Hell, clean it up and rattle can it and he could probably flip it for a tidy profit to someone that doesn't know any better right now.Originally Posted by brickboy240
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Hell, clean it up and rattle can it and he could probably flip it for a tidy profit to someone that doesn't know any better right now.
Ok, I've got an El Camino full of rampage here, so what's the plan?If you can't win a gun fight against a lightly-trained individual during broad daylight with 88 rounds of 30-06, I'm not sure you'd be able to do it with... any other firearm.
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Complaints with the gun at this point:
Commercial buffer tube and a stock that is loose/rattles on the tube.
No "M4" feedramp cuts.
1x9 twist.
No "F" marked front sight base.
Carrier key screws are well staked. Stock castle nut is not but the stock is straight and the nut's tight. Headspace is fine and the extractor has good cat claws on the edges. Gas rings appear fine and are tight in the carrier.
Were I to take this rifle seriously, I would buy an LMT basic or BCM blem barreled upper to replace the factory part. I would also stick on a milspec tube and BCM M4 stock. I would then sell the DPMS upper for something like $200. Heck, I might do this stuff anyway.
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Last edited by Tokarev; 06-20-14 at 13:04.
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Honestly, unless you don't have anything better (which I would doubt), is it worth sinking a lot of money into? It's a soda can blaster and really should be treated as such.
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No, not really. If the gun shoots and functions fine as-is, I probably won't do a thing to it other than add an M203/side mounted front sling swivel.
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Last edited by Tokarev; 06-20-14 at 13:25.
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
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Better to just hit it with some desert tan out of a rattle can and sell it as a Mosul rifle.
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Actually no, the WASRs were originally imported in usual configuration (single stack magwell etc), brought to 922R compliance, and then sent overseas on a temporary export. A WASR, once converted, doesn't meet standard importation requirements, exactly like DPMS ARs. Lots of pictures of Ugandans with black American pistol grips etc, parts that one generally doesn't see outside of the US.
Interesting part about the WASRs is that some have signs of being artificially distressed prior to being sent overseas (there are some plausible reasons for this but it's all speculation).
Last edited by Dave_M; 06-20-14 at 15:52.
Dave Merrill
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Isn't the issue with importability dependent on the number of US-made parts on the gun?
I would think that since the DPMS is all US-made, then it could be imported even with all the naughty bits.
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I completely missed the part that we were talking about WASR 10s that came to the US then went to the Middle East and then came back again.
I just have to wonder why anyone in Uganda would pay anything for a WASR 10 with all the genuine AKs floating around that part of the world for half the price.
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كافر
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The Ugandans didn't pay for them. They were merely contractors being employed by a US firm. One reason you'd buy WASRs and bring them over is quality control (yeah, I know that sounds funny when we're talking WASRs). You know it's new production and all parts are going to be [relatively] in-spec and functional. The amount of time and effort required to go over the details of an unknown quantity Kalashnikov multiplied by XYZ can be huge.
Furthermore there's a possibility that you'd be supplying the enemy with cash for goods with in-country procurement (there have been legal inquiries into exactly that, especially before temporary export rules were ironed out).
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That actually makes quite a bit of sense.
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
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