thing about guns and crime and stats

 

1. Yes, odd that the lower is the only part classified as a firearm. When I built the wife’s AR57, I purchased the upper at one store and the lower at another. Only did one background check.

   I’ve considered buying a .22 upper so she could practice without having to fire the “hard to find” 5.7 ammo - but haven’t yet.

   Posted by jackal40       08/18/2013  at  07:50 AM  



2. Wow, a 57? Talk about your stubby no-recoil ammo! Sweet. But I thought that stuff was rather spendy?

   Posted by Drew458       08/18/2013  at  10:37 AM  



3. Peiper, waiting periods exist as a sop to the lefties. They are supposed to stop people from running out and getting a gun “in the heat of the moment”. They’ve probably caused more deaths than they’ve stopped ... like when the woman wants a gun right now because her deranged ex is in town, calling her up to say he’s coming by to eat her heart with a spoon, restraining order be damned.

   And people who have done serious crime aren’t allowed to have guns anyhow. And since most criminals stick with being criminals, the more hardened types don’t even try to buy guns legally. If you look up the NICS statistics at the FBI, you’ll see tens, hundreds, of millions of checks performed across the years, but only a few tens of thousands of rejections. Bad guys steal their guns, or buy them off the street.

   Oh, and the background check really is close to instant; these days even the fingerprint is digitally scanned and computer processed.

   You can buy parts for just about any firearm ever made. They’re just parts. But the feds decided that one of these parts has to be the heart of the gun. For most of them, this is the part called the receiver. A receiver usually has the barrel attached to it, the trigger assembly attached to it, and sits in the stock. It’s also the part that has the serial number engraved on it. The AR rifle, the “platform” is remarkable flexible design. But the heart of the system is the lower receiver, commonly just called the lower. It holds the trigger, it holds the magazine, and all the other parts of the gun attach to the upper which then attaches to the lower. So it’s the heart of the beast, and the part that is regulated.

   Well ... it’s regulated when it’s a finished part. When it’s unfinished, you can just buy one, because it’s only a chunk of aluminum. There are underground clubs and meetings all across America, where somebody owns a small precision milling machine and a set of instructions. Guys show up with their half-machined metal blanks, spend a couple hours in the basement, and go home with a fully finished lower receiver. With no sales record, and no serial number. This is completely legal, since there is no law again anyone making their own firearm. But God help you if you try to sell it.

   Posted by Drew458       08/18/2013  at  10:51 AM  



4. Oh yes, it was pricy. $950 for the upper, $300 for the lower.

   However, it was money well spent as she is dead on accurate out to 200 yards! Plus, it gives her the same ammo for rifle and pistol.

   Posted by jackal40       08/19/2013  at  07:24 AM  

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