Gun Thread

['73 H1 Triple]

Upgrade
The century arms receiver needs a little bit of work so I decided to upgrade to a much higher quality reciever, an Imbel which is forged. Purchased one on GB last night.



I also picked up some goodies for the sporter to bring that back to it's former glory.

wooden stock, US made pistol grip, US made gas piston, wooden forearms
plus US made mag floor plates. ( need 7 US made parts due to 922r )

Originally Posted by '73 H1 Triple

I'll start this build in about a month 7.62 x 51 NATO / .308 WIN caliber


British L1A1 parts kit I purchased back in the mid 90 for $99 ( they're going for $500 - $700+ right now) plus a receiver I purchased.

Here's what they look like assembled


I also have a "sporterized" L1A1 purchased around the same time as the kit which I found out I can legally convert back to original specs by replacing 7 of 17 parts wityh US made parts.



The sporter has a thumbhole stock plus the flash hider cut off ( "angry beavers" according to the FALfiles forum)

[RACER X]

Originally Posted by Twobanger

The 9c is a good deal. How many magazines does it come with?

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2 mags, case,receipts backstraps, only 100rds pliinking, 55 rds def ammo, mtac holster getting firm on $450

I wish it had a thumb safety is all....



Why one cop carries 145 rounds of ammo on the jobBefore the call that changed Sergeant Timothy Gramins’ life forever, he typically carried 47 rounds of handgun ammunition on his person while on dutyinShare5Before the call that changed Sergeant Timothy Gramins’ life forever, he typically carried 47 rounds of handgun ammunition on his person while on duty.Today, he carries 145, “every day, without fail.”He detailed the gunfight that caused the difference in a gripping presentation at the annual conference of the Assn. of SWAT Personnel-Wisconsin.Expert AnalysisLessons learned from facing an “invincible” assailantAt the core of his desperate firefight was a murderous attacker who simply would not go down, even though he was shot 14 times with .45-cal. ammunition — six of those hits in supposedly fatal locations.The most threatening encounter in Gramins’ nearly two-decade career with the Skokie (Ill.) PD north of Chicago came on a lazy August afternoon prior to his promotion to sergeant, on his first day back from a family vacation. He was about to take a quick break from his patrol circuit to buy a Star Wars game at a shopping center for his son’s eighth birthday.An alert flashed out that a male black driving a two-door white car had robbed a bank at gunpoint in another suburb 11 miles north and had fled in an unknown direction. Gramins was only six blocks from a major expressway that was the most logical escape route into the city.Unknown at the time, the suspect, a 37-year-old alleged Gangster Disciple, had vowed that he would kill a police officer if he got stopped.“I’ve got a horseshoe up my ass when it comes to catching suspects,” Gramins laughs. He radioed that he was joining other officers on the busy expressway lanes to scout traffic.He was scarcely up to highway speed when he spotted a lone male black driver in a white Pontiac Bonneville and pulled alongside him. “He gave me ‘the Look,’ that oh-crap-there’s-the-police look, and I knew he was the guy,” Gramins said.Gramins dropped behind him. Then in a sudden, last-minute move the suspect accelerated sharply and swerved across three lanes of traffic to roar up an exit ramp. “I’ve got one running!” Gramins radioed.The next thing he knew, bullets were flying. “That was four years ago,” Gramins said. “Yet it could be ten seconds ago.”With Gramins following close behind, siren blaring and lights flashing, the Bonneville zigzagged through traffic and around corners into a quite pocket of single-family homes a few blocks from the exit. Then a few yards from where a 10-year-old boy was skateboarding on a driveway, the suspect abruptly squealed to a stop.“He bailed out and ran headlong at me with a 9 mm Smith in his hand while I was still in my car,” Gramins said.The gunman sank four rounds into the Crown Vic’s hood while Gramins was drawing his .45-cal. Glock 21.“I didn’t have time to think of backing up or even ramming him,” Gramins said. “I see the gun and I engage.”Gramins fired back through his windshield, sending a total of 13 rounds tearing through just three holes.A master firearms instructor and a sniper on his department’s Tactical Intervention Unit, “I was confident at least some of them were hitting him, but he wasn’t even close to slowing down,” Gramins said.The gunman shot his pistol dry trying to hit Gramins with rounds through his driver-side window, but except for spraying the officer’s face with glass, he narrowly missed and headed back to his car.Gramins, also empty, escaped his squad — “a coffin,” he calls it — and reloaded on his run to cover behind the passenger-side rear of the Bonneville.Now the robber, a lanky six-footer, was back in the fight with a .380 Bersa pistol he’d grabbed off his front seat. Rounds flew between the two as the gunman dashed toward the squad car.Again, Gamins shot dry and reloaded.“I thought I was hitting him, but with shots going through his clothing it was hard to tell for sure. This much was certain: he kept moving and kept shooting, trying his damnedest to kill me.”In this free-for-all, the assailant had, in fact, been struck 14 times. Any one of six of these wounds — in the heart, right lung, left lung, liver, diaphragm, and right kidney — could have produced fatal consequences…“in time,” Gramins emphasizes.But time for Gramins, like the stack of bullets in his third magazine, was fast running out.In his trunk was an AR-15; in an overhead rack inside the squad, a Remington 870.But reaching either was impractical. Gramins did manage to get himself to a grassy spot near a tree on the curb side of his vehicle where he could prone out for a solid shooting platform.The suspect was in the street on the other side of the car. “I could see him by looking under the chassis,” Gramins recalls. “I tried a couple of ricochet rounds that didn’t connect. Then I told myself, ‘Hey, I need to slow down and aim better.’ ”When the suspect bent down to peer under the car, Gramins carefully established a sight picture, and squeezed off three controlled bursts in rapid succession.Each round slammed into the suspect’s head — one through each side of his mouth and one through the top of his skull into his brain. At long last the would-be cop killer crumpled to the pavement.The whole shootout had lasted 56 seconds, Gramins said. The assailant had fired 21 rounds from his two handguns. Inexplicably — but fortunately — he had not attempted to employ an SKS semi-automatic rifle that was lying on his front seat ready to go.Gramins had discharged 33 rounds. Four remained in his magazine.Two houses and a parked Mercedes in the vicinity had been struck by bullets, but with no casualties. The young skateboarder had run inside yelling at his dad to call 911 as soon as the battle started and also escaped injury. Despite the fusillade of lead sent his way, Gramins’ only damage besides glass cuts was a wound to his left shin. His dominant emotion throughout his brush with death, he recalls, was “feeling very alone, with no one to help me but myself.”Remarkably, the gunman was still showing vital signs when EMS arrived. Sheer determination, it seemed, kept him going, for no evidence of drugs or alcohol was found in his system.He was transported to a trauma center where Gramins also was taken. They shared an ER bay with only a curtain between them as medical personnel fought unsuccessfully to save the robber’s life.At one point Gramins heard a doctor exclaim, “We may as well stop. Every bag of blood we give him ends up on the floor. This guy’s like Swiss cheese. Why’d that cop have to shoot him so many times!”Gramins thought, “He just tried to kill me! Where’s that part of it?”When Gramins was released from the hospital, “I walked out of there a different person,” he said.“Being in a shooting changes you. Killing someone changes you even more.” As a devout Catholic, some of his changes involved a deepening spirituality and philosophical reflections, he said without elaborating.At least one alteration was emphatically practical.Before the shooting, Gramins routinely carried 47 rounds of handgun ammo on his person, including two extra magazines for his Glock 21 and 10 rounds loaded in a backup gun attached to his vest, a 9 mm Glock 26.Now unfailingly he goes to work carrying 145 handgun rounds, all 9 mm. These include three extra 17-round magazines for his primary sidearm (currently a Glock 17), plus two 33-round mags tucked in his vest, as well as the backup gun. Besides all that, he’s got 90 rounds for the AR-15 that now rides in a rack up front.Paranoia?Gramins shook his head and said “Preparation"

fak! sorry my phone doesn't do paragraphs, lol

[RACER X]

Originally Posted by Twobanger

The 9c is a good deal. How many magazines does it come with?

dude is down to $400 today, incl a holster+ammo+ all the gun stuff

[Rangerscott]

Anyone seen the new RIA 9mm pistol? Mapp 9mm.

[RACER X]

Own an m&p 9c now, gun is minty fresh, never fired, built 12/12

Incl 100 rds plinking
Close to 100 rds def ammo
Brand new holster , receipt from last month $100
Factory box
2 mags

[Twobanger]

Cool. I have one 9c, three full size, a .40 police trade in, a 9 Shield and a .22. They're great guns. The one I use for competition has thousands through it without a single malfunction.

[RACER X]

ah, it's the one w the mag safety and no thumb safety, I can work around the m ag safety, but the frame doesn't have the cutouts for a safety which wife really wants, so it's for sale, lol

came w that comp tac minotaur that troy likes, lol

[Rangerscott]

Its bang bang time tomorrow.

[Rangerscott]

Damb Im pisssed. All I heard was how great quality adam arms is and I still cant fire my 5.45 upper. First bolt wouldnt even allow me to manually cycle rounds. It would just jam and I had to heman the charge handle to get the round to eject.

They send me a new bolt and I can finally manually cycle the rounds. Get a chance to shoot it after waiting 7 months to get it from midway and even more to find time to shoot and the damn thing jams after firing. Got two rounds off and both times the bolt is jammed. First shot I was a tad hard to get out but tye second casing was a bitch to get out.

Damb Im pisssed. All I heard was how great quality blah blah. I still cant fire my 5.45 upper. First bolt wouldnt even allow me to cycle rounds. It would just jam and I had to heman the charge handle to get the round to eject.

They send me a new bolt and I can finally manually cycle the rounds. Get a chance to shoot it after waiting 7 months to get it from midway and even more to find time to shoot and the damn thing jams after firing. Got two rounds off and both times the bolt is jammed. First shot I was a tad hard to get out but tye second casing was a bitch to get out.

[LeeNetworX]

I'll just leave this here.