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Originally Posted by spectrrr
damnit....
I was all excited today. Got most of the parts needed for my custom AR upper in today. Enough to start building it at least.
11" Troy alpha rail
14.5" Daniel Defense barrel
YHM 5C2 Comp/hider to pin to the barrel and make it legal.
Low profile Wilson Combat adjustable gas block.
Some random stripped upper that Midway has in stock, etc.
No sign of a BCG yet (it's coming... eventually  ), and I still havn't found an in stock barrel nut to buy, but that wasn't going to stop me from playing with the parts 
so I picked up the barrel, screwed on the comp, and grabbed a tape measure to check the length to the chamber.
"hmm.... that can't be right... I'm a couple inches short..."
*measure barrel*
"twelve inches???"
*check invoice*
"14.5" M4 Carbine 1:7"
*check label on shipping tube*
"5.56, 1:7, 12.5" M4 Carbine"
Son of a ***** 
Got it from Brownells, so I know they'll fix it... but erm... you know, there's the slight issue of "WHEN" in this century they might get more stock in! |
Is it actually legal to just add a long flash hider to a short barrel? Regs I read a while back said this is a no-no, even welded on is not OK.....I was under the impression rifles had to have over 16.00" of rifled barrel to be legal for civilians (non class 3). Does someone have legit info to confirm otherwise? I would love to get a 14.5.....