acudanut wrote: ↑November 6th, 2019, 3:46 pm
Raymond, back in May you posted about AR-15 lower/pistols. I thought the lower had to be stamped "Pistol".
Anyway, I hear AR-15 Pistols are crazy loud and you need a laser to aim them ?
A laser is mainly useful at close ranges with a pistol or longer ranges in the dark with a rifle.
Stripped AR 15 "virgin" lowers can be used to build a pistol or a rifle. These are usually marked "multi cal" on the receiver and are designated as "other" instead of long gun or pistol on the BATFE paperwork when sold.
A rifle must have a 16 inch barrel.
However, once a rifle, always a rifle, you cannot convert it into a pistol by adding a short barrel upper. You can add the "pistol brace" so long as the compacted weapon is has a 16 inch barrel and a total length greater than 26 inches.
On a pistol, you can add a rifle upper, but you can never add a rifle stock while the shorter barreled upper is attached to the lower while the lower has a rifle stock on it.
In short, a pistol can become a rifle, then go back to a pistol, but it cannot have the pistol upper installed on the lower while the lower has a rifle stock installed on it.
Edit: A pistol cannot have a vertical foregrip, but an angled foregrip is legal.
And yes, short barreled rifles and pistols chambered in .556 are loud. One good thing to add to such a weapon to help mitigate the sound is a linear compensator. It pushes all the sound out the front instead of throwing it out the sides via the cuts in a standard flash hider or recoil compensator
Kaw Valley makes the linear compensator all other are compared to.
https://www.kawvalleyprecision.com/KVP- ... -s/100.htm
I have one of these on a Rock River Arms 9mm AR "pistol". And it really does ease the sould for the shooter and those directly to either side,
Raymond