In an effort to dial back my insane gun buying addiction, I am trying to limit myself to one gun a month. I was actually doing pretty well this month until I made he mistake of walking into a local shop and looking at their suppressor display case. Sitting in it was a lonely stripped Anderson (Poverty Pony! Thrift Thoroughbred! Frugal Filly!) lower that had been SBR’d.
Hmmm….
I have a JAKL ‘pistol’ that really needs a genuine stock and not some sort of ‘wrist brace’ aberration. Since the JAKL uses bog-standard AR lowers (with the exception of a slightly modified bolt release) I can finish the lower, put a Midwest Industries folding AR-180 stock, and drop the JAKL pistol upper on it and make myself a nice compact .223.
Or I can just build up the lower with an AR parts kit, and go find ‘pistol’ AR upper.
So, technically, this counts as my gun for March…which may not have been a great purchase because there is a gun on Gunbroker I’m probably going to buy that is a rare version of something I’ve been looking for for a couple years now. Im not gonna spoil the ending, but I’ll tell you about it when the auction is over.
Commander:
Perhaps smaller steps might be a good start –
Gun-A-Week?
Worth a thought…
Well given that last year he went on Gunbroker and ended up with 165 stripped AR lowers over three days (note how he’s now making room in the basement), a Gun-A-Day may be a step down from the average.
https://www.commanderzero.com/?p=11170
Why do you think that was Gunbroker?
I’m lazy and did not even read the link I posted.
Once the self flagellation is done take a deeeeep breath…………………and try not to do it again…………………LOL. In all seriousness (is that a word?) get whatever you can afford. Life is short.
“There is a gun on Gunbroker I’m probably going to buy that is a rare version of something I’ve been looking for for a couple years now.”
My guess is something belt feed. You need two or three, just in case.
Or maybe a Mini Uzi that you can SBR if it’s not been done that way.
Since the lower is just a ‘part’ and not the complete firearm, I wouldn’t count it towards your One-A-Month program. I know the lower is the firearm, but it’s just a ‘part’ right?
When Califrutopia passed the one-gun-a-month law, I took them up on it for several years.
I don’t think that’s the way they meant for it to be understood.
F*** them.
I really tried to do the same when Virginia passed the same law, but at the time I just couldn’t afford one a month.
I felt so opressed.
Goatroper
Assuming you didn’t begin the gun-a-month gig at birth, you likely have a nice collection of gat-barren months you need to remedy. We can also implement a transfer system in which the firearm-deprived credit your account with unused months. As a trial offer, I hereby gift you with February 1973. Lots more where that came from! Please be a good chap and post a pic of the item you will own on my behalf. I am partial to genuine wood and steel machinery in popular military calibres, and prefer Ballistol as the main cleaning/lubricating substance.
One gun a month goes just behind I promise I’ll pull it out and way way ahead of the checks in the mail……
Doesn’t the SBR lower have the original owner’s name engraved on it? Was wondering if they then would have any resale value.
Real question here is if it’s being sold as an SBR at this point (thus requiring a Form 4 NFA transfer and the usual delay in transfer) or if it’s being sold as just a lower (albeit one that has previously been assembled as a rifle and thus can’t be used to build a pistol now)?
And if it’s a Title I lower (rather than a Title II SBR lower), has it been officially removed from the NFA Registry? BATFE likes people to notify them if an SBR is being rendered a non-SBR permanently, so that they can remove it from the Registry, but it’s not required to do so.
SBRs (and SBSs) are handled differently to machineguns under the NFA: they’re only SBRs (or SBSs) when they’re assembled in an SBR/SBS configuration. Assembled as an ordinary Title I rifle (16+ inch rifled barrel if there’s a stock attached, over 26 inches overall, etc, in the case of an SBR) they are not considered an SBR at that moment for such purposes as taking them across state lines (no Form 20 needed for example) or for selling them but the purchaser would have to do their own Form 1 (and engrave their information) in order to legally assemble in an SBR configuration.
This is in sharp contrast to the ‘Once a machinegun, always a machinegun’ rule BATFE concocted.
The resale value of a former SBR lower receiver is no better than the resale value of a non-SBR lower from that manufacturer. Maybe less, as it will have someone else’s information engraved on it.
It’s much easier to just do a Form 1 (they’re being processed/approved in a few days now if one does the eForm 1 via BATFE’s website) on a ‘virgin’ lower and have the required info engraved locally or by one of the online services. I’ve sent lowers to Tar Heel State Firearms for SBR engraving and been very pleased with the results. Quick turn-around, engraved to the required depth (many jewelers, trophy shops, etc, don’t have gear capable of engraving deeply enough), think with shipping it was under $40?
There was a basketball coach whose teams used to routinely blow-out opponents by 50+ points, but he refused to allow his team to let up. His stated philosophy was: “If we had more points, we’d be further ahead”.
This should apply to gun purchases.
The PSA JAKL is now available .308.
https://youtu.be/RXiqE9y7phU?si=BBhRpHVdmXgBS2Sn
With it just being you, I always wondered what are you plans after the collapse? Man, you got a LOT of Shit. With as many guns and accessories as you have, that’s too many to Bugout and transport without a semi and a convoy. So a home fortress with lots of family/friends you can trust would be needed. That kinda hardware would make you a real big target and no one can keep secrets about your level of stuff since you do buy it at places and take it out to shoot and after folks seeing you shooting that much, they will talk about “that guy” with all the different weapons.Maybe start your own PMC or Are you gonna open up CZ’s Gun Shop and Bordello? Not trying to pry but to me you were all set years ago.
“I was actually doing pretty well this month” – Posted on the seventh.
Yeah, that was the part I caught……………
I’ll buy what I want but I want less as time goes on.
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2025/03/10/the-gun-addict-song/