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Tony, have you ever considered doing AOW saigas at all? Or would making the receivers be too much of a pain in the ass? I've always thought that a saiga pistol with a 5 rounder would make a neat car gun.

I would be leery of doing CNS shots or using something as splashy as 12 gauge buck on a rabid animal. Rabies is a really fucked up disease and it can kill you even in these modern times.

Yeah I didnt bother to shepardize staples. I'm not really surprised. Lack of SCOTUS attention to 2nd amedment issues has let the lower courts run wild. Constant hammering by prosecutors and a steady supply of unsympathetic criminal defendants is like the tide eating away at a shoreline. If you dont reinforce it eventually it all washes out to sea. It's very frustrating how things like firearms laws, tax laws and drug laws have just become a prosecutor's toolbox for "getting bad people" in place of doing good work gathering evidence of real crimes.

Calm down. How the hell will they get such laws passed? 94 ban was crippled from the outset and half of congress lost their jobs after that one. No way they pass an even harsher ban with a far more pro-gun congress than we had in 94.

Since 1994, the government has to prove that you knew that your weapon has the characteristics that make it regulated. Here is the reasoning:

Youre confusing "willfully" with "knowingly"- willfully requires knowledge of the illegality, knowingly requires knowledge of the characteristics which set it outisde the law. For example- Willfully: evading the 10k cash deposit reporting requirement is only illegal if you do so with the intent of breaking the law. You have to know about the law, know what you are doing violates the law and do so anyway. Knowingly: possession of a short barreled shotgun only requires that you be aware that the shotgun be below 18 inches, not that you know the legal requirement is 18. Having a 17 inc

They accepted DD registrations on the 1994 shotguns for over 10 years. And they will still accept them if you have a good excuse for not having been contacted about their change in status. Possession of NFA contraband has a "knowingly" element, so a Title 1 firearm that gets reclassified doesnt automatically put you in jail- you have to have been informed that it is now a Title 2 weapon so you decide not to register it and commit the crime. They arent going to reclassify the saiga unless we get an antigun administration. And even then, it will be difficult to prove that we knew we po

Why a dual stage/dual charge propellant? Doesnt the caseless stuff basically let you pick an appropriate size nozzle for whatever burn rate of propellant you use? The pressure would get bled off through the nozzle as the powder burned. You wouldnt even need the barrel beyond the first few inches since the projectile can direct the propulsive force that would otherwise need to get trapped in the barrel. It would basically be like a goldilocks round halfway between a firecracker and an RPG. I know we did miniature rocket rounds back in the 60s- I think it was called gyrojet, so I know it is tech

That would pretty much be my number one worry of playing with explosive projectiles.

Yeah, obviously one would have to be very careful in designing grenade ammo. It is the sort of item prone to failing in a very dramatic fashion. I would have been more concerned about getting it downrange without exploding and then making it explode reliably even on glancing hits. Didnt the soviets experiment with using caseless grenade rounds? Hold the charge inside the projectile itself. It wouldn't have the low charge density problem and it would end up front heavy once it left the barrel, which would enhance stability.

You are misunderstanding my post. -origin of raw materials is irrelevant. US firearms are made with foreign raw materials all the time. You think when Ruger orders 10,000 steel billets from a warehouse they check to make sure they are all US steel? You think US steel manufacturers ensure that they only use US iron ore? -if you "make" a 922® part in this country, it is a US made 922® part, regardless of where the raw material came from. As long as the raw materials ceased to be a 922® part at some point prior to being "made" it isnt an imported part. Sawing out the thumbhole in a chin

Ok, I found one case, where a guy sued after having his FFL application turned down for previously committing various violations, one of which was putting non-sporting features (a bayonet) on an SKS, which consists entirely of unequivocably imported parts. Trader Vic's Ltd v. O'Neill, 169 F. Supp. 2d 957 (O'Neill was sued in his capacity as sec of treasury in 2001)

That's such bullshit. A huge portion of the steel in this country comes from china and japan right now. The origin of the raw material is irrelevant. The "making" of the part is the important step- at what point did it become the part it is now? If you use part of a russian trigger to make a new, different trigger, you have made a US part- you unmade the foreign part and then used the pieces to make a new US part. The only time this doesnt hold true is if you: -take a foreign part and modify it in such a way that it doesnt make transition from "non-part" to "part" in the US- refinishing

If you can find them is the catch. You can't. IMO your best bet would be to become an SOT and start manufacturing your own. Manufacturing and storing explosives brings you into an interesting area of the law, doubly so if you screw up. Strict liability is a huge bitch to deal with. Lets put it this way- if someone breaks into your shop and decides to torch it to cover his tracks- you get to foot the bill for all your neighbors that get hit by the grenades as they cook off.

2 words: barrel length. 18 22 caliber pellets is still less mass then 12 pellets of 00 buck. Not to mention the saiga can fire 10 of them in rapid succession. I'm not trying to talk you out of it. There's no reason to not own silly toys, but you should realize what youre getting into- this has zero usefulness as a weapon. ESPECIALLY mounted to a saiga 12. I'd even go so far as to argue that a saiga 12 with HE shells would be better in many ways than a 40mm weapon.

Yeah, that's the whole point of it. It lets you use your 40mm toy as a weapon because without ammo it is basically a big paperweight. There is a reason you never see guys using anything but practice rounds, because thats basically all you can get for them. And all of those beehive type shells suck because they have less power and mass than a 12 gauge shell while weighing and costing more than ordinary 12 ga ammo. 9 x 22 caliber projectiles < 12 x 33 caliber projectiles. If 40mm HE rounds ever become available to civilians again, I will be the first person to get a GL, but unt

I like that vented upper half.

Yeah, its the korsak laser. Who is making that bracket to adapt to the AK style lower foreends? I really want to go to a galil style forend like micah has.

40mm is a large-bore destructive device. Individual grenades (or any exploding weapon or round) are DDs themselves as well. You also need special permits for storing the rounds. So you need licensing and proper storage facilities for the grenades and 200 dollars a grenade in transfer fees. Its really lame. You have to remember that anyone storing or using explosives is subject to strict liability in civil cases- there basically isnt any defense if someone can show that your explosives harmed them or their property. It comes from decades of lawsuits against companies that were sloppy i

I heard the 40mm buckshot rounds really sucked because the velocity was very low to keep the recoil manageable. The main problem with owning the M203 is that the ammo is nearly impossible to get. If you could get rid of the stupid ammo restrictions, it would be trivial to make or purchase 12ga HE rounds. It would be 1/4 of the payload of the 40mm stuff, but you could shoot far more of it with a far greater range and accuracy.

Oh yeah, here is my room broom. How do you guys make those AK style handguards? I really like them a lot more than the stock saiga foreend, which IMO looks like ass.

I made a long post with pictures but apparently AGP already knows that the feed lips suck and they are sending out replacements. When? I dont know.

Personally I'm not too keen on the chicom style drums from an economic standpoint. The drums were neat but I'm not sure you would have people lined up around the block for them. There are still plenty of ruskie drums and rpk banana mags floating around. If you could make a modular design so that it could be fitted with one of two magwell designs during production, you could sell one line to the AK crowd and another to the AR crowd. I think a reliable AK-style drum for the AR would be neat. Also, I liked the 45 ACP uzi mags because there is pent up demand for them, but it might be too

Those russian guys who were squeezing the marketplace are gonna be hard up for customers thanks to AGP. Competition is so awesome. Pretty amazing how long it took to go to market once it was obvious there was huge demnd for these mags. I wanted to manufacture saiga mags in 2004 but I realized early on that I didnt have the money or time. This raises another question- now that AGP knows how to make magazines, a any chance of more magazine related ventures? Chinese style AK drums? Any patents on those have surely expired by now. Olympic arms would probably pay solid money for a st

Meh, I have law school finals and then I am going up to see my parents in NY where all my guns are illegal anyway. Wish I could go hunting.