Originally Posted by
nickdrak
Yes. My department purchased (25) RRA 16" middy carbines for our gang unit directly from RRA. Out of the (25) rifles delivered, (10) of them were non-functional due to a bad batch of FCG's.
Out of ALL of the major commercial market AR manufacturers, I have personally seen more issues relating directly to poor QC with RRA than any other manufacturer. Un-staked/un-secured bolt carrier keys that were rattle-trap loose straight out of the box. Their liberal use of red lock-tite on just about every part on the AR platform you can think of that should not have it applied to it. Their Dremel-tool "extended feed-ramp" jobs that look like they were done by a chimp. (Seriously, WTF is the purpose of them Dremel-ing feed-ramps into a standard rifle upper receiver???) I recently came across one of the PD rifles we bought that had a Vortex FH that would not come off after being soaked in Kroil for two days, heated up with a torch, and had 80ft/lbs of torque applied to it to try to remove it.
That's about all that I have personally seen....
ETA: I have no personal negative experience relating to LWRCi products.