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Right now, the plan is to be in-line with the non-window AR15 M3 line at $21.95 MSRP while the cut-down AR15 mags are $23.50. And before anyone asks, at this time, there's no plan to make a cut-down AK PMAG.

I'm trying to tell myself to hold off buying a March 1-8 and go with a SWFA 1-6.

My SPR is my second favorite AR to shoot now. Done right, they're pretty versatile.

Middle of nowhere Iowa never looked so good...

B&M gun stores survive on the upsell.

The kind of disaster that destroys the natural ecology isn't very high on my list of scenarios to prepare for nor is it one that I would necessarily want to survive in. I use "in" and "through" with regard to survival because one says this is the way it is and will be while the other says it's a temporary condition to ultimately work through. The most likely is social/financial collapse, in my opinion, and that's what I prep for. I prep for that because not only do I feel it's the most likely to occur but also because it's one I would want to survive through and make it to the other side when rebuilding takes place. Surviving for the sake of surviving in a hopeless world without the chance of improvement is not one that I would necessarily want to survive in.

Test fit so far in Century, Arsenal and IO guns. Load against a closed bolt just fine in all three however the IO does take a little fitting which can be accomplished by inserting and removing the mag a couple times. This has nothing to do with the modification as even unmodified, right from the wrapper factory AK PMAGs require the same fitting. Test firing commencing this week. Assuming all goes as planned, we'll start shipping to dealers soon after.

That's too bad. We recently shipped them a lower to transfer too.

Saw it and it affirmed my position of bugging in somewhere isolated and out of the way with substantial provisions of all sorts.

The article has since been updated with clarification from the owner of New Frontier Armory which provides the critical information that was missing from the originally published article.

There's more information behind this story than is let on. I won't comment on it yet as I'll wait for someone closer to the source to either say something publicly or give me the go-ahead to comment.

Running an e-commerce site in addition to a B&M is a little harder than it looks. Keeping inventory straight is one of the biggest issues as the point of sale system may or may not communicate with the cart and adjust inventory to account for local sales. Additionally, staffing almost has to go up as you can't expect someone to work both the front of the store and pick and pack online orders. Most of the bigger online retailers that have storefronts operate by having the two arms of the business operating almost independently. Rainier, Joe Bob, and PSA all run their online business with staff dedicated to just fulfilling online orders while having separate staff to man the B&M portion.

Which one?

I don't know his exact reasoning but if it's who I think it was, my opinion is because he's an attention whore.

I believe I know who the dealer is that did that...and he did it with that express purpose. I'd have to dig through forum posts on a private dealer-only forum to find it but IIRC, he got the idea from DPMS when they made a .308 AR pistol.

I'd take a hard look at the Centurion Arms C4. Monty, the guy who runs Centurion, currently serves as an active-duty SEAL and was recently moved from San Diego to Indiana. I don't know if his current deployment has him stationed at Crane/NAVSEA but he knows his stuff. The bolts are C158 and individually MPIed but specifically not HPTed as he says it's a partially destructive test that drastically reduces bolt life. Extractors are machined tool steel and not MIM or cast. Same goes for the gas keys. They're hooked up with FN (they produce their hammer forged barrels) and I suspect they're also the source for these BCGs.

House branded BCGs probably aren't coming back in stock any time soon. Reason for this is the market is racing to the bottom right now on BCGs. Phos for $80, nitrided for $100, and NiB for $100-130. In order to compete at these prices, I would have to give up certain things that I'm not willing to give up like tool steel extractors. BCGs is very much a volume game and the difference in cost between buying 100 at a time vs. 1000 is pretty substantial. I could bring 100 of my house-branded BCGs to market however they would likely sit for months due to the majority of buyers right now buying solely on price even though the feature set of my house-branded BCG is better. I do have a small number set aside to go out with the complete Centurion/Fortis uppers that are in stock. These BCGs were all test fired with their respective uppers so I won't be parting them out. As much as I'd like to reinvest in house-branded BCGs, I'm still a commercial entity in need of good ROI and turns to invest in product. Once the BCG market stabilizes, I'll have house branded BCGs again at fair prices without having to sacrifice quality. I do have Centurion Arms C4, WMD Guns NiB-X, and Fail Zero EXO/NiB in stock right now though. I'm working with a source right now to see if I can't bring a premium feature-set nitrided BCG out at a modest premium over the existing nitride offerings. I won't go into all the details but this BCG would have more than a couple functional upgrades at a lower price point than would be expected. We're moving locations in under three months so that may also play into the decision making matrix.

So I'm going from 22nd to 15th? I'll buy that for a dollar!

Give my buddy Greg Peters a shout. His Spada OWB is my daily OWB holster because it keeps the gun nice and tight against my body and has excellent retention. http://peterscustomholsters.com

Prototypes are going out tomorrow!

Fixed: DD Flip: MBUS Pro (holy small footprint, Batman!)

The tooling for these sucks to make but we're getting there, little by little.

Due to design issues with the non-reciprocating charging handle, the sidecharge uppers I was planning on stocking are shelved for now. This is because the majority of the rails I sell have anti-rotation tabs which make them incompatible with the receiver. The Cross Hill side charge uppers I currently stock work without issue.

Not necessarily. I'd take a look at the surface of your buffer to see if hasn't been battered or otherwise physically damaged while cycling.

I only mentioned it because of the excessive buildup after only two rounds. Because the bolt didn't unlock, more gas than normal exited between the block and barrel. Is your gas block pinned on or a set screw? I'm wondering if the ID of the gas block isn't a little oversized and more gas than normal is escaping but not enough to cause cycling issues.