While doing research for an article on suppressors, I bumped into this over at Advanced Armaments Corp’s website. They have a promotion where they will give you a $200 credit (the price of a tax stamp since 1934 on Title II/Class III NFA items), thus making the fee, free.
Its set to run through the end of the month.
Speaking of Suppressors, Silencerco has this on how they work:
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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Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster.
Ever seen the Star Wars series where everyone who isn’t rocking a glowing sword or handgun of some sort is sporting a compact laser spitting blaster weapon? Well the closest thing to that long long ago and far far away technology that we have today is a super short upper and Oregon’s Noveske Rifle Works is the place to get them.
What is a super short upper?
Well kids, you see the National Firearms Act of 1934 prohibited many of the really fun things that are out there. This included suppressors, machineguns, pen guns, can guns, and oh yeah, short barreled rifles and shotguns (SBR/SBS). This meant that if you had a rifle with a barrel shorter than 16-inches, you had to register it with Uncle Sam and pay a one-time $200 tax so that the Man knew who had it and where it was.
Since then, new privately owned machineguns were banned after 1986 but SBRs, SBSs, and suppressors are still legal, although they still have the antiquated $200 tax on them. Of course back in 1934 that sum of money was about $3500 in today’s scratch, so let’s just be thankful the ATF hasn’t adjusted that cost for inflation (and please don’t get the bright idea to point that out to anybody!). These so-called NFA or “Class III” items (after the level of FFL dealer that can trade in them) have grown massively in popularity over the past decade.
This can be said especially about super-short barreled AR uppers, of which the Grants Pass, Oregon firm of Noveske is one of the industry leaders….
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