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DD Omega 9" and leave the FSA alone. In time you won't even see it. The FS being attached to the barrel assures you won't lose zero if the rail gets loose and it is one less thing to do (not having to flip up a front sight) in the event of a RDS failure.

Just leave it the way it is. Spend the money on ammo and shoot the poop out of it. Eventually, if you use it enough, the carbine will all look the same. Who cares if the upper and lower don't match? It's a gun, not a purse and shoes.

What do you mean by optic? A red dot sight (RDS) is an optic and it can't be out of focus. Also, on a gun so equipped the RDS is generally the primary sighting device. If you are thinking about a precision rifle (bolt or gas) or a rifle setup for a primary role of engaging medium to long range targets, you may see an offset RDS or an ACOG with a mini red dot sight (MRDS) mounted above. In these instances the MRDS becomes a secondary sighting system that may be used as a primary optic in a different role. The magnified optic woud then be the primary sight for medium to long range precision engagement and the shooter will roll the rifle to use the MRDS/RDS as a primary sight in the event a target at medium to short range appears due to its advantage for slightly faster close engagements and greater field of view (FOV). The offset MRDS works OK but takes some practice to get quick with and can be difficult to zero. It can also be confusing to use for close quarter engagements as the angle it is mounted on can mess with your ability to instinctually adjust for the AR platform's mechanical offset (sometimes called a sight line/bore line discrepancy) by changing it from its normal orientation of vertical to the bore to an angle. This can be overcome with training, but can build scars if you use multiple weapon systems and don't stay current on all of your training with them. The MRDS above the ACOG is terrible on an M16/M4/AR type platform. Your mechanical offset inside 25 yards can be double (or more) what it typically is and you need to use an atrocious "chin weld" on the stock instead of the typical cheek weld. Avoid at all costs. If this isn't what you were talking about, can you post a pic of an example?

Received this today at work, I cannot confirm the veracity of this, so take it as info only: ETA: It is from January but it is the only official document I have seen so far regarding this investigation.

http://specopstech.com/newwebsite/comerce%20cart/osc/product_info.php?products_id=1772 S.O. Tech extended Go Bag with Padded Insert I can load mine with a broken down M4, six loaded magazines, a BFG 10-Speed chest rig, spare parts for the rifle (bolt, firing pin, extractor, charging handle, gas rings, etc.…), Extra batteries for my flashlight and optic, and a full blow out/GSW medic kit.

My quote is directly from the PWS website. They are stating it is still a HALO mounting option, not me. The HALO is designed to mount to any muzzle device that matches the outside dimensions of a NATO standard birdcage flash hider, regardless of the size and shapes of any compensating or moderating cuts in the device. There are no proprietary lugs or mounts to attach a HALO. If the length, diameter/circumference match a birdcage, it should mount. From Gemtech's website: Now, back to things that are NJ appropriate.

Like mipafox states below, the PWS FSC556 is described similarly to the way BCM has marketed and stated their comps performance features and the PWS FSC556 has been deemed "not a flash hider" by BATFE and is NJ legal. From PWS website (emphasis mine): Again I am not a lawyer and the best way to find an answer is to call the number I posted above and ask their opinion.

Thats the std price. Still less than a Battlecomp or FSC. In fact it is very reasonable for the product offered when compared to similar products if equal quality and performance. Like most things, you get what you pay for. If you really want your mind blown over the price of a muzzle-comp click here: http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/KAC-Knight-s-Armament-QD-Muzzle-Compensator-p/kac%2025683.htm As far as legality of the device, I don't know. It is marketed as a comp and not a FH, so it should be ok, but you never know in this state. Call the NJSP Firearms unit and ask them (609) 882-2000 Extension 2060. Ask them what their opinion is. Report back your findings please.

I am going to disagree here due to the overal generalization you are making when considering all aluminum lowers to be equal. If the lower is built to the meet or exceed the specs of the TDP (in tolerances, materials, and manufacturing processes) it is exceedingly rare for the receiver to fail without intentionally targeting that portion of the rifle. The receiver extension will fail way before you reach the force necessary to damage the actual receiver. Hobby guns are a different story, but then you are comparing apples to ducks.

I carried my work rifle on a single point sling for 3 years. I learned that if you want a sling that offers no shooting support, hits you in the nuts when you transition, bangs into your knees and crotch as you move and shoot following said transition, offer no support to push against while reloading, flags everyone around you when slung, smacks you in the chin with the butstock and lawn darts your barrel when you kneel while the long gun slung, and is impossible to control if you need to let go of the rifle to go hands on, but is great in the event you need to switch shoulders and smoke check some fool weak side - well then look no further, Single point slings rule the day! If, on the other hand, you want a sling that enhances your ability to fight with a long gun, gives you a more stable shooting platform, locks against your body and stays there when transitioning, stays out of your way while shooting on the move post transition, doesn't bang in to your knees or your junk when the long gun is released, offers resistance for more effecient reloads, doesn't interfere when going hands on, is out of the way when kneeling, and still allows you quick shoulder transitions - get yourself a quick adjust 2 point sling like the Blue Force Gear VCAS or Viking Tactics VTAC. Rung the back attachment on the single point sling attachment point where the receiver extension meets the receiver and attach the front of the sling as close to the receiver as possible. (A trick to make the quick adjust 2 point sling even faster when transitioning shoulders, is to attach your rear sling point on the strong side of the long gun. It provides built in slack when the stock switches shoulders.) ^^^ this ^^^ Stay away from the Magpul slings. I really wanted to like them but as innovative as they are, the are only a mediocre single point and a terrible quick adjust 2 point. As with most things in life, anything that tries to do everything, does nothing well. As for attachment point, the ASAP plate works well, but you need the Magpul clips. I ended up cutting my Magpul slings and putting the clips on 2 of my VCAS slings, then using the ASAP plate for the rear and the Magpul MSA MOE sling adapter up front. Since I didn't like the MS3 sling anyway, I canabalized the two I had. While I am really digging this setup on my two lightweight rifles, buying a $40 sling to cut up just for the clips so I can put them on a different $50 sling is just too painful on the wallet. My other other 2 rifles have a Tangodown PR4s and DD Omega rails with built in sling cups close to the receiver.

I thought the same thing.

In NJ even with a federal tax stamp both SBR and SBS are a no go. (All SBR & SBS are referred to as "Sawed Off Shotguns" in NJ) 2C:39-1. Definitions. The following definitions apply to this chapter and to chapter 58: o. "sawed-off shotgun" means any shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length measured from the breech to the muzzle, or a rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length measured from the breech to the muzzle, or any firearm made from a rifle or a shotgun, whether by alteration, or otherwise, if such firearm as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches. 2C:39-3. Prohibited Weapons and Devices. b. sawed-off shotguns. Any person who knowingly has in his possession any sawed-off shotgun is guilty of a crime of the third degree.

That actually made me laugh out loud!

While I like the conclusion to Part 2, I felt like it takes away from the impact on part one. Makes it less powerful. No one that I know that has read "Sunset" to has seen the end of part one coming the way it does. I think the message of part one is the more important lesson. We, and by we I mean 2A folks, we already know the lessons of part 2.

With how little you actually get to shoot all your cool stuff, I kind of believe that.... I carry a handgun every day. I wish I could carry a rifle every day.

With the news that New York will now be offering a $500 confiscation reward as seen in the below post: in this - http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/51654-new-york-governor-favors-easing-newly-passed-gun-law/page__p__671183__hl__reward__fromsearch__1#entry671183 - thread, it reminded me of this short story from 1994. Sundown at Coffin Rock by Raymond K. Paden -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The old man walked slowly through the dry, fallen leaves of autumn, his practiced eye automatically choosing the bare and stony places in the trail for his feet. There was scarcely a sound as he passed, though his left knee was stiff with scar tissue. He grunted occasionally as the tight sinews pulled. Damn chainsaw, he thought. Behind him, the boy shuffled along, trying to imitate his grandfather, but unable to mimic the silent motion that the old man had learned during countless winter days upon this wooded mountain in pursuit of game. He's fifteen years old, the old man thought. Plenty old enough to be learning...But that was another time, another America. His mind drifted, and he saw himself, a fifteen-year-old boy following in the footsteps of his own grandfather, clutching a twelve gauge in his trembling hands as they tracked a wounded whitetail. The leg was hurting worse now, and he slowed his pace a bit. Plenty of time. It should have been my own son here with me now, the old man thought sadly. But Jason had no interest, no understanding. He cared for nothing but pound- ing on the keys of that damned computer terminal. He knew nothing about the woods, or where food came from...or free- dom. And that's my fault, isn't it? The old man stopped and held up his hand, motioning for the boy to look. In the small clearing ahead, the deer stood motionless, watching them. It was a scraggly buck, underfed and sickly, but the boy's eyes lit up with excitement. It had been many years since they had seen even a single white- tail here on the mountain. After the hunting had stopped, the population had exploded. The deer had eaten the mountain almost bare until erosion had become a serious problem in some places. That following winter, three starving does had wandered into the old man's yard, trying to eat the bark off of his pecan trees, and he had wished the "animal rights" fanatics could have been there then. It was against the law, but old man knew a higher law, and he took an axe into the yard and killed the staving beasts. They did not have the strength to run. The buck finally turned and loped away, and they continued down the trail to the river. When they came to the "Big Oak," the old man turned and pushed through the heavy brush beside the trail and the boy followed, wordlessly. The old man knew that Thomas was curious about their leaving the trail, but the boy had learned to move silently (well, almost) and that meant no talking. When they came to "Coffin Rock," the old man sat down upon it and motioned for the boy to join him. "You see this rock, shaped like a casket?" the old man asked. "Yes sir." The old man smiled. The boy was respectful and polite. He loved the outdoors, too. Everything a man could ask in a grandson...or a son. "I want you to remember this place, and what I'm about to tell you. A lot of it isn't going to make any sense to you, but it's important and one day you'll understand it well enough. The old man paused. Now that he was here, he didn't really know where to start. "Before you were born," he began at last, "this country was different. I've told you about hunting, about how everybody who obeyed the law could own guns. A man could speak out, anywhere, without worrying about whether he'd get back home or not. School was different, too. A man could send his kids to a church school, or a private school, or even teach them at home. But even in the public schools, they didn't spend all their time trying to brainwash you like they do at yours now." The old man paused, and was silent for many minutes. The boy was still, watching a chipmunk scavenging beside a fallen tree below them. "Things don't ever happen all at once, boy. They just sort of sneak up on you. Sure, we knew guns were important; we just didn't think it would ever happen in America. But we had to do something about crime, they said. It was a crisis. Everything was a crisis! It was a drug crisis, or a terror- ism crisis, or street crime, or gang crime. Even a 'health care' crisis was an excuse to take away a little more of our rights." The old man turned to look at his grandson. "They ever let you read a thing called the Constitution down there at your school?" The boy solemnly shook his head. "Well, the Fourth Amendment's still in there. It says there won't be any unreasonable searches and seizures. It says you're safe in your own home." The old man shrugged. "That had to go. It was a crisis! They could kick your door open any time, day or night, and come in with guns blazing if they thought you had drugs...or later, guns. Oh, at first it was just registration - to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals! But that didn't work, of course, and then later when they wanted to take 'em they knew where to look. They banned 'assault rifles,' and then 'sniper rifles,' and 'Saturday-night specials.' Everything you saw on the TV or in the movies was against us. God knows the news people were! And the schools were teaching our kids that nobody needed guns anymore. We tried to take a stand, but we felt like the whole face of our country had changed and we were left outside. "Me and a friend of mine, when we saw what was happening, we came and built a secret place up here on the mountain. A place where we could put our guns until we needed them. We figured some day Americans would remember what it was like to be free, and what kind of price we had to pay for that freedom. So we hid our guns instead of losing them." "One fellow I knew disagreed. He said we ought to use our guns now and stand up to the government. 'Said that the colonists had fought for their freedom when the British tried to disarm them at Lexington and Concord. Well, he and a lot of others died in what your history books call the 'Tax Revolt of 1998,' but son, it wasn't the revolt that caused the repeal of the Second Amendment like your history book says. The Second Amendment was already gone long before they ever repealed it. The rest of us thought we were doing the right thing by waiting. I hope to God we were right. "You see, Thomas. It isn't government that makes a man free. In the end, governments always do just the opposite. They gobble up freedom like hungry pigs. You have to have laws to keep the worst in men under control, but at the same time the people have to have guns, too, in order to keep the government itself under control. In our country, the people were supposed to be the final authority of the law, but that was a long time ago. Once the guns were gone, there was no reason for those who run the government to give a damn about laws and constitutional rights and such. They just did what they pleased and anyone who spoke out...well, I'm getting ahead of myself. "It took a long time to collect up all the millions of firearms that were in private hands. The government created a whole new agency to see to it. There were rewards for turning your friends in, too. Drug dealers and murderers were set free after two or three years in prison, but pos- session of a gun would get you mandatory life behind bars with no parole. "I don't know how they found out about me, probably knew I'd been a hunter all those years, or maybe somebody turned me in. They picked me up on suspicion and took me down to the federal building. "Son, those guys did everything they could think of to me. Kept me locked up in this little room for hours, no food, no water. They kept coming in, asking me where the guns were. 'What guns?' I said. Whenever I'd doze off, they'd come crashing in, yelling and hollering. I got to where I didn't know which end was up. I'd say I wanted my lawyer and they'd laugh. 'Lawyers are for criminals,' they said. 'You'll get a lawyer after we get the guns.' What's so funny is, I know they thought they were doing the right thing. They were fighting crime! "When I got home I found Ruth sitting in the middle of the living room floor, crying her eyes out. The house was a shambles. While I was down there, they'd come out and took our house apart. Didn't need a search warrant, they said. National emergency! Gun crisis! Your grandma tried to call our preacher and they ripped the phone off the wall. Told her that they'd go easy on me if she just told them where I kept my guns." The old man laughed. "She told them to go to hell." He stared into the distance for a moment as his laughter faded. "They wouldn't tell her about me, where I was or anything, that whole time. She said that she'd thought I was dead. She never got over that day, and she died the next December. "They've been watching me ever since, off and on. I guess there's not much for them to do anymore, now that all the guns are gone. Plenty of time to watch one foolish old man." He paused. Beside him, the boy stared at the stone beneath his feet. "Anyway, I figure that, one day, America will come to her senses. Our men will need those guns and they'll be ready. We cleaned them and sealed them up good; they'll last for years. Maybe it won't be in your lifetime, Thomas. Maybe one day you'll be sitting here with your son or grandson. Tell him about me, boy. Tell him about the way I said America used to be." The old man stood, his bad leg shaking unstead- ily beneath him. "You see the way this stone points? You follow that line one-hundred feet down the hill and you'll find a big round rock. It looks like it's buried solid, but one man with a good prybar can lift it, and there's a concrete tunnel right under there that goes back into the hill." The old man stood, watching as the sun eased toward the ridge, coloring the sky and the world red. Below them, the river still splashed among the stones, as it had for a million years. It's still going, the old man thought. There'll be someone left to carry on for me when I'm gone. It was harder to walk back. He felt old and purposeless now, and it would be easier, he knew, to give in to that aching heaviness in his left lung that had begun to trouble him more and more. Damn cigarettes, he thought. His leg hurt, and the boy silently came up beside him and supported him as they started down the last mile toward the house. How quiet he walks, the old man thought. He's learned well. It was almost dark when the boy walked in. His father looked up from his paper. "Did you and your granddad have a nice walk?" "Yes," the boy answered, opening the refrigerator. "You can call Agent Goodwin tomorrow. Gramps finally showed me where it is."

Yes. I have the 27. I bought it to fill a specific reason/purpose. Given a choice, I would have gotten a 26 instead. On the timer I am faster and more accurate shooting the 26 vs. the 27 all day long as the 9mm recoil is not as "snappy" (subjective observation) as the .40, and I can get the sights back on target much faster. In that size Glock, get the 26. You will be much happier. Also, this specific topic is covered here at least monthly if not more often. Use the search tool to see the other threads on this exact question for more info. On another note, what I the proposed purpose for the sub-compact Glock? Range toy, HD, CCW, BUG?

Oh Really? Post #3 Post #4 referencing the Devils leaving NJ Looks like you came in just to bash the Devils. I asked what your team was because, hey maybe your team is better than mine and you have a legitimate claim that compared to your guys, the Devils actually suck. Happily you back the Rangers, and they have been found wanting since 1994. Just sayin'

Yet you came in here to tell us how badly the Devils sucked. Nobody said anything bad about the Rangers, Or made any comments comparing the two teams, until you brought it up. Just sayin'

Wait what? The Devils have won 3 cups and made it to the SC Finals 2 other times since 1995. That's 5 SC Final appearances out of the last 17 (No Cup awarded in 2005) . That's over a quarter of the last SC finals played in the last 19 years compared to the NYRs 0%. Haters gonna hate. The last time the NYR won a Cup or even made it to the finals was 1994 when they won. If second place does not qualify as something to you, what does a team that hasn't even made 2nd place since 1994 qualify as?

I hope not if he is making "10 years since they won anything" comments! That would be embarrassing

Who's your team?

You state BUIS so I am assuming you also have an optic? I like the diopter as an Iron Sight but it does not fold down and I like my BUIS on optic equipped rifles to stow away when not in use. The Troy BUIS are the standard with the KAC, MaTech, and GG&G MAD thrown in there as well. The front sight profile is user preference based on looks. I have found no discernible difference between Standard and HK profile front sights in speed or accuracy.

I agree with this 100%. The only things will add is this: At the end of the day the Kriss is just a big pistol, and by all accounts one with some serious teething issues. (Yes, the recoil system is fairly revolutionary, but it still has some bugs) If I am going to carry a weapon as big as a rifle into harms way, I am going to carry it in a rifle caliber. I already have a pistol on my hip, why carry a bigger one? While they are tons of fun to shoot, Subguns in general are a niche item. They perform a few necessary functions in a CQB environment, most of which will never fly in a CONUS theater of operations (and I wont get into specific TTPs on an open forum), but are limited in their effectiveness in every other combat role. JT, I know you we're asking a out the Kriss, but you brought ARs into this when comparing them using subjective and unsubstantiated facts.

First, please define "feeds better" and why the "Glock mag system and feed ramp" is superior to an AR built to the TDP? Second, define "Close quarter situation" and demonstrate how the Kriss will "shoot as accurate (if not better that an AR)"? Even if this gun was more reliable and accurate (which I don't believe for a second) than a Quality AR, it is still firing a handgun cartridge that is inferior in every way to the terminal ballistics of a 5.56 round. It is absolutely the definition of a niche/novelty weapon and an answer that is looking for a question. Please explain to me how is the AR platform/M16 Family of Weapons a novelty? It is the longest serving combat rifle in the history of the US. The M16FOW has put more people underground than the NY Subway system. How is that a novelty? Finally, Is your optic on backwards in that photo? I agree 100%