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  • Airsoft To AR-15 Conversion – Fox News And ATF Beating A Dead Horse

    A FoxNews.com investigation reveals that a popular recreational pellet gun can be converted easily to a real semi-automatic weapon. And while the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is already aware of the issue, these “toys” — new, top-of-the-line airsoft rifles — continue to be sold throughout the country. Full Story – HERE…

  • Weapons Painting Guide For Soldiers

    On 1 April, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command issued the Maintenance Information Message MI 10-040 “Camouflaging Specific Small Arms” stating that, given command approval, Soldiers are permitted to camouflage the M4/M16 weapon systems with paint. See the guide in PDF format – HERE As the guide says at the end, weapons painting has been elevated…

  • M4 Barrel Profiles and Forward Assists

    40mm grenade launchers are NOT easy to get, they are classified as destructive devices and require an ATF Form 1.  Unless you talk to ABC news, you’ll find out that not too many people have them. So why do so many companies make barrels with M4 profiles, if very few of us have M203 grenade…

  • AKAR-15 Rifle

    Yesterday I talked about the painful combination of an AR-15 and an AK in the movie Echelon Conspiracy. Today, SayUncle pointed out that this is not the first time such a thing has happened.  Behold this store advertisement: Pretty funny back story on the picture.   One of SayUncle’s readers who goes by the name of…

  • AKAR-15 Is A Painful Combination To Behold

    Check out this rifle from the movie Echelon Conspiracy: Oh where to begin…. Should we start with the fact that it is an AK / AR-15 hybrid (We’ll call it the AKAR-15) … which has an AK bolt carrier and charging handle, but yet has an AR-15 style forward assist inside an AR-15 style A2…

  • 80% AR-15 Lower Receiver V.S. Airsoft Lower Receiver – Is there a legal difference?

    I was thinking some more about that recent ATF airsoft seizure and came up with the following… For your information, per provisions of the Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, an unlicensed individual may make a “firearm” as defined in the GCA for his own personal use, but not for sale…