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BTW, could you repost that site to this thread with the info for the SL-8 to G-36 conversion to this thread? It was quite informative, to say nothing of interesting to see ingenuity like that at work.

I often wondered why manufacturers of semiautos left the barrels "slick" after the ban, when a simple lathe job would have yielded a "muzzle device" which had at least the proper "look" to it.

To me at least, a semiauto lookalike just plain looks strange and incomplete without a muzzle device of some kind.

Also, it demonstrates the utter futility of the Ban, when industrious, independant, and ingenious Americans go to work on the problem.

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BTW, could you repost that site to this thread with the info for the SL-8 to G-36 conversion to this thread? It was quite informative, to say nothing of interesting to see ingenuity like that at work.

I sure can, complete with a *before and after* comparison, too:

AlpineTech SL-8/G36 conversion work.

I often wondered why manufacturers of semiautos left the barrels "slick" after the ban, when a simple lathe job would have yielded a "muzzle device" which had at least the proper "look" to it.

To me at least, a semiauto lookalike just plain looks strange and incomplete without a muzzle device of some kind. Well, it will at least make turning threads on the end easier once the AWB sunsets in 22 weeks so that flawsh suppressory san be retrofitted. But note that the most accurate barrels fitted on match target rifles are usually plain aside from a recessed target crown. Even the earliest FAL rifles were usually not fitted with a flash hider at all, and several nations' FALs were lacking them, notably Israels.

Also, it demonstrates the utter futility of the Ban, when industrious, independant, and ingenious Americans go to work on the problem.

Oh yes. Though the idea may too have been to get Americans to grudgingly comply with unconstitutionasl and unlawful dictatesgets back to the nature of such legislation as a temporary nuisance.