[ASOC]

The outfit that made your weapon is Kahr (DBA AutoOrdinance) - check out their site, they have an on line owners manual. Check it out, and do a full PM on your weapon, a good way to sense the things karma, for lack of a better term. You *do need* special tools/some training to pull the gas tappet.

BTW, all the receivers are machined, back in the day they used billets (a solid block of metal), now days they machine from castings.

The Rugar Mini 14/30 use blowback, sort of like the tappet, to cycle their weapons - messier to clean up but easier to maintain. And weapons maintenance = better safety and reliabiity.

[Hazcat]

The outfit that made your weapon is Kahr (DBA AutoOrdinance) - check out their site, they have an on line owners manual.

The only thing I see on their site is for the Thompson. You're saying they made the Universal Arms M1 Carbine?