‘80% receivers’ go mainstream

Interestingly, the cost of these receivers is not all that much cheaper than many complete (but “stripped”–lacking fire control parts, pins, trigger group, etc.) AR-15 lower receivers available today (and prior to the Sandy Hook Elementary atrocity, one could probably have found them cheaper than today’s 80 percent complete version). Moreover, Brownells is also selling the jigs that make it easy to correctly perform the last 20 percent of the machining, but at another $90, buying the jigs would mean that the cost of this receiver has gone well over what one would have to spend for a complete stripped lower receiver.

That would indicate that anyone buying the jigs is planning to build several “off-the-books” guns (which he can never legally sell), or, alternatively, finds the anonymity to be worth paying a premium. For the forcible citizen disarmament jihadists, neither of those possibilities can be very comforting. And anything that makes them uncomfortable is a good thing for Americans.

FK – Let’s hope so. We’re gonna need all we can get.