FWIW, my wife and I form 4'd on a gun trust 3 weeks after 41F ruling. Still waiting to see how long new form 4s take...probably a year.
Here’s your simple answer: get THREE $500 BASIC mil-spec carbines. Get ‘em online and pick up through a licensed dealer (which you will have to — there’s no online loophole) — instead of one $1500 toy.
Buy an 80% gun and finish it yourself. No name, no number.
Go to slickguns.com to find legitimate deals at good online stores.
My preference would be heavy barrel, chambered for 5.56 round (you can shoot 223 in them), metal lower receiver and mounting rail (Picatinny/Weaver) for optics or flip up sights as a minimum..... This is the very basic list of my must haves. Other doodads increase the price and you can add them later as needed as you learn what you want.
Ensure that it’s chambered for 5.56 or has a wylde chamber that takes both 5.56 and .223. Stay away from .223 chambered. And keep it simple. You don’t have to go expensive. I recommend the Ruger AR556 or S&W M&P Sport II. You can customize from there. AND buy before the election, just in cast. Good Luck.
Oh boy are YOU gonna get some replies!
Colt has an AR for $750.
AR15s need a balance of factors for optimal performance, moreso than most guns. You’re looking for long range stability and fragmentation on impact, which is all a factor of: barrel length, twist rate, powder burn rate, muzzle velocity, bullet weight, ballistic coefficient, cannelure, and probably some others. Get that balance wrong and you’re prone to keyholeing, over penetration, etc.
These threads are like throwing meat to wolves.
My advice...
Buy a cheap one...like the S&W or a Bushmaster or whatever.
Keep it reasonably clean and run it wet. 1:9 to 1:7 twist will shoot any common ammo. Do get something that will chamber 5.56 and .223 and not .223 exclusively.
If and when parts break, you’ll know enough by then know what you got wrong. “Oh no, my bolt carrier key was poorly staked”
Chances are you’ll never put enough rounds down range with it to really make the difference between a $600 rifle and a $2500 rifle.
Mr. niteowl77
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Welcome to FR, you’ll get more opinions han you can shake a stick at on this thread.
Why an AR? They are likely to be among the first confiscated.
(They’re black and scary)
Buy an AK-47.
Go to the online Palmetto States Armory website. Look up their specials on uppers and lowers ... weekend specials will be dramatically reduced prices for mil spec uppers which can be shipped directly to your address and you sign for delivery. Buy two milspec lowers for AR15 and have them delivered to your FFL locally (these are the registered part). Match the uppers you buy to the lowers and enjoy. You might need to buy a complete bolt carrier group and charging handle for the uppers (about $100), so spend a few extra dollars and buy the Boron finished ones. You might have 1100 invested at that point, so be sure to order their 5.56 ammo special that includes 10 magazines (about $400).
BLOAT
Here’s what you need to know. Within 3 months, if Hillary wins you’ll be turning it over the Feds, do not buy an AR-15, go after some other gun that is not on the “current” target list. The AR-15 is the first to go, being caught with one will be 5 years or more in prison, not joking.
Buy a generic gun as cheap as you can find one new and shoot it for a year.
then you will know what you really want. You will get all your money back in a private sale via Craigslist or the like.
A .223 Wylde chamber is used on .223 caliber rifle barrels to allow them to safely fire either .223 Remington or 5.56x45mm NATO ammunition.
This opens up more ammo choices.
Check out sportsmansguide.com for a selection of AR 5.56 starting at $474.00. You can search by gauge and compare 12 models by price, features, and user reviews.
FWIW, my wife and I form 4'd on a gun trust 3 weeks after 41F ruling. Still waiting to see how long new form 4s take...probably a year.