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Crafting your own Black Rifle

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As I mentioned back in April, picked up 10 stripped Anderson lowers from a local FFL and have been working on a couple of builds.

These two are now loaded with a Palmetto State Armory AR15 Fire Control Group (#7265); with Classic Lower Build Kit (#445), M4 Stock, A2 Pistol grip, and Mil-Spec diameter 6-position buffer tube assembly and ambi single point sling attachments..

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Going to marry them up to a PSA Freedom Upper (#482726) with 16″ 416R stainless 5.56 NATO barrel with a 1 in 7″ twist and mid-length gas system (.750 diameter at the gas block), classic handguards; full-auto profile BCG (#35099) and a 7075 T6 Forged Mil-Spec Charging Handle (#24080).

Here is a great AR15 build video to help you get your own lowers ready:

So, just how many AR-15s are there out there right now? This estimate puts it at some 6 million which I think is conservative.

Anyway, 8 more builds to go.

Thinking a .300BLK and a .22LR at least as these are mulit-cal lowers.

My $600 Six Pound AR-15 Build

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Ever since Eugene Stoner’s innovative AR designs of the 1960s, the species has been manufactured using at least some plastic parts. Today those legacy plastics have given way to revolutionary carbon fiber polymers that have all the strength of forged steel with the benefits of cost and weight. One of the latest companies to take advantage of this material is New Frontier Armory in Las Vegas, Nevada who has introduced a new polymer AR lower: the LW-15. I decided to take a low cost approach to building my own AR from one of these lowers while going light and low cost.

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