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Transgender-theme AK-47, because 2nd Amendment! (slrpnk.net)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

They're a bitch to clean.

No they're not. They tear down easily without tools. I can't think of a part that can't be cleaned easily. Maybe the gas tube?

If it's locked up, you can't knock on the charging handle

There's a button called a forward assist for that specific purpose.

Aluminum gas blocks...

Milspec blocks are not aluminum, he's complaining about after-market, non-standard mods.

The extractor pin will often shatter in place,

I've seen this on cheap BCGs. It's annoying, but it's easily fixable and won't render the gun useless. You'll just have to manually clear it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

While you did answer the question, it is better to clear a jam by pulling back on the charging handle, possibly while also mortoring the buttstock. Hitting the forward assist is just as likely to make the jam worse. (This also counts for AKs, this isn't an AR only thing)

Some newer ARs don't come with forward assists anymore, sometimes to prevent people from making jams worse, but usually cause they're for sport and if your rifle malfunctions in a way that needs a forward assist, you can just take the L and get off the range to solve the issue.

Regardless, if you hit the forward assist, just make sure you're in a position that this might be the last round you can fire without doing some maintenance.

But you are correct, ARs are as popular as they are for a reason. They're reliable, easy to get parts for, and ammo (while expensive) is just about everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the context. I was never interested in owning an AR myself, not to mention that it seems to me like they're way overpriced due to a lot of them being glam guns. He did it for a living for years, so I took him at his word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No problem. As an owner of a fully-custom glam gun, I recommend building a shitty one first to learn what breaks and what doesn't.