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Industry pro predicts trouble for guns no matter who wins election http://www.guns.com/2016/10/17/industry-pro-predicts-trouble-for-guns-no-matter-who-wins-election/ 10/17/16 | Opinion by Eve Flanigan On the opening night of recent gun writers’ conference in Orlando, Jason Wilson, founder and CEO of Wyoming-based Lucid Optics, made a statement that would be brought up in quiet, side discussions for the duration of the event. “No matter who wins, it will cost the industry,” said Wilson, whose once-small business now has distributors in 14 countries. He might be onto something. Wilson isn’t shy about saying that some components of his products are made overseas. Processes like lens coating, he says, aren’t even available in the States. And, according to Wilson, China is the only place in the world making batteries. Wilson is emphatic that many companies claim to sell US-made goods, but closer examination can prove that many aren’t being completely truthful. Maybe it’s because 2016 was the year I became friends with a Chinese American family that has several successful gun-related ventures, or maybe it’s because I’ve started to look and think closely at some of my own favorite gear and realize quite a lot of it is foreign-made, in many cases because I choose not to spend more than necessary on a piece of kit. Maybe it’s having looked at a clothing designers’ blog and discovered many complaints about how hard it is to begin a business relationship with a domestic manufacturer, while Vietnamese and Chinese vendors are offering concierge-like services to even small-volume startups. Whatever the reason, I’ll admit that I’ve come to see the hypocrisy in my own and others’ recommendations to buy American. If we were really that interested in acting on our purchasing ideals, after all, a number of big-name tactical goods suppliers might not even exist. Instead, they’re our basket of adorables. Wilson’s statement isn’t so much surprising as it is sobering, assuming he’s right. Gun owners already expect a massive fight to prevent new forms of legislative control. Many are resigned to rebellion or lawlessness if restriction creep by legislation or abuse of executive orders continues. In conversation, those conditions are usually followed by the phrase “if Clinton is elected.” But is a Trump election really that much rosier? Wilson has run some numbers based on Trump’s promised import tariffs. As I understand it, he expects to lose nearly half a million per year under Trump. Yes, it may bring some aspects of Lucid production to Wyoming from overseas, but at a cost. Trump has clearly promised import tariffs, but has been less vocal on other business-affecting issues like the minimum wage floor, and other regulations on labor and environment. I used to enthusiastically carry my e-waste to the annual recycling event until seeing a video of Chinese children, many with scars from work-related burns, walking through an acid sea of discarded electronics to harvest nickel. While I still feel more responsible for my own corner of the world than theirs, the image is a reminder that there is no zero-sum equation. Are gun owners ready to pay more, possibly a lot more, for the same products that don’t seem so cheap, even now? Will Second Amendment supporters be so enthusiastic about not allowing the takeover of a right by a government that can’t possibly guarantee personal safety, in a world where national security must be won, repeatedly, by battles large and small? I sure hope so.

Try this: https://www.slickguns.com/search/apachesolr_search/651984106440?upc_only=1

Pics of these parts are gonna help - then we can really see what we're working with. Especially that DPMS rifle length buffer. Parts being what they are, you'll be better off in the long run with an Aero upper, than a PSA lower. There's some proprietary schit going on with PSAs 308AR...

^^^ That description is the ticket.

She's cheatin' on me!!!

Right on, HotRod. Glad she's running.

I was glad to see this news this morning. It means the law worked. This time, anyway. Bushmaster was sued, and payed, because they made the rifle that the DC Sniper used. Bull's Eye Shooter Supply in Tacoma, WA paid out for that one, too - because they sold the firearm used. Bull's Eye had more issues than that, though... Not long after those settlements, the law referenced in that article was passed...

That's gonna take awhile. AWHILE!!!... Oh, hell yes!

http://www.ontargetshooting.com/ Don't know if that will work on your smartphone, but that's the program most commonly used.

That thing came out great!

If it was chambered hard, it is now!...

Ladies, and Gentlemen, I bring you Project Titan.

I welcome you with opens arms, my brother!!! And, pants-down hugs!!!

I'd run the jam nut and be done.

That's the one thing I can think of that will make a No Go gauge close on a good barrel... only reason I asked...

Same here. Mine is fukkin' psycho. For real.

Benchmark and H335 should do very well with the light projos. Some IMR 3031 as well.

I think you're on to something there. Same bullet (120, lighter charge by two full grains will lock it back. In theory, with a charge two full grains higher, you should be producing quite a bit more power, speed, and gas pressure. The rifle should cycle even harder, have more felt recoil, and lock-back on last round should be easy like that. But, it's not. Because that extra two full grains of pressure isn't getting there, through a small gas port that won't allow it. Instead, the bullet is gone from the barrel, and pressures drop. Pull the gas block and measure that gas port. I don't know schit about .260 Rem gas port sizes, but I'm curious to see what it is anyway.

For that Aero, the trigger and hammer pins will work, safety will work, buffer retainer will work, mag catch will work, detents and springs will work, forward assist will work.

Comes in handy with the Hookers and Blow!...

I had this thing done when he was going nuts about his, and arguing parts all over the place. After seeing his pics, it wasn't even impressive. He was telling me that mine wasn't even light, but I built it to beat the schit out of someone with, as a design goal. You could probably break his by hitting a Girl Scout with it...

Here's the detailed pics of the thing. Nothing special but parts selection, with lots of standard parts. Only things I relaly payed attention to were the barrel, rail, and buttstock. Everything else it pretty normal. One day, I'll get into really cutting it down, without sacrificing strength - I want to keep it tough enough to beat on.

Just re-weighed it all at 3.640lbs for the upper and 1.742lbs for the lower.

Yes, finished out at 5.39lbs total. Now, I told you that was a temporary buttstock system, in that pic, just so I could shoot it. The 5.2lbs was before adding the PRI Combat Latch and BAD-ASS ambi safety. After re-weighing, it's at 5.39lbs right now... Complete parts list: Upper: XProducts forged upper receiver Lower: Aero Precision forged lower receiver BAD-ASS ambi safety, long fat and short fat levers. DSG Arms enhanced magazine catch. ALG ACT trigger Battle Arms Development Sabertube / BAD-LBS buttstock system MagPul MOE K grip and poly trigger guard Standard charging handle with PRI Combat Latch Ares Armor Reduced Friction BCG complete ALG EMR-V1 10" rail with it's own barrel nut Faxon 16" pencil barrel with Faxon lightweight gasblock. Spike's Shorty DynaComp Fortis T1 mount Primary Arms mini red dot Standard parts: regular carbine buffer, buffer spring, magazine release pivot and takedown pins, ejection port door, midlength gastube and forward assist. Armalite springs throughout the lower. Don't think I forgot anything... THIS is what weighs 5.39lbs, total: