I met my first plastic AR this week! ok, polymer, whatever! …No, It wasn’t Solo cup plastic, but it was so very plastic! It wasn’t one of those wikiguns, to my amazement, it was actually a Bushmaster. My first reaction…
When I told my friend, back in December, that I was ordering my AR receivers, he laughed and said, “Good luck finding a lower parts kit!” Another friend, who had started his first build six months earlier said, “Ha! You…
On Monday we learned that AR-15 was not automatically accepted by the US army when it was invented. The rifle was too new in concept for the conservative military decision makers of the 1950s but in 1960, everything changed. As…
In order to do a better job on my own AR-15 build, I figured it might be handy to learn the history of this coveted weapon system. Having studied architecture in college, I realize that some times form can be…
Last Thursday I was glued to my TV for an hour while CNBC Prime showed “The Rise of the AR-15“. The only thing pulling my attention from this show, was the twitter feed discussion going on simultaneously. Even producer, Brian…
As I mentioned on Monday, I have begun collecting parts for my AR build. The lower parts kit has arrived and the lower receiver is on the way, but every other decision has been a hotly debated point. A “slick…
This is one of my favorite AR builds of all time.
A day or two after the Connecticut shooting, when I was still working at the gun range, the conversations swirled about how such an event would affect the gun-loving community. We had already seen sales of firearms increasing, but it…
The post on “buying the right gear once” has raised quite a few questions about how we break ARs down into quality tiers, with several people pointing out manufacturers like Noveske and JP; rifles whose quality definitely exceeds the Colt.…
A young man stopped by the office yesterday to chat about guns, which is what people do when your office is in a gun shop. It’s fortunate that I really, really like chatting about guns with people who know their…
