Silly question here....Lakeside promotes this product as select fire capable, I am assuming that I would need to already have a select fire AR, not that it would turn my semi into a select fire. Seems that might cause me a few legal problems?
It would be like an auto sear, with a necessary tax stamp, but it's post-'86, and I doubt many PDs or military agencies will be buying them... so I have to echo WayneChung's question: How?
Lawd knows that ATF gets their panties in a wad if somebody's 10-.22 or Nylon 66 starts ripping full-auto...
OK Tam, you can tell us. Did you buy that one or is yours on order? Let us know what brand of ammo it likes to eat. I do hope they mass produce them to bring down the price.
I think my looks-wierd-o-meter just got recalibrated.
That said, once my current "want" list is cleansed, something tells me that might just get added... Without a full-auto lower, I cannot totally rationalize it, but something that evil-looking rationalizes itself, especially in .22.
I think a semi-auto would make it easier to clear the jams that bulk .22lr is known for. Just because it's so small and there's so many in the box, perhaps they have a special malf-tool. I don't think I could buy a Dillon to re-load for it. ;-)
Hopefully they work 100%, unlike version 1 they did a couple of years ago, but knowing the average .22 LR that is available, I'm not going to hold my breath.
Kinda unfortunate, really, since I think belt fed uppers for ARs are very cool.
Damm you hide. Here I was going to make a nice, reliable hog shooter in 6.8. Yah, I might shoot it twice a year. BUT NOW, I'm going to get stuck with a belt fed 22! How much use can that be? But it will be fun to bamboozel the guys at the range. I wonder how long it takes to torch off 300 rounds and will my suppressor heat up?
Damn. I don't even LIKE black guns and I want one of those.
ReplyDeleteOh, it had a little miniature feed cover and everything. It was just... wait, can I use "precious" to describe a firearm?
ReplyDeleteThat thing would be more fun than a shoebox full of crack-smoking bullfrogs.
Precious is just fine by me. I want a bowl-fed GAU in 22 lr, and I'd call it "My precious"
ReplyDeleteIf I got one of these, my new hobby would be putting rounds in belts, I'd be doing it all night every night.
WV: oryporsi. A disease of the hands one gets after loading 300,000,000 22 rounds in cloth belts.
I think we just nipped any potential "What gun for a horde of zombie squirrels?" thread in the bud.
ReplyDeleteZombie squirrels do tend to run in hordes.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's not your brains that Zombie squirrels are after.
ReplyDeleteNuts!
I'd think for squirrel a belt fed shot gun would be the ticket.
Well my WANT! list just got reshuffled in a big way.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous wins!
ReplyDeleteThat is teh awesome. :P
ReplyDeleteSince none of my buds will be able to afford to feed their pre-ordered Shrike .223 uppers when/if they ever ship, maybe this is the stopgap answer!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that unlike Ares, the guys at Lakeside answer their phones and respond to correspondence also.
"...I haven't had a case of the Wants this bad in a long time..."
ReplyDeleteYou don't actually expect us to believe that, do you? I mean, you've had a serious Jonesin' for several different boomsticks of late.
Oh, I get it, this one is about degree of want.
Nevermind.
Silly question here....Lakeside promotes this product as select fire capable, I am assuming that I would need to already have a select fire AR, not that it would turn my semi into a select fire. Seems that might cause me a few legal problems?
ReplyDeleteIt would be like an auto sear, with a necessary tax stamp, but it's post-'86, and I doubt many PDs or military agencies will be buying them... so I have to echo WayneChung's question: How?
ReplyDeleteLawd knows that ATF gets their panties in a wad if somebody's 10-.22 or Nylon 66 starts ripping full-auto...
I suspect it's auto capable the same way any AR upper is auto capable on a full auto lower.
ReplyDelete$700 is a lot better price than the previous upper they sold, which went for $3000 IIRC.
ReplyDeleteOf course it would be, Alan. I'm embarrassed that I posted without thinking; I was distracted by the belt-fed goodness.
ReplyDeleteI love it - catch and release, except backwards!
ReplyDeleteput a can on it - put it on a RR M16 - never leave the house.
ReplyDeleteI can here gophers sh*tting themselves from here.
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I can't see the point, unless you have a registered M16 lower or DIAS to pair it with. If you did though, it'd be the best $700 you ever spent.
ReplyDeleteOK Tam, you can tell us. Did you buy that one or is yours on order? Let us know what brand of ammo it likes to eat. I do hope they mass produce them to bring down the price.
ReplyDeleteI still don't get it. If you can afford a M16 or the parts to convert your AR15 to full auto, will the price of .223 really cause that much heartburn?
ReplyDeleteI think my looks-wierd-o-meter just got recalibrated.
ReplyDeleteThat said, once my current "want" list is cleansed, something tells me that might just get added... Without a full-auto lower, I cannot totally rationalize it, but something that evil-looking rationalizes itself, especially in .22.
Beware the fury of belt-fed .22!
Even used on a semiauto lower... well... look, some things just don't need a raison for their d'etre.
ReplyDeleteI think a semi-auto would make it easier to clear the jams that bulk .22lr is known for. Just because it's so small and there's so many in the box, perhaps they have a special malf-tool. I don't think I could buy a Dillon to re-load for it. ;-)
ReplyDeleteTam,
ReplyDeleteYes, you can use "precious" to describe a gun or gun accessory.
You even "may" use precious to describe it {chuckle, I was channeling 2nd grade Sister Camille there for a second).
Just don't sit around a dank, dark cave, rubbing your hands and hissing about "your precious" and teh "nsaty, tricksie, hobbitses,"
Word verify -- "coffrog". Speaking of a shoebox full of crack-smoking bullfrogs. . .
Hopefully they work 100%, unlike version 1 they did a couple of years ago, but knowing the average .22 LR that is available, I'm not going to hold my breath.
ReplyDeleteKinda unfortunate, really, since I think belt fed uppers for ARs are very cool.
Damm you hide. Here I was going to make a nice, reliable hog shooter in 6.8. Yah, I might shoot it twice a year. BUT NOW, I'm going to get stuck with a belt fed 22! How much use can that be? But it will be fun to bamboozel the guys at the range. I wonder how long it takes to torch off 300 rounds and will my suppressor heat up?
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