re: Official AR-15 thread

Thanks for the Sticky.

Has anyone located a place that has ANY complete AR's in stock from ANY maker?

I'll probably just go with another Mini-14 since they don't have the stigma attatched yet and are still available..

But in case anyone knows of a source please help a few brothers out

Over the years, I've sent that all over the Internets. Excellent thread.

Props to the OP for starting this one, as well.

I just finished building one for my old boss. Have $800 in the rifle. PSA M4 upper with chrome lined barrel & PSA lower. Magpul MBUS rear sight, magpul MOE rear stock.

I still have one stripped lower that i am going to hang onto. Good thing is that by owning the lower you will be able to put on a pre-ban upper and be fine as long as this coming ban will be like the 94 clinton ban.

That pretty much sums it up. Take away the threaded barrel and bayonet lug and the same gun was perfectly legal. I bought a COLT MT6700 competition HBAR in 1999 and it has no baynet lug or threaded barrel. I also bought a bulgarian AK in 1998 and it has a pinned on muzzle break and thumbhole stock instead of pistol grip but is functionally the same rifle capable of doing the same jobs. Also to get around the ban Intratec took the DC TEC-9 and took off the threaded barrel. Voila legal Only thing it did do was create a huge over inflated market for banned items manufactured before 1994. I remember paying $30 for AR-15 30 rnd mags in the late 90's.

Forgot about the bayonet lug. Personally I can do without this, although my Bushy has one.

Do you think they will throw suppressors in the new AWB too?

I know they are already a NFA item but they might say what the hell, ban those too. Who needs that.

Just an FYI: I was at Nick's in Garyville this morning shooting and he had quite a few Pmags left. I got the last 3 black ones but he had several tan ones left (probably 10-15). Him and Cabelas were both out of .223 in anything more than a box of 20 (I'm waiting on FedEx to show up with my 1000 rounds now )

Have any of you ever had feed ramp problems from a brand new ar? I have pretty much narrowed it down to this issue, however I have never personally had any problems with this. My dad bought an m&p 15 today and it shoots and ejects fine when a round is force charged into the chamber, but has issues picking ammo off the magazine. It came with a pmag, and I have used several of mine on it along with different types of ammo. I have polished m4 ramps on mine and have never had this issue. Any suggestions aside from calling s&w and shipping the upper back to them. He is just getting into black rifles and is discouraged now to say the least, but rightfully so. I'd be pissed.Eta: I stripped it down, cleaned it well, focusing a lot of detail towards the chamber.