but at this point I just wouldn't tempt fate. Do some funny shit like replace your face with someone else's and pixelate, sure, but if you don't want your face associated with a certain account or project then it's best to not even put any part of it, pixelated, blurred, or not, in the first place. Not too long ago even those whose job it was to know things like this didn't realize a swirl could be reversed despite it being a pretty common math-based (ie. not random) effect. Nowadays, some pixelation or blurring can be reversed, but it's pretty early on and not well known. The more times you post a pixelated or blurred face, the more data you give people to work from, as well. I know there's a pic of a mosaic or blurred face that's been reversed rather well, albeit with some noise, that I used to see posted here a lot as a "don't fucking trust blur or pixelation". That pic is several years old at this point and the tech just keeps getting better. IMO, better to not even give data at all than hope you're doing good enough. Whether they only need one good (poorly pixelated/undersized pixels) pic or several to build off, I still wouldn't tempt fate. Kinda (un?)related, I've seen more than enough people "scribble out" serial numbers, names, or other important info with standard Android pic editing tools as well. Often they don't cover the tops or bottoms of the characters so they're easily distinguished if you have the font and the time. Or my favorite, the marker tool they select is semi-transparent, oh man.

This video is pretty good IIRC. Watched it a while back. Yes, it uses video (lots of data) instead of photos (one frame) but still. We're getting to that point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKYYwcxpGk

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>>64290531
If you convert your USC upper to take UMP mags, can you still use USC mags in it as well?

>>64325564
>What's the atmosphere like?
>I do not understand.
It's a lot like like a small city. Each of the big divisions is kind of like its own small neighborhood with its own rules. It divides up (roughly) as
>Squadrons
>Reactor department
>Ship's Supply and admin
>cooks
>Aviation Supply
>Bridge and Intel crew, including the Task Force command
>Ordnance and armory
>deckhands and machinists
>Avionics
>Plane engine shop and parachute/ejection techs (they work right next to each other in the ass end of the boat)
All of those groups share a berthing. Imagine a room the size of a very small house or large apartment with ~60-80 people sleeping in rows of bunks stacked three deep. You get a locker under the bunk and another next to it, plus whatever space you can carve out of your working area. There's almost no privacy, extremely limited internet, and hobbies need to be compact. Very senior enlisted men and junior officers share rooms with a much smaller number of guys, and the most senior officers get a small room to themselves. There are a lot of common areas on the ship, most notably in the hangar decks, library/chapel, gym, smoking sponson, and mess deck (three VERY large dining rooms, under the hangar bays, with a pair of kitchens running up it like a spine). The library is fucking miserable on a Nimitz because it's in-between the steam vessels for the catapult, so it's always hot as fuck and 90% humidity. Other than that, areas where you don't work are generally off-limits. Day and Night shifts work together for a couple hours a day, other than that you do a lot of handing off logbooks.
Every so often there will be all-hands holidays, usually involves a special meal and meeting up on either the hangar or flight deck, it's the only time you seriously mingle with everyone

>>64326561
>>64325564
Oh, and I forgot Medical and IT divisions, they're often some very weird people. Weirder than the nukes and the electronics repair guys, if you can imagine.
For the big divisions they have several separate berthings and assign people hodge-podge between them. There's a bit of wheeling and dealing when the ship gets underway - tall guys want the top bunk so they can hang their feet out, short ones want the bottom or middle because nobody wants to climb up five feet of ladder if they don't have to, if you want to sleep cold you look for a vent next to the bed, nobody wants to sleep next to the shitter, that sort of thing. On that topic.. bathrooms/heads. Enlisted ones are basically just public bathrooms with steel floors and a few shower stalls. You have to time showers carefully, because fresh water is rationed and there are sixty other motherfuckers who have to shit and shower in that same space. The heads on the messdecks are showerless and inevitably the worst ones on the ship, because they get the most traffic.

Every day everyone on the ship who's not currently doing something absolutely critical spends an hour or so cleaning the whole ship from top to bottom. It's amazing how fast a ship gets dirty, especially in the Middle East. Everything on the ship has a maintenance schedule, and people get assigned parts of it (E.G.: on my first boat, I had the job of cleaning and inspecting/repairing and replacing every step and handrail on the ladders between my shop and the berthing, on my second I was assigned to help maintain the shelving and lockers in the parts/documents room, on the third I was senior enough that I was inspecting other peoples' maintenance). You also do frequent drills simulating stuff like fires, men overboard, various emergencies, anything to keep people on their toes. One of the other not-quite-social groups is your damage control team, you train together a hell of a lot.

>>64326604
>>64325564
There are a lot of little things that you sort of take for granted when you're not in a giant floating airbase. Food in particular is a lot of work. You have set times you can pick up food, partly-related to your department and work shifts. There's one mess line out of the six general enlisted ones that does something extremely quick to serve and eat - probably spaghetti - if you only have enough time to run down, scarf, and run back. They also do dinner on two lines in the morning and breakfast on two for the evening meal, to accommodate night-shifters. You very quickly get a feel for what times and which lines demand is highest at, it's no fun standing in line for 30-35 minutes when you only have 45 to eat. Laundry is basically handled by shoving all your shit in a bag, sending it to the back of the boat, and hoping that they sort it correctly when the bag comes back.
If you've got any other specific questions about shipboard living I can drop back in tomorrow.

>>64325791
Then reverse it since it's so easy to do

>>64323215
Not a whole ton of difference at 100yd since that is fairly close, but there are a lot of variables such as barrel length that play into it. Best bet is to actually shoot both at the same target on the same day and note the difference. You don't need to invest in a whole case of ammunition to do that.
>>64324731
Cats are like toddlers only they can jump 5 feet in the air and have claws. You need to lock everything up or else they get at it.
>>64325424
Those are called gooseneck mounts, for obvious reasons.
>>64325564
It's pretty much a floating city/naval airbase complete with every type of service necessary for the ship to function and the people living onboard to relax when not working. It isn't a cruise ship, so the objective isn't to be nice to live on but they do try to make it bearable. It is indeed quite crowded because most of the room is taken up by aircraft and equipment to load/maintain/operate said aircraft.

Is there any reason to buy a more expensive stripped lower for an AR or is it just a waste of money. I feel like there wouldn't be any tangible differences between two identical pieces of machined aluminum.

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>>64329626
they are never identical. this doesnt mean more expensive = better.
you will have differences on how it meets up with the upper.
you could have a creditcard sized gap or it might end up with minimal play.
it might end up with no gap but side to side play.
ideally you try to match brands but thats not a guarantee.

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>>64329626
another difference is magwells like how much bevel is on them all brands do them differently

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>>64329626
how they cut this radius will change depending on brand. sometimes they line up sometimes you get overhang. if you are using something that covers that area like magpuls grip then it doesnt even matter.

even though all lowers will function they are far from identical.

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>>64329766
heres an example of it lining up better

>>64329766
Alright, thank you

Just chopped a cheap 12g shotgun barrel down for the shits n gigs, how important is recrowning the barrel? I know it's pretty important on rifles, but not totally sure with beater shotguns. I'm obviously not going to be trying to take game with a shitter like this or anything, but I also don't want it to cause crazy shot dispersal or something or problems with slugs.

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>>64290531
Do trans make good support troops?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLF7Jv4k-Q

>>64329626
Mostly completely the same except a different rollmark, markings, and finish color (this can drive you nuts especially trying to find matching greys both color and sheen between brands, though often even military M16s and Colt sporters had mismatched grey uppers/lowers). Some lowers can fit tight with the upper. Some companies do sell "matched" uppers and lowers that are a little tighter fitting to each other. The biggest thing I'd really be on the lookout for other than lowers completely out of spec in some areas, which every company seems to accidentally let out from time to time (just watch SOTAR) is how well the magwell is cut. Some lowers are excessively or even just barely too tight. I don't know if I've heard of magwells being too loose but some lowers just hate certain mags. Sucks when it eats USGI and drops free but, say, Pmags are tight and you planned on using those for your rifle or something. Luckily my lowers accept any mag I've thrown at them minus one mag that was far out of spec even compared to the other examples I owned. That even includes an H&R (PSA) lower. Mags should drop freely when you press the mag release even when empty. IIRC some lowers also don't like seating a full magazine when the bolt is closed due to the mag release catch to bolt distance. Sometimes also mag dependent IIRC, like USGI vs PMAG.

I bought a box of ammo the other day. When the cashier, a small filipino man, saw that I was buying .380 he winked at me while licking his lips. What does this mean?

>>64329626
>>64330570
>which every company seems to accidentally let out from time to time (just watch SOTAR) is how well the magwell is cut.
wow I fucked that. More like:
>which every company seems to accidentally let out from time to time (just watch SOTAR). One I'd watch for is how well the magwell is cut.

>>64330442
Well, did you recrown at all? Or remove the burr? Or polish the face? Probably not as big of an issue with shotguns but the crown is the last thing that the shot cup touches, remember. It being relatively straight and burr-free is the least you can do.

>>64301478
THEN FUCKING GOOGLE IT YOU RETARD.

The fact that you default to using AI instead of doing any kind of research on your own is why everyone hates you. This is something you can figure out extremely easily if you used a brief keyword search and then extrapolated from the information given.

>>64290531
Just bought a PTR91 that came with a surplus HK aluminum mag. The mag well feels really tight and the magazine catch is slightly gouging the mag. Is that normal for the G3 type rifles?

The charging handle and trigger are stiff, as they're supposed to be, but I'm not sure if the magazine well should also be quite so stiff.

>>64330509
>Sir! They have already taken 41% casualties!

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>>64300785
>>64300106
There are plenty of nice used 870P’s which allows you to skip the shitty REM years and the newer “tactical” models with the gay integrated extended mag tube or dimples.

can you detonate C4 if you fill an empty bullet casing with it and then hitting the live primer?

>>64333877
most likely not, a primer strike wouldn't be strong enough to match the power of the primary explosive that's used to detonate C4.

>>64330586
Since then I ran a flat needle file across the top of the muzzle to try and level it out and then a round needle file around the end of the bore to try and deburr it and make some sort of real slight crown. In either case they're not great but I imagine it isn't that huge of deal?

>>64326628
Neat, any more interesting stories/tidbits anon?

>>64331038
Xey prefer xir

>>64290531
I just fixed a squib load from a .380 pistol using a brass rod. My question is, how did people fix squib loads during the days of muzzleloading firearms?

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>>64335451
Bullet extractors. Looks like a huge paint in the ass.

>>64335513
I wonder how many people didn't know these existed and just decided to buy a new musket instead. Thanks for showing me.

>>64334967
Honestly only way to find out is to shoot it. If it wants to pattern to one side you (maybe?) know the crown is odd or the barrel isn't cut straight (top-down view). Worst comes to worst, you at least deburred it so it should come out okay. If something's off, you make a minor adjustment. Thinking about it, I've seen some rough looking rifle crowns still shoot rather well. Shotgun shouldn't be affected as noticeably either way as long as you're shooting shot, I'd think. Still want to make it as perfect as possible.

>>64335533
NTA but IIRC the corkscrew looking things are called a "worm".

>>64301478
>I just want to write accurately
So you use AIslop?
God just fucking kill us already.

>>64308876
It’s good to have a lot number if you ever have a catastrophic malfunction caused by the ammo.

>>64311874
>Pretending to be nice
>pretending to be not nice
Respectively. Both retarded tho

>>64296855
Yeah as others have said it's picky with ammo and it gets dirty quick. It likes hotter stuff, I generally run mini mags. The sights suck and you are better off just aiming by a quick line up and more "feeling it". It's fatter than you might think, but it does fit well and looks great. Mags are a bit pricey, that might have changed after the new production runs. It's also tempting to try and fit more rounds in a mag but it won't feed if you do. You can find a laser grip but I don't think they make them anymore and they go for a premium.

>>64308876
If it's all the same ammo and cheap FMJ, dump it out. If it's a mix of stuff or match grade ammo that I want to stay that way, keep it in the boxes. If I take the ammo out of its boxes, I usually throw a flattened box on top so I know exactly what it is.

Different anonhere, but I have two MAK90s and they both have the most awful thumb hole stocks on them that I'd like to replace. I can find us made ak stocks for them at like 200+ bucks each, is there a cheaper alternative?

>>64330687
>THEN FUCKING GOOGLE IT YOU RETARD.
>The fact that you default to using AI instead of doing any kind of research
NTA, I don't know what kind of rock you've been living under, but search engines have been unreliable for years now (because they are "enhanced" by AI).

>>64301045
A full-powered cartridge (like .308 or stronger) chambered with tungsten core rounds (the good stuff they don't sell to civilians) should penetrate level IV armor. I don't think anyone makes .500 magnum tungsten core, as it's mostly a novelty hunting round.

>>64335766
Interesting. The people who visit these sites for art and/or coding tend to have the opposite experience as what you described.

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>>64335817
You can always get a shitty ATI =)
>anon you just stole that pic from WGWS in AKG
Yes I don't feel like fishing mine out of a box of stocks. Also, your stock(s) could always instead be the exceedingly shit NDM-89 stock. That thing was RETARDED. Pistol grip in the thumbhole was fatter than it was front to back for no fucking reason.

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>>64335817
Fuck, I mean the NHM90. Oh god that pistol grip is ass.

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>>64335817
But frankly I'd just "leave well enough alone" and keep it as-is. Surplus furniture may work but from experience, the NHM90 stock just doesn't line up on Romanian AKs like WASRs by quite a lot. You'll need to fit and because of refitting you'll definitely need to retouch the finish. Hopefully it's shellac, because at least that is alcohol soluble and easily retouched. IIRC Chinese AKs are kinda retarded and somewhat reverse engineered so they're not exactly AK spec but I may be misremembering.

Also FWIW the white spacer MAK90s look good to me. I don't know, just something about it. On one hand, it's absolutely silly and unbalanced between the big stock and the slim front end. On the other hand, that finish, the wood, and the white spacer style looks real nice in a weird way.

>>64335845
NTA, yes search engines are becoming enshittified, but your Google-fu is terrible if this is holding you back. Never ask google for a direct answer, it's terrible at that. Instead, use it to identify sources where you can then learn from. In other words treat it like what it is, a search engine, and not some magic answerbot.

Price check on a Surefire A173234 with remote switch and lens cover?

I'm a new gun owner, have one gun a glock 17 and shoot it as often as I can. I think it's time to branch out to other fire arms. Should I go for another handgun, a rifle (ak or ar) or maybe a shotgun? Nothing really stands out to me other than I would like another gun to shoot.

>>64338114
Assuming you live in a country where self-defense is legal. Your first gun should always be your carry gun and your second gun should always be your home defense gun or main fighting gun. Once you have those two squared away, buy whatever makes you happy.

>>64335678
Yeah I guess I'll see about it when shooting. Nearby range only allows slugs but as long as the thing doesn't inexplicably explode I won't be too mad.

Can I create a precision rifle out of a shotgun with slugs?

>>64338371
You could install a rifled slug barrel & and optic, and that will shoot slugs more accurately than a typical smoothbore with a bead or red dot, but:
a) it's still not anywhere close to as accurate as a rifle
b) slugs have terrible ballistic coefficients which means that their rainbow trajectory is going to limit your range long before mechanical precision will. Go look at the ballistics chart for a slug and this ought to be obvious.

>>64335113
International incidents are a couple orders of magnitude more common that any civvie will ever be aware. The vast majority of them are bored trolls fucking with each other
Funniest one was a Chinese intel trawler shadowing us and trying to pick up our garbage when the Norks were doing their "We got NOOOK-- uh, is that a Nimitz? We didn't, I swear" shit.
>Intel has been feeding them bad info for weeks for giggles
>Have D&D group with one of the Intel guys
>Two Intel guys show up giggling like schoolgirls
>Anon we can't say why but we need the filthiest goddamn skivvies you can find
>we want skidmarks, stank, fake blood, we want t-shirts so retarded yellow Mao would put them in charge of a province
>Me and several buddies doctor the fuck out of underpants
>Intel guys collect ziplocks of reeking, shitty, sweat-soaked undies with obvious glee
>They put them in inadequately weighted trash bags, add a torn biohazard sack in it, and mix in two bags of shredded documents about a cholera outbreak on board
Chinks fucked off back to port harder than I've ever seen anyone fuck off. Besides a Russian SIGINT ship that [redacted] during a live-fire exercise.

>>64338602
Genuinely what did they hope to find in your garbage? Did they think you were a research ship that just threw away failed prototypes or something?

>>64339143
Ship's trash is like poop, you can learn a lot from it. They're hoping there will be a scrap of actionable intel or anything else useful - supply manifests, broken consumable parts, trashed drafts of letters or memos, even the menus from the galley could reveal information about what's going on in the ship, morale, supply and readiness status, all that stuff. Especially on a ship that big. There's a reason the guys on trash duty (who are usually irredeemable fuckups or doing hard labor in the brig) have to hand-sort the bags. SOP is to incinerate *anything* made out of paper or cloth, melt and compact plastic into amorphous 100-pound pucks that get offloaded in friendly ports, and save all consumables and parts "Beyond Capability of Maintenance" for shipping back to the States to be recycled or landfilled there. All the rest of the trash gets weighted and sunk so it's hard to trawl up, and can't be offloaded at all in water under a certain depth.

I'm in the mood for a /k/ vidya, but specifically I'd like some kind of RTS/turn based tactics/whatever game that has an emphasis on actually using combined arms/transport vehicles/etc. Closest things I have installed right now is the Menace demo, but not only is it a demo but you get exactly one AFV and it's barely faster than walking. Any suggestions?

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>>64339594
Any of the more recent mods for Total Annihilation, or games based on it. My favorite is TA: Escalation, which has older style graphics but much more unit depth. A newer version with better graphics though fewer units is BAR (Beyond All Reason). Unlike a lot of RTSes where you just get to a certain tech level and spam one killer unit these really require you to manage combined arms. Stuff like radar installations, stealth units, AA escorts, jamming, sonar on water maps, etc, matter a great deal. You aren't forced to use transports but it is stupid not to, the games have various types of transport aircraft as well as ships and hovercraft.

>>64324731
buy cheap woobie and use it as a distraction with some catnip on it too.

>>64339594
The Combat Mission games.

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I may need to slaughter a horse in the near future.

Will a point-blank shot to the brain with pic-rel be enough to instantly and ethically kill the animal, or do I need to step it up to a more powerful firearm?
The only other weapons I have available to me are a .22LR (obviously too weak), and intermediate and full power rifles which are surely powerful enough, but which introduce the risk of dangerous over-penetration and ricochets, especially if the horse cannot be moved and has to be shot inside the stable.

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>>64341100
>Will a point-blank shot to the brain with pic-rel be enough to instantly and ethically kill the animal
Easily. Make sure you know where to shoot though, this is the part that most people fuck up. Look up horse anatomy. A lot of power is not required. Shooting the correct place is.

> but which introduce the risk of dangerous over-penetration and ricochets
I think you're over-worried here. There is no risk of over-penetration unless you're shooting an elephant gun, and "ricochets" are a concern when shooting hard objects, not meat.

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>>64341801
>Easily. Make sure you know where to shoot though, this is the part that most people fuck up. Look up horse anatomy. A lot of power is not required. Shooting the correct place is.
Thanks, I looked further into it.
Took some digging through the bureaucratic mazes that are the government's online archives, but it turns out the ministry of agriculture in my country actually published guidelines and recommendations for this kind of stuff.
According to these guidelines, .22LR is the minimum acceptable round when used for brain-shots at zero distance, with the entry point as shown in the picture and the imaginary "exit" wound being where the spine connects with the cranium.
But the government bureaucrats consider this to be a mere "stunning method" with the actual slaughter consisting of severing all the main arteries and veins at the heart with a blade, causing certain death by exsanguination.

Well, at least now I'm confident I can do this without fucking up and causing needless suffering.

What do you think about cyberwarfare? Can hackers really influence warfare?

>>64341100
This is actually relevant to my own dumb question.
>Live somewhere that people hit deer daily on the highway
>It's inevitable I will hit one too
>Only gun I own is a 12 gauge
Let's say I hit a deer and need to finish it off humanely.
How dangerous would it be to point-blank shoot it in the head with a 12 gauge, aiming straight into the ground? If it's on the side of the road I would not want to shoot it from afar, since I've seen buckshot pellets skip off the ground when firing downwards and I will have no way of knowing what's behind my target at some random spot on the road but I've never fired a shotgun point blank straight into the ground.
Should I just not even shoot it, but bring a sharp knife and cut it's throat? Or a sharp axe and chop it's neck vertebrae? I already know how to butcher a deer, so I know where to cut. I'd just be worried about it struggling when it feels a knife since obviously I'll have no idea how dead a deer hit by a car is going to be until I make sure it's fully dead.

>>64343255
>aiming straight into the ground?
Not dangerous.

>bring a sharp knife and cut it's throat
absolutely retarded to get that close to an injured wild animal

>>64343264
>aiming straight into the ground?
Not dangerous.
Good to know, thanks.
>bring a sharp knife and cut it's throat
absolutely retarded to get that close to an injured wild animal
Yeah, that's the reason for using a gun. At least with a gun you don't need to make physical contact before firing, so it's less likely to freak out. I'd still rather not walk up to one, but I would absolutely not want to shoot one anywhere that even a single pellet could go careening off and hit someone's house.
I suppose this gives me a good excuse to save up and buy a handgun :)

Do you prefer a prism scope with an offset red dot, or a red dot with a magnifier?

best cheap gel pads for howard leight impact sports?

>>64343620
Depends on the primary use of the rifle. If it is for mostly intermediate/longer range, prism with added red dot. If it is primarily intended for close range, red dot with magnifier.
Both setups are compromises to get the extra capability so lean into whichever setup prioritizes the basic capability you use most.

>>64343620
Prism optics suck ass.
Run a red dot with a magnifier, or run a proper magnified scope with an offset micro red dot.

>>64343635
What do you dislike about prisms?

>>64343635
Magnifiers are just worse prisms

>>64343657
Every single one I've ever used have had an absolutely tiny eye box that made them awkward to use and slow to get crosshairs on target.
Maybe my eyes are a bit weird (doubt it since I've always scored near perfect in vision tests) but I really dislike prism optics, can't describe exactly why further than what I already have.

>>64343255
>Let's say I hit a deer and need to finish it off humanely.
Why? If you hit a squirrel do you go back to make sure it's all the way dead?

>>64343657
Bad vibes.

My birthday is this month. Should I buy an AUG or a red right hand upper? Both are a similar-ish price. AUGs maybe $200 more. Thinking a standard A3M2 if any AUGtists here have any reviews and such

>>64343834
No, but I don't plan to put a squirrel into the back of my truck so I can bring it home and butcher it.

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Anyone able to identify what gear they are carrying from this image? Sorry don't have a better pic.

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>>64348648
Better image. Are they really using NVG in daylight?

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Any idea what that red thing round the neck of the sixth Rainbow Six larper from right is?

>>64348684
chainsaw looks like one of the Stihl rescue models. It's nearly impossible to tell exactly which one since they look the same from that angle/distance, but it looks like a MS 460-R, 461-R or 462-R. That's pretty standard for fire/rescue.

>>64348723
>chainsaw looks like one of the Stihl rescue models
Ended up searching and found an image that confirmed that was indeed the case. Well spotted anon. I probably should wait till can find more detailed images of the other gear but think might be right on that front as well.

Anybody have the infographic about making stencils?

If you cut the stock off of a rifle with a >16" barrel and a (new) OAL of >26", do you run the risk of stepping into NFA territory?

>>64349517
yes

>>64349589
How do you (safely) do this?

>>64349961
Get a tape measure

Is there any circumstance that could cause a gun's loading port to be counted as a stock (for legal reasons)?

>>64350101
What the hell does this even mean

>>64350979
Suppose (for whatever reason) you used a gun's loading port as your third point of contact. Would this cause it to be treated as a stock?

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>>64350983
I dont speak ATF, but I think stocks are only considered stocks if they're mounted on the rear of the gun. If for whatever reason you only have a naked buffer tube and hold the gun by the magwell which is totally normal, you're safe

What are the best exercises in order to shoot more effectively? I'm tired of being fat and have started general weight lifting and cardio, but what should I focus on the most? Any resources on this?

>>64351133
No, I mean like a breechloader.

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PSA
do not fire blank cartiges in your full powered pistol
Casing gets jammed and will require brute force to remove (pull the slide and bust the frame on a table) to eject.

real dumb nigga hours

pic unrel, just neat

who makes an aftermarket ump/sl8/G36 trigger?

>>64351149
Shooting well does not require strength. In fact, it's the opposite: good technique matters more than strength. Here is a great example, watch these fools shoot a super hard recoiling revolver. The young guys are obviously much stronger than the old man with noodle arms, and you can see them really bearing down on the grip too, but that doesn't matter and they still can't shoot it for shit and it nearly gets away from them on multiple occasions. The old man is a wimp by comparison but his form is much better so he has no problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XEsamEcJn0

>focus on the most
weights & cardio are a great choice. Upper body strength is probably best to focus on since it affects how you would hold a long gun but most weight programs are going to focus on that anyway.

Is there any company thats actually pro 2A? Just today heard about the Colt/CZ bullshit up in Canada

>>64348684
>Are they really using NVG in daylight?
It can be blazing sunshine outside but pitch black inside a building.

What can I load into a 12 gauge that will actually go through Level IIIA or Level IV plates? The closest I've found is brass slugs or rifled slugs.

>>64352784
Hopes and dreams. Shotguns have terrible armor penetration capability. Even basic bitch kevlar stops a slug. If you want to pen armor you want something small and fast moving, the exact opposite of a slow, fat, slug.

>>64352784
>What can I load into a 12 gauge that will actually go through Level IIIA or Level IV plates?
One of those caliber-changing full length barrel inserts chambered for .30-06 with a round of M2 AP-ball ammo in the chamber.

Any anons that own older gen Glocks? Any issues I should be warned of? Was thinking about picking up a 'very good' condition police trade in Glock 19 Gen 2 for $375 don't need it really just think the old Glocks look cool and wanted to just keep in my gun safe and shoot occasionally.

>>64353449
Not something to keep you from buying it, but if you get one make sure to take apart the striker assembly and clean everything. A lot of people including cops never take that apart and you can get a shitload of gunk and brass in there over time

>>64353449
No unique issues besides needing to make sure your spare parts are compatible. I got a Gen 2 like you because they look nice and Gen 2 triggers feel nice when broken in.

>>64353449
Some of the early ones have fragile plastic sights.
That's pretty much the only real complaint I know about.

>>64353583
>>64353666
Thank you for the info/tips, espc you, Satananon, nice trips. Also I heard the Gen2 can't take the Gen 5 mags so I will have to stock up on some older mags but will do a little more reading but i'm thinking i'm going to grab one.

>>64353671
Good all, thanks. If the sights suck I might just buy the oem plastic ones i'm trying to keep it as stock as possible.

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What goggles are these guys wearing? The only info I could find is the picture waa taken in 1982 by Jose Nicolas.

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>>64354089
1980s had an insane amount of experimental 1st and 2nd gen night vision, a lot of the actual makes and models aren't publicly documented. The French in particular used more than a dozen different models but it's near impossible to find info on them outside of the odd picture.

I would also love to know what these guys are wearing.

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>>64354089
>>64354102
gonna do a small dump for the sake of posterity

>>64354089
>>64354102
>>64354105
>>64354107
kino

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giga kino

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>ywn hunt Mossad operatives through the sewers of Munich following the olympic terror attack false flag op

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>>64354089
Here's a higher res version

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There's a truly insane amount of NVG tech out there, most of which never got past very beta stage models. The current meta is obviously quads/panos with thermal ability and augmented reality overlays. God knows how many commies met their maker by guys wearing stuff like picrel tho.

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If your rifle has sufficient barrel and overall length to be a rifle at all points, does cutting the stock down to a grip cause it to lose its classification as a "rifle"? It's no longer "intended" to be fired from the shoulder.

>>64354983
It's still intended to be fired from the shoulder, that caliber and action were never intended to be fired single-handedly.

>>64354988
That was just an example. Pretend it's a semi-auto. Does removing the portion that actually connects to the shoulder affect the legal classification of the weapon?

>>64355003
no. otherwise removing the stock on an AR15 would be a crime.

>>64355013
Thank you.

>>64353449
IIRC some of the reeeeeallly early mags are getting to a point that they're a little fragile but that can easily be fixed by simply buying, like, a fuckton of surp gen 3 mags or some shit.

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>>64354983
>>64355003
No and all you have to do is look at shotguns to see that's legal. Most pump shotguns have a pistol grip model or a model that comes with both a stock AND a pistol grip you can swap out as you want. Keep the OAL over 26" and barrel length over 16" (or 18" for a shotgun) and all is good. Really no reason to cut it though, just about impossible to use the sights then.

Also on a similar note, rifles (or shotguns) with folding or collapsing stocks have their OAL measured with the stock unfolded or fully extended as being a rifle/shotgun it's "designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder". Fucking took far too much research to confirm such a thing because that shit gets hidden in maybe one teeny tiny little part of 922 and fucking ATF opinion letters they don't even do anymore. Seeing Century, etc. manufacture guns with a folded OAL of under 26" confirms that to be a fact.

Haven't been researching suppressors lately, what is a good 5.56 suppressor with low back pressure and flowthrough design?

Are squirrel varmints? Urban if that matters

>>64357845
not with that attitude

>>64356587
I like my Velos. What's your budget though?

best optic options for a SCAR 17? All I have is a spare Aimpoint PRO, but feels weird using a red dot on a .308

Piggybacking off the suppressor question, is the YHM R9 a good choice for a cheapo starter can? would mostly be using it with a 16in 5.56 w/tunable gas and a Stribog SP9

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Dear /k/.
I just bought a S&W Engraved Model 29 4 inch and when I cock the hammer and pull the trigger slowly it moves about a mm or 2 forward and stops as if I was staging the trigger in double action; I can even pull the trigger more and it'll move back and then snap forward as if I was firing it on double action as normal.
This gun is new from the fucking factory and I've not even shot it yet beyond testing the trigger with snap caps this thing is fresh out of the box. Should I just send it back to S&W or should I try and tinker with it? Should I shoot it and see if it fixes itself? Wat do?

>>64359616
Sounds like a half-cock safety, to keep the hammer from falling all the way if the trigger only moves a little bit.

Why are there no ads on nutnfancy's main channel?
They don't do it to the b channel. I've gotten ads on demonetized videos before. How is it the only channel I see that has no ads?

>>64313003
>If it's to shoot doesn't matter both are ehh. Like they work they work flawlessly but they they don't feel good to shoot. It's just underwhelming disappointment. For what you pay you think it should be really nice but they aren't.

this. i had the compact and the trigger felt like it was attached to a rubber band. sold it and bought a glock 19 and wasn't disappointed.

>>64360065
Who the fuck knows. YouTube ad logic is retarded. Run an ad blocker and forget about it.
>>64359616
Sounds like an internal safety. If it's a throwback model it should have a rebounding hammer safety.
>>64359559
If you aren't shooting it very far it is fine. Usually I recommend a fixed power prism optic since they are just simpler with less to break on them. 7.62 SCARs are known to chew up optics due to their relatively light weight.
>>64353449
Nah it'll be good to go. Gen 2s were solid. Only problem was an unsupported chamber in the .40s but that's an uncommon problem and a complete non-issue for a 9mm. Most internal components are forwards compatible to 3rd gen which are still readily available, so if something is worn out it is easy to replace.
>>64352784
Rifles slugs won't go through either, but they would fuck someone up wearing just kevlar. Shotguns generally just don't have enough velocity for effective AP.

I'd actually go the other direction entirely. Body armor doesn't cover everything. If you run buckshot at a range where it can spread a little you are maximizing the possibility of hitting a spot that isn't covered.

>>64352213
Double-check the sauces on that. I heard about it today and so far it's just some unconfirmed claims on X/Reddit that got picked up by Google AI.

Of course Colt Canada has government contracts for the Diemaco C7/C8 rifles and some other equipment so it wouldn't be too surprising if the government made them do this as part of some deal or another. It sounds like something along these lines could be true, but there's nothing concrete yet. It's just too early to jump on them for this.
It is also a very different situation if they are paying Colt to do this vs. forcing them as a condition of maintaining their license to operate.

I need a bump helmet. my head is a size 8 1/8 hat 65.6cm around.

what are my options?

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In the spot where the wood connects with the end of the barrel, there's a piece of metal securing the wood to the barrel's end.
Would this be classified as a type of barrel band? If so, is there a more specific name for it?

>>64361173
"nose cap"

>>64361192
Thank you.

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What roll mark is this? Who manufactured this rifle? Too lazy to take the stock off to see the whole thing. Also its a mauser action that's been fucked with for sure the saftey is like a thumb lever not a flag. But its certainly a mauser of some sorts.

>>64361960
>What roll mark is this?
I see marks but none of them are "roll" marks.

>Too lazy to take the stock off to see the whole thing
Nobody is going to be able to identify it without seeing the whole thing. The mark at the far left is the "broad arrow" which indicates British property. The mark after that looks like a British proofmark, however most of it is obscured by the stock. The important thing is to see the letter in front of the "R". The "R" means either "Rex" or "Regina", referring to either the King or Queen of England. The letter we can't see is the important one, as it would be the first initial of the monarch. I.e. if it was "GR" that would mean "George Rex" =King George.

12.5" mid length AR + Polonium K direct thread + handguard covering the whole thing = Cool or stupid?

Looking into mag loaders, what aren't dog water? Was looking at the Caldwell one but saw some pretty bad reviews on it. I'm now considering The ETS ones, both their rifle and pistol

>>64362210
I like my MagLula for pistol mags. I don't use any for rifles.

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My buddy got this scope for free, which he in turn gave to me for free since he doesn't have a longgun. I did some googling and it turns out it's a knock-off of a real Leupold.

How usable is it in spite of it being a fake? I was thinking of putting it on my 10/22.

>>64364964
>How usable is it in spite of it being a fake?
I don't understand why you are asking us when you are the one able to examine the scope. You should be the one telling us how good that scope is since you're the one who can handle it.

Anyway, it looks nothing like a real Mk4 so it's clearly a low-end fake, about like buying a sword from a Bazaar in India that has "Excalibur" etched on the blade. It will probably hold zero okay but I doubt it would pass a box test so it's probably best to just keep it zeroed and not fuck with the turrets. You'd know better than we would since you can actually test this. I'd also expect the usual Chinesium funky color distortion around the edges of the field of view.

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Anyone have any experience with Mini-14s? How are they on Practical and Fun standpoints? What are the pros and cons vs an AR?
I was considering getting one for an "intermediate-to-short range" firearm, and while I'm not averse to ARs, for my personal use I like the aesthetic, am less likely to dabble in the tacticool lego shit AR guys do, and I have a notion that it'd come across less like a threeper with one than an AR to friend and family.
>inb4 hipster
I'm aware and don't care (like an actual hipster, unfortunately)

>>64367480
Pros: Looks kind of cool.
Cons: More expensive, less reliable, doesn't use STANAG mags, worse parts availability, less aftermarket support, less amenable to DIY repairs or upgrades.

There's nothing wrong with a mini-14, but with the market the way it is, it's very hard to beat the AR on objective metrics.

FWIW I wasn't an AR fan until I finally broke down and got one about 10 years ago. I still like other semi-autos for mainly aesthetic reasons, but if I had to pick one to actually use, it would be an AR 100% of the time.

>>64367480
I've owned several.

Right out the gate they are exorbitantly overpriced. It's basically a tax for getting something that shoots 5.56 but isn't an AR.
If buying new, budget for factory 20rd magazines and a Tech Sights rear sight.
>What about used?
Make sure it has a serial number prefix of 580 or more and haggle like a jew. Pre 580s (180-189) had pencil thin barrels with horrible accuracy problems due to heat and harmonics which was not fixed until a big redesign around 2008.
>What about magazines.
Factory magazines are expensive, but work. Aftermarket magazines can sort of work but stick to 20s. National are the most common and absolutely worthless. Promag 20s are apparently ok. John Masen was pretty good too, but anything other than factory is a crapshoot.

Also it is a rock in pattern but the catch is a circle rather than a ledge so you'll need a lot of practice to line up those magazines without looking.
>What about accuracy?
At best, expect $400 budget AR performance.
>What about scopes?
They have scope mounts milled in the receiver for proprietary Ruger pattern rings. Use those.
>What about 6.8spc, 300blk or 7.62x39?
Don't
>What about the folding stocks?
Samson folders are neat but really only for aesthetics. Otherwise don't. Most don't even have any handguard heat shielding which you'll notice right away.
>Reliability?
With good magazines they eat whatever ammo you want, even steel cased.
>Controls?
Think AK but with a last round bolt hold open. Run it just like that. Also keep your hand away from the gas block at the end of the handguard because it will remove your finger prints.
>>64362112
If it's stupid but it works it isn't stupid. Better question is if YOU think it's cool because you are the one building/buying it.

Do online retailers generally have sales? I dont mean the PSA type "sale" where they call it a sale but the prices are the same as last week. Trying to wait for a good time to buy some plates and a carrier

>>64367480
As far as I understand it the accuracy issue has not been fixed as I’ve seen testing of brand new 2024 Mini-14s still having random fliers

Just buy an ar and stick some irons on it

>>64368816
not really at most you save 20 bucks on a 300-400 purchase cause of free shipping

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Anyone have experiece with 3d printed sights? Want a set like these that'll fit the Springfield Hi Powers jank ass slide cut and all the custom guys I've contacted have turned me down. Alternatively, if anyone knows a custom shop that might do it that works too.

Has the ATF ever actually arrested gangbanging nigs that put Amazon $15 3D printed switches and "car muffler" suppressors on their glawks or is it literally only ever called in on white guys who want a range toy?

>>64372377
The ATF is a bunch of larping desk jockeys, they don't fuck with people who actually shoot back when they magdump their chihuahua in a no knock raid.

>>64372511
I just wanted to check if there was a single incidence of it, because my libtard boomer Dad is waxing poetic about the ATF again and instead of responding I just sent him a bunch of videos and articles about nigs using NFA items.

>>64372517
I mean I'd expect there's at least a few of them, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Even every police officer/detective I've known, (and that's a higher than average number), has had nothing good to say about ATF donut eaters explicitly because they spend their time fucking with people and posturing as secret agent/SWAT larpers trying to look cool instead of actually doing anything about hardened criminals. It seems to be where shitty federal agents get shuffled to keep them away from actually important duties.
But that's just purely on hearsay from people I've known who actually do have to deal with them, I personally have never spoken to an ATF agent and see no reason to change that.

>>64372538
Well I don't expect to convince him because he'll just go into "it's all those red staters selling them firearms" which he settles on as his explanation despite the fact that not only is it not that, it's probably litterally the ATF supplying these things to nigs as they're the ones that put those "definitely not a 3D printed Glawk Switch" entrapment schemes on Amazon.

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would a carbon felt welding blanket wrapped in condura work as a good DIY suppressor cover?

>>64372377
I actually can't recall ever seeing an instance of this. On the state level, yes gang members catch state gun charges, but I can't recall a federal prosecution for Glock switch possession.