LE TRADE IN 6945 Uppers.

[DoubleW]

I have one if these 6945 cut down LE trade uppers I bought secondhand. It has very minmal wear which is nice, however mine does not cycle xm193, pmc xtac, m855 reliably. I have tried buffers H, HH and H3 to no avail. It will run hotloaded Fiocchi and Norma ammo.Sadly I am thinking that this may be a gasport issue. Hopefully I can get it figured out because its a neat piece of Colt

Thanks for replying! That almost certainly verifies that when these were cut down, they did not open up the gas port. This would likely make an excellent suppressor host, but other than that or having the port opened I wouldn’t trust these.

[signal4l]

Seems a little pricey, did they change gas port size?

LE armorer cut downs are one of my least favorite things.

That made me chuckle. One of our area PDs issued HK 94 rifles until the early-mid 2000s. The departmental gun guru decided that MP5s were way cooler. He used a hacksaw to cut the barrels. No re crown. No effort to cut the barrels flush. Just chopped em and stuck them back in the squads

This offended one of the swat cops who called the ATF and reported the PD for having un registered SBRs

They did the appropriate paperwork and received a stern talking to from ATF.

Im not sure if the barrels ever got fixed.

I agree....never buy an armorer cut down

[SteyrAUG]

That made me chuckle. One of our area PDs issued HK 94 rifles until the early-mid 2000s. The departmental gun guru decided that MP5s were way cooler. He used a hacksaw to cut the barrels. No re crown. No effort to cut the barrels flush. Just chopped em and stuck them back in the squads

This offended one of the swat cops who called the ATF and reported the PD for having un registered SBRs

They did the appropriate paperwork and received a stern talking to from ATF.

Im not sure if the barrels ever got fixed.

I agree....never buy an armorer cut down

The sad part is those 94s were probably worth $2k each (assuming rack wear typical of LE guns) and they could have just sold them and bought factory MP5s direct from HK for about half as much.

[1168]

These are allegedly cut down by EA, which would have the appropriate tools for the job. I would not at all be surprised if they were cut down to be fulltime silencer hosts.

[kirkland]

That made me chuckle. One of our area PDs issued HK 94 rifles until the early-mid 2000s. The departmental gun guru decided that MP5s were way cooler. He used a hacksaw to cut the barrels. No re crown. No effort to cut the barrels flush. Just chopped em and stuck them back in the squads

This offended one of the swat cops who called the ATF and reported the PD for having un registered SBRs

They did the appropriate paperwork and received a stern talking to from ATF.

Im not sure if the barrels ever got fixed.

I agree....never buy an armorer cut down

That's horrible, what a butcher.