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  1. 48 minutes ago, ESB said:

    He's going to have to explain the 4 extra shots after the guy was down and the gun flew out of the perp's hands.  Plus the extra one at the end.  Up until then it looks very justified, the last one looks vigilante.  I think this is going to come down to how good his lawyer is and if the DA wants to make an example out of him.  

    The 4 extra is easy. "I was focused on the shooter and did not see the gun fly out of his reach. To the best of my perception he was still a potential threat with a weapon within reach. It was a very short period of time."

    The last one is the tricky one. 

     


  2. 26 minutes ago, 45Doll said:

    @raz-0 Thanks for that link.

    IMO the 'customer' is going to have a problem. I count at least five shots after the shooter is down and obviously out (IMO). Especially the last one, which I agree looks like a ND, and the previous three at close range apparently to the head.

    I don't totally disagree with you, but from a defensible standpoint, one could argue he didn't see the gun go flying and thought he was still a threat. But you can't argue the shot/nd as he had the fake gun in hand at that point. 

     


  3. 12 hours ago, 45Doll said:

    The description of the whole incident with sound (but not video) is that after the citizen shot the robber, as he was apparently leaving, in the back (once, twice, maybe even three times) after he hit the floor he continued to shoot him, for a total of nine shots.

    I think the citizen is going to have a problem. Even in Texas.

    The full video is out there. 

    He shoots him while he is down, which is fine as he was still holding the fake gun and was still potentially a hazard to life and limb. The problem is that when the defender picked up the fake gun, he shot the perp again. To me he looks kind of startled when that happens. I'm guessing he kept his finger on the trigger and jacked up on adrenalin and panic, when he was executing fine motor skills to pick up the perps fake gun, he squeezed the trigger and blammo. 

    At that point he could be fucked and likely knows it. Hence the rapid departure. 

    15 minutes ago, YankeeSC said:

    Good thing they pixelated the firearms in the video, it's just way too scary to see that.  :facepalm:

    There's a bunch of new youtube bullshit going on with monitization, so the youtubers are being very cautious. 


  4. 1) It's sold as a comp. 

    2) It's design would not do much to abate muzzle flash. 

    3) It probably doesn't actually function as a comp either based on the design. 

    It's basically an overly complicated thread protector. I wouldn't concern myself if I were to put it on an AR build. I wouldn't because of #3, but not because I'd be legally concerned. 

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  5. 9 minutes ago, Walkinguf61 said:

    I am pointing out that it’s not in the tradition of even NJ to require a gun permit to own . 
    Before this new law if one moved to NJ there was no requirement to register the guns or a permit needed to have them .NJ only had a FID to purchase. 

    Except that the FPID/PP exists in conjunction with the GCA of 68. This means that unless you get willed it, or had/have a residence in another state, you cannot own them without getting a permit. 

    NJ has always been run by statist scumbags. We'd still be a colony if NJ determined how the nation was run. 

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  6. On 12/1/2022 at 8:47 AM, Displaced Texan said:

    That spare castle nut in your parts kit seems to be able to magically turn into a complete rifle…

    My spare parts pile is dangerously close to critical mass. It has some good stuff in it. 

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  7. On 11/26/2022 at 3:53 PM, Cheflife15 said:

    I was reading somewhere that it's normal to hand a spare bolt carrier group in your kit incase it fails in your rifle.  I was looking at picking up a wilson combat BOLT CARRIER ASSEMBLY, AR-15/M16, 5.56 NATO, AUTO, LOW MASS, POLISHED NICKEL BORON. 

    After googling my understanding is these are all interchangeable between rifles.  I would be putting this in a 5.56/.223 daniel defense ddm4v7.  

    Also,  what is headspace? I'm reading changing out bolt carrier groups could weaken the bolt and cause the gun to fail completely.  

    Tldr: I'm lost in the sauce with all the conflicting information on the internet.  

    Spare bolts? Yah. WHole spare BCG... not so much. Although if you like building ARs, you eventually wind up with them. 

    No, Carriers and bolts are not universally interchangeable across all ar-15 pattern guns. 

    5.56 and 300 blackout guns use the same bolts.

    7.62x39 and 6.5 grendel use the same bolts. (bolt face is .445" diameter)

    6.8SPC uses something real close to the bolts (bolt face is .442" diameter)

    Then you have pistol caliber BCGs which don't have a bolt, and are very different from a standard mil spec 5.56 BCG. 

    Then you have annoying bullshit like wonderbolts and other things that start messing with the lugs and have to be headspaced different or need special extensions. Avoid them. 

    As for the BCG, all those bolts will fit in a standard carrier. But if your gun is a piston/op-=rod gun and not a normal direct impingement gun, the BC is non-standard. Additionally if your gun is set up with a roller camp in (this is a POF gun thing), you can't use a normal carrier with a normal cam pin. This stupidity looks like this. I mean it works, but it fixes a problem that doesn't exist and creates proprietary uppers that don't work with standard BCGs right. 

     

     

     

    POF-USA P-308 Roller Cam Pin assembly

    Headspace is the measurement telling you how the bolt fits to the chamber/barrel extension. Too much and too little means the gun will have issues, potentially catastrophic if it is too far out of spec. Hence go/nogo gauges. In spec bolts will generally mesh with in spec barrel extensions and everything will be fine. If you want to be certain it is fine, you get go/no-go gauges. You can also do a ghetto version of this by using an in spec round and a couple pieces of masking tape. As mr. google about that if you need to know.

    Typically what fails is the following in the BCG area. 

    1) Bolt cracks at the camp pin hole. This is the #1 failure mode over time... by a lot.

    2)  Bolt sheers a lug. This is what everyone worries about, and is much less common. It happens, but typically the gun will keep running, possibly less reliably, but keep running. It is an inevitable failure mode over time, but the reality is you usually never get here because of #1 unless there is a defect in your bolt. 

    3) Gas key comes loose

    This isn't a common long term failure mode. It is however something that can happen because the BCG wasn't built right or something was defective. This will usually happen fairly early on if it is going to happen. 

    4) Gas key cracks or is eroded. This is a longer term failure mode. It is the result of the gas key and the gas tube not being concentric, and is typically due to an assembly error on the upper, or a seriously out of spec key on a carrier. But the tube and the key rub when the BCG goes into battery, and if that wear is not symmetrical, you can chew one edge of the key or tube away and get a gas leak and the gun doesn't run reliably any more, or at all. Worst case is asymmetrical rubbing turns into impact rather than just rubbing, and this can damage the gas tube, or crack the gas key, or cause the gas key to loosen. Spares typically don't help here because the root cause is typically a misaligned gas tube, and the damage occurs to both the gas tube and key so a spare BCG is insufficient. 

     

    On 11/26/2022 at 4:57 PM, High Exposure said:

    I keep a spare bolt and some other small parts (gas rings, extractor springs, cam pin, firing pin, trigger and hammer pins, etc…) in an Altoids tin in my rifle bag. I have a second tin with a complete LPK in it in my teaching bag. A little insurance for a frustrating day.

    Don't go crazy with a premium, fancy coated Wilson BCG just to keep as a spare. Just get a standard Mil-Spec set up from a reputable shop.

    No need for boutique kit in this role (whether non-spec coatings on AR parts are a good idea is a whole other conversation).

    Spend the $$ you save in a GO/NO GO gauge and an armorers class.

    This is a solid list of spares. I'll just add that you can buy bolt rebuild or bolt spare parts kits that are basically all the BCG bits of this in a container. I will also add that a lot of fancy BCGs are doing something where the tradeoff is less reliability. 

    On 11/26/2022 at 5:18 PM, Displaced Texan said:

    Not really, other than it’s about 2 seconds quicker. 
     

    Honestly, just buy a complete bolt with gas rings, and keep it in your kit. 
     

    Coatings…..sigh, that’s a whole source of internet argument. 
    I personally don’t see a benefit to anything other than the standard, mil spec phosphate coating. It’s easy enough to clean (and I rarely clean my ARs). 
     

    I think the fancy, NiBoron and other such boutique coatings are snake oil, but some people will argue  that to the ends of the earth. 
     

    I would highly recommend an armors course, it’s more in-depth than a ‘build and AR’ class. 
    But the build class certainly wouldn’t hurt. 

    I agree with you and the keep a spare, fully populated bolt in your kit idea. I do that as well as keep a box of replacement parts. 

    Aww.. you should give your opinions on coatings. That's the kind of stuff we are here to argue about. 

    I will. 

    COATINGS ARE BAD. 

    SURFACE TREATMENTS ARE GOOD. 

    Coatings sit on top of the metal. Surface treatments basically become one with the metal due to chemicals transformation. 

    Also "nitrided" is an ambiguous term, and it has started to be abused in the retail sector. 

    Mil-spec phosphate is fine. It is a surface treatment. 

    IMO the only improvement on this is going to a polished, melonited carrier. This may also be called a nitro carburized, QPQ, or nitrided. Why is this potentially better? There are only really three ways to mess up a mil-spec carrier. 1) machine it out of spec, and this isn't really something you can tell from advertising, and is an issue of QC for a given brand. 2) Attachment of the gas key.  Which is once again a QC issue, but if the marketing pics don't look like they did a good job, they probably don't do a good job.  3) Do a poor job at applying the chrome coating in the inside of the carrier where bolt goes. It's part of the mil-spec requirements, but just by it's nature there's minimal room for error, and chrome is chrome and can fail in addition to the channel being machined out of spec, or the polishing step being done wrong and driving it out of spec dimensionally. For a melonited carrier, the coating can't fail. If machining and polishing were good, melonite won't alter the dimension or finish. And polished melonited carriers are easier to clean than phosphated. Also polished and melonited can't hide any sins in machining or surface prep. The matte phosphare can to a small extent. 

    Things like TiNi, Ion bond, NiBoron, etc are coatings. They can flake off, and potentially interfere in the smooth operation of the gun. This is primarily a concern of chrome and nickel boron as they are thicker coatings, and one the coating is compromised, the damage will likely spread. TiNi, ionbond, and many others are PVD coatings, much thinner, and damage is less likely to spread. They are probably ok, but why pay for them when the better choices are cheaper? 

    Unfortunately some PVD coatings are black and contain nitrogen and will be referred to as nitride. So do some digging. 

    Personally I've been very happy with BCM mil spec BCGs, JP, PRI, rubber city armory, and spikes melonited BCGs. 

    As for bolts, I just buy JP bolts and let my wallet complain. They are the only company that puts extra meat wound the cam pin hole without doing something else stupid. Their QC is excellent and they insist on pretty tight tolerances. Many of the good, more boutique barrel makers head space to their bolts because of this. And their warranty and CS was good 20 years ago and is still good today. That's from personal experience. I know a lot of people who use their stuff, and I've never run into anyone with anything bad to say about them. They are pricey, so I don't indulge in everything they make, but their bolts are worth it and I've just stopped dicking around with anything else.  

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  8. On 11/25/2022 at 8:26 PM, Xtors said:

    Good article and completely agree. The problem, though, is that the left is appealing based on emotion and this strategy, while better, is more logic/fact based. It's hard to compete with people screaming "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!" and "IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE" at the top of their reeeeeeeeeeeeeing lungs. That said, NICS data over the last couple years along with some recent mainstream polls showing much lower support for gun control does offer some hope.

    So make an emotional appeal. In the case of the wal-mart shooting, why did wal-mart once again fail to provide sufficient security to it's employees? Why did government policy continue to fail to address the root cause of XXX that lead to this violence. 

    The main problem with this is it would require the GOP to possibly endorse some form of funding a functioning social safety net. 


  9. 1 hour ago, samiam said:

    If that was intended to be a response to my criticism of the lack on communications from 2A advocacy organizations to their supporters, my reply is this: I am a fairly recently added member and contributor to both ANJRPC and CNJFO. If I received an email blast it was either some time ago, or lacked specific information. As the post mentioned, I go to the web sites of both organizations at least twice a week, and I see no announcements about what is going on. Suppose a non-member who was interested in supporting this battle went to those web pages looking for information? What do you think that person would find to induce him to join and support the effort? I haven't been hanging on this forum for years, like some, and my perspecitve may differ from theirs for that reason. Yes, my criticism was harsh. If you think it was overly so, that is your right. If you actually took the time to read my post carefully, you would notice that I did acknowlege the time demands. However, from my perspective, the lack of communication has been almost total. Instead of slamming my post, which is not very productive even of you are 100% correct, maybe some thought could be expended by you and others on how more information might be disseminated without greatly increasing demands on volunteers' time?

    You've been bitching about the same stuff for a while. Lots of other folks seem to be able to keep abreast of what is going on. Maybe you need to put a little more effort in. 

    You should have gotten a CNJFO blast 10/24. It was about contact your reps. Why? Because the pending bills are the current top focus for action by the rank and file. Previously they said they wanted people to notify them of carry permit issues. Because they need to gather data and potential plaintiffs for a suit. They may not spell it out, but if you need it spelled out, there may be no helping your feeling that you don't know what is going on. If you didn't see it, check your spam filters and make sure they are on the list for bypassing spam. 

    If you are an OBRPC member, attend the board meetings via zoom. They will have a segment on current actions and any news, but you have to be a member. Dunno if CJRPC has the same. 

    Similarly you can sit through the gun for hire segments they publish. 

    And if you don't like the way the people doing the work do it, feel free to start your own. 

     

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  10. 6 minutes ago, samiam said:

    Even that kind of statement, were it officially issued from one of those organizations, would be satisfactory, on at least a temporary basis. What is not at all satisfactory is complete silence. If keeping your supporters 100% in the dark is what you deem critical to your success, I hate to inform you that you have already lost the war, decisively. Blind trust is all too frequently exploited for total abuse. That lesson may be lost on some people here, but not on me. 

    They aren't silent. They just aren't saying it in public forums like this. You are noticing your lack of involvement and investment in staying on top of things, not the failure of others to do things. 

    Probably the most publicly accessible venue where you might see stuff are the gun for hire podcasts/videos. 

    I've been involved in this crap for decades now, but don't have the free time I used to. I'd take the current strategy over the much more vocal folks who came before and could barely get out of their own way. If you know how to do it better, go out and start suing people. It's been done before, some of them even semi competently. But for all your bitching about being in the dark, have you ever reached out to any of the orgs and volunteered? No? Your level of involvement affects how information flows to you. Or not. 

     

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  11. 1 hour ago, samiam said:

    I know that actually getting such things done is very time-consuming, but failure to take some time to let their constituency know what they are planning and doing is not a viable option. 

    Making your plans public is the same as telling your opposition your plans. It's being worked on. Everyone knows it involves gathering data and suing. In NJ, until the new batch of bad laws passes, we are dealing with a more complex legal challenge about patterns of behavior and what is actually happening vs what's actually written in the law. Stonewalling and slow walking things is a much harder thing to successfully sue over than a black and white law in violation. This may all just accelerate and be much more clear when they pass the new laws that give Bruen the middle finger. Then lumping in what was observed on the ground becomes an add on. 

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  12. 4 hours ago, Jon K said:

    This is the reason I haven't bothered to go through the process of getting a CCW, I knew it would be weeks before the Marxists running this state destroyed CCW. You can have a CCW, just can't use it ANYWHERE in the state. And no, you probably wont still be alive by the time the courts strike it down. If ever.

    While I figured this was coming, someone needs to be going through the process in order to have a plaintiff with standing. Myself I opted out and wrote a check to those who do the suing. 

    If you aren't applying, but would if not for this BS, you should be writing a check to FPC, ANJRPC, etc. 

    1 hour ago, 10X said:

    I’d think that the Bruen decision is sufficiently clear that we could get an injunction blocking enforcement of the bill blocking right to carry, should it become law.  I think it would ultimately be overturned, but we need that injunction while the courts sort it out. 

    You'd think, and federal judges thought so too. But the second circuit seems to think it doesn't deserve an injunction. So.. not feeling confident the third circuit will see it differently. 

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  13. 2 minutes ago, CMJeepster said:

    Not in the eyes of the government apparently.

    If you read through a lot of NJ law and regulations, you will see very much that first and foremost citizens are considered property of the state. From their perspective the criminal murdering you is just as problematic as you killing that criminal in self defense. You are both damaging their property. You are just as great an evil in their eyes as the murderer. 

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