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|September 24, 2010, 09:33 PM
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Lead jacketed OR solid copper round ball
Is it possible to procure or to home brew copper round balls, that are jacketed or plated or coated with lead.
How thick would the lead jacket have to be in order to allow proper swaging into the muzzle during loading?
How thick would the lead jacket have to be in order to allow proper swaging in the barrel in order to engage the grooves so that twist would be imparted?
*** hair in the brain
Could one drill two very small holes through centers in a copper ball, perpendicular centers ... that would provide for "tunnels" through the copper ball so that thin pins could be placed into those center holes to form a support structure that held the copper ball in the middle of a lead round ball die. So that when lead was poured into the mold, it would form a jacket around the copper ball. And if lead pins were used through the holes in the copper ball, then those pins would melt into the jacket.
Has this ever been done, can it be done simply?
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|September 24, 2010, 09:52 PM
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whats the freaky reason for it?
if you simply dip a copper pellet in lead, and then manage to swage it down to size, all your doing is making an objext like a chocolate covered peanut. apply any pressure to it, and it will seperate into base parts.
if you did the pin idea, it would have to be a lead pin to insert in an attempt to provide some substance to the chocolat/lead coating. still slightly better but..
in most instances you would not be able to load it correctly into your bp revolver to keep the chamber mouth from breaking the lead jacket into seperate pieces. in all honesty, the pieces would just jump out during recoil from your first discharge, and the first bullet you shoot will come out like shrapnel.
|September 25, 2010, 12:15 AM
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The object would be to derive some of the benefits one gets from a harder metal, like penetration and less expansion. I'm thinking defense loads, just curious really.
|September 25, 2010, 08:16 AM
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Wouldn't accuracy suffer as well? I don't know, but I'm thinking unless centered perfectly, it would. I would think you've now probably got an off-centered ball, inside a shell, that is going to come out of the barrel spinning, then going somewhat out of control. Wobbling, if you will, like putting a weight on a wheel, then spinning it.
|September 25, 2010, 09:23 AM
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Oh that's a BIG 10-4, the copper round ball will certainly have to be perfectly centered inside the lead coating, plating, or jacket.
|September 25, 2010, 12:42 PM
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Are you talking about using a muzzle loading rifle or carbine for defense? If you want better penetration than you'd get from a soft lead ball, then you need to go with sabot rounds.
Also, swaging a ball into a rifle muzzle is old school stuff. Use a patch and a sub-caliber round ball instead.
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|September 25, 2010, 12:53 PM
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An 1858 NMA. I want to avoid damaging the rifling, thus the lead jacket or coating and to preserve the feature of the soft lead that swages or molds itself tightly to the inside of the barrel when fired.
And all of this is just dream stuff. If it could be done, had been done ... I'd consider doing it, I'm just wondering about all this.
I'm happy with big round balls and their terrific expansion on game, etc ... but they don't wear armor or flak jackets.
|September 25, 2010, 01:38 PM
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Copper or brass ball slightly undersized and paper patched or a double thick fabric patch like I use under my lead balls. Me thinks it would be a lot easier and less problems down the road. Sabot was your best advice.
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|September 25, 2010, 02:12 PM
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Old Grump:
At this point I'm only wanting to do this with a pistol, but you are right on the mark for a rifle, and yes, of course, sabots are quite ... powerful.
Patching a copper ball with a kevlar patch might work quite nicely. But I don't have enough experience to understand how this might work out in a 1858 NMA.
|September 25, 2010, 03:10 PM
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Perhaps a more modern arm would be proper for your zombie apocalypse?
|September 25, 2010, 03:30 PM
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When I run out of cartridges, primers, propellant or lead, then I want to be able to turn to my own skills with a muzzle loader.
I live in the Cajun Triangle, and know more than a few people, people who work in and out of Texas who are terrified of the drug gangs, these are the people I am most concerned about at this time.
The drug gangs are being outfitted with old, surplus body armor that your tax dollars paid for.
The Mexican government gets "granted" surplus military equipment from the United States government and the corrupt elements, (almost all of the Mexican government officials are either corrupted or terrorized into submission), then SELL that to the Mexican drug gangs because they will pay top dollar.
We've run quite a few illegals out of our area and as a result our unemployment rate is dropping, and the drug gangs DO NOT like communities that enforce federal and state level ... LAW.
Have you seen the movie "Machete"? That's what is happening on the border at this time and it's just a matter of time before it spills over, oh wait ... it already has into Arizona.
|September 25, 2010, 03:32 PM
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Furthermore, Americans who taunt people like me who are seriously concerned about infiltration by Mexican drug gangs might not belong on this board, sir.
I have adequate weaponry, three fine National Guardsmen who live on my block, a group of Confederate militia men in this city and some decent police, not many but a few.
My "real" guns have always been and will always be a private matter.
|September 25, 2010, 04:20 PM
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Thats all well and good but at the end of the day your STILL defending yourself with a muzzle loading pistol against "hostiles" who have modern arms and body armour.
Dont really see what the point of the verbal tirade was since these Quentin Tarantino mexicans you describe will have much more bullets then you do. The whole muzzle loading scenario is moot.
You could spend time, effort and finances on tooling, machinery and special moulds, or spend that money on several thousand FMJ bullets, primers and powder.
And lighten up, If your paranoid about mexicans or other illegals and are convinced the best course of action is to defend yourself with a 1858 remington revolver, accept some questioning of your logic.
Finally on a helpful note. If its only for defense, why not load some FMJ bullets and problem solved? With all the kirst converter cylinders out there I imagine firing a FMJ round through a Cap n ball has been done. Might be something to look into, although your cylinder chambers may need to be bored out. Another option is having a conical bullet mould machined that will accept a copper core and have the lead cast around it, Im not sure what the legalities are on this since you could easily substitute a steel or tungsten core........... But a job like this could be easily done by any one of the custom bullet mould manufactures. You DO know conicals can be shot out of a Cap and Ball do you not?
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|September 25, 2010, 04:32 PM
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Cajun---you're listing your location as Louisiana... That's a fair stretch from the mexican border unless you're counting the Gulf of Mexico. Are they paddling in with kayaks now?
Seriously folks, this smells an awful lot like a teenager that really doesn't know what he's talking about. I could be wrong, but not a single thing on the OP's question or follow-ups even seem rational or logical. There's my 2-cents.
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|September 25, 2010, 05:52 PM
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If I started purchasing 1000's of Jacketed boolits I'd have the local cops up in here so fast, they are extremely corrupt. 60 minutes corrupt, serial killer corrupt, drugs corrupt.
I don't need a Konverter. I think they would be fun but the primary reason I started studying muzzleloaders was to provide for myself when the other stuff runs out.
Your logic in purchasing 1000's of bullets would then give me more bullets than the Mexican drug gangs and they are incredibly expensive.
The copper ball with a patch on it is much cheaper, and I could make those myself from my scrap copper.
It's not moot.
One can shoot copper jackets through a cap and ball pistol but it destroys the barrel and accuracy suffers greatly.
The patched ball put forth by Old Grump is this thread's winner.
We just finished running a bunch of illegals out of here, some of them dealing drugs, absolutely connected with the Mexican drug gangs murdering and kidnapping children, women and men near the border AND in Arizona in that patch of National Forest Barry Soetoro gave them.
Loosen up and have fun with the topic Rangefinder, and think seriously about running out of Ammo.
You do understand during Katrina, and I was there for that, the cops took all our guns and ammo away from us, at gunpoint.
Grow up little fella.
|September 25, 2010, 05:54 PM
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Thank you Old Grump, you serve the membership of this board honorably.
|September 25, 2010, 06:32 PM
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Again in an attempt to be helpful and to save your molds. You ever heard of brazing? Well when you poor molten copper into an iron mold, it will most likely stick there...........permanently. Aluminum molds, I really hope you understand how that wont work eather. Perhaps you have a state of the art ball rolling mill in your garage that will roll out the rough spheres.......but for some reason I doubt it. If your going to sand cast them, the 1 in 100 that is suitable to shoot will be about as balanced in flight as a half empty beer can. Check out scrap copper prices while your at it to. And factor in the cost to melt it.
Then look at the cost of 2000 copper jacket bullets from midway.............you COULD paper patch a smaller caliber up, and avoid the copper contacting the rifling.
Best of luck, if nothing else the world needs more people with your kind of perseverance.
Edited to add: I GOT IT!!!!! Lost wax casting.......all you need is investment (plaster), the proper wax, a mold to shape the wax balls, the tools and equipment to build a casting "tree" (look it up), a furnace that reaches 2000 degrees and a tumbling polisher.
Shouldn't cost you more then a few grand
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Might be cool if you're trying to shoot around corners. Sounds like a knuckle ball to me....
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
|September 25, 2010, 07:01 PM
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Thank you for supporting my perseverance. I get all the free methane I can use, melting copper is no problem, it's free. I've got a lot of scrap copper already, no problem, (minus what the illegals stole).
I've already got the materials and energy. Casting the copper balls will be a challenge and a pleasure to research and accomplish as inexpensively as possible.
You don't understand the deep south and small towns where half the police force is either suspended, fired, under investigation by a Grand Jury, in prison, shot dead by their fellow officer, on the take, on drugs, etc..., etc...
Your attacks on my character, (childish name calling), mingled with your well wishing describes your character quite well.
Thanks for doing your best to trash my thread. And I will persevere.
I think you are jealous that I have a cool project that I can probably complete and all you got is vinegar.
2000 rounds from midway is cash money that others can choose to spend.
Your REQUIREMENT that this be expensive for me, (so you can say I will fail), and your REQUIREMENT that I cast the copper balls improperly, (so you can say I failed), describes your character plainly.
You ain't from around here are you?
|September 25, 2010, 07:03 PM
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Copper is only 78.75% as heavy as lead so a .457 roundball that weighs 143 grains in lead will only weigh 113 grains in copper. If you think lead round balls shed velocity rapidly and drift with the wind at long ranges, wait 'till you shoot copper round balls.
|September 25, 2010, 07:24 PM
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Thank you for adding that information, tastes good in my brainpan. And it's going to weigh less than that because it will be a tiny bit smaller than a comparably sized round ball. As Old Grump pointed out, the best design might be a patched ball to get some spin on the ball, (and to preserve the rifling).
I'm thinking I would get higher velocity with the lighter copper ball and that might compensate to some degree. The copper ball would come out with minimal or no deformation so it's aerodynamic qualities might be superior to the marred and partially swaged circumference of the lead ball.
Copper 50's with 150 grains behind it through my short Hawken with that big, thick heavy barrel might be quite a shooter.
But again, I'm looking for a solution for an 1858 Remmie, just because I like a real challenge.
Again, thank you for adding that information.
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Cajunpower, no attack on your character was intended. But the fact that you take every question as a personal attack speaks much clearer than any "childish name calling" you think I cooked up.
With each post a more difficult to believe statement is cooked up about the police force, manufacturing methods, illegal immigrants (those I can mostly believe) and not to mention the very heavy condescension perceived in most of your posts which belies your maturity, which mirrors many very young and very green kids I trained as apprentice machinists. I suppose in the end they, like you, have to attempt a difficult endeavor blindly several times before seeking outside assistance or accepting the slightest criticism of there methods, before some assistance makes there project much more attainable.
As far as jelousy of your cool project, I have none.
As for a swamp gas fired casting furnace................best of luck.
Last tidbit of advice is when you have that first copper melt going, add a small amount of zinc to aid in the cast-ability.
Edited to add: Hows that patch going to stay on after it hits the forcing cone?
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|September 25, 2010, 08:38 PM
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Undersized ball bearings, patched, in rifles.
Sell your copper as scrap, and buy real bullets, or lead.
Bill DeShivs, Master Cutler
|September 25, 2010, 09:31 PM
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After some research on how to make pure copper round balls, there isn't a lot out there that explains the process.
I think some nice STEEL patched balls, a bit undersized like you say might be a nice project to experiment with. Steel is good and steel ball bearings in every size in the world seem to be available.
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Author: The Evil Blonde Ginger (AKA T.M. Frazier)
Rating: How many stars is all of the stars? Because multiple that number by like 100 and you have a close idea of my rating for this book!!!
Synopsis: Welcome back to Frazier world mother fuckers, my how things have changed! Preppy makes his true return to the land of the living in this second instalment to his three part love story. Watch as he tries to come to grips with the tortures of his past and figure out a way to get his life back on track when it seems everyone else has moved on so drastically without him. Grace is dead, Chop is dead, the MC has been taken over by Bear, who seems different and weirdly happy with the crazy pink haired girl. King and Doe (who's real name is Ray BTW) are pumping out kids faster than you can say 'get some condoms'. To Preppy it seems like everybody has something going for them in this new life except for him. All he gets are fucked up memories and a few blissful flashes of a girl with dark hair and red fuck me lips.
Dre has come to Logan's Beach for closure, but she finds Preppy instead. At first she can't even believe he's really alive. All the time she spent pining for him and grieving over him. But she can't forget that he was the one to send her away in the first place. She may have begged him to keep her then but this time is different, this time she is the strong one.
Review: Another beautiful, intense, funny, and heartfelt novel from T.M. Frazier.
Unless you are new to my reviews, you probably already know that I drank this lady's Kool-Aid like over a year ago and have not stopped worshiping at her alter of alpha-males and fucked up love stories ever since. I can't help myself, when T.M. releases a book I gobble it up and begin begging her for seconds moments later.
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T.M.'s world is like no other in the way that all of her characters' stories intertwine so fully and yet stand alone so well. I love when we glimpse in on her other couples and sneak a peek at the tales yet to come but still those little glimpses never detract from the story at hand. I never get so caught up with what is happening with King and Doe or Bear and Thia to forget about the importance of the current stakes between Preppy and Dre.
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The view from connections ahead of the QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup, the opening event on Champions Day.
Simple Verse ridden by Oisin Murphy (left) beats Pretty Perfect at Doncaster.
Ralph Beckett is hopeful Simple Verse can give red-hot favourite Order Of St George a run for his money in the QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup.
The star filly added to her Classic success in the St Leger when landing the Fillies & Mares Stakes on the corresponding card 12 months ago and while connections considered letting her defend her crown, she instead steps up to two miles for the first time.
She returns to Ascot in great heart having bounced back from an otherwise disappointing campaign when landing last month's Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster and appears the biggest threat to Aidan O'Brien's Gold Cup hero.
Beckett said: "She had a good break after Royal Ascot and came back well at Doncaster.
"It was good effort at Doncaster. She got in trouble three (furlongs) down and got herself out and managed to get there in time. She showed all her old fire.
"She has to run against colts and geldings, but that doesn't really worry me. She gets the weight allowance, obviously.
"She stays so well that we're keen to go two miles, rather than drop back.
"For her, I always felt that this weekend was likely to be her target for the whole year."
Order Of St George is back in action less than a fortnight after his rounding off a one-two-three for Aidan O'Brien in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly, but his trainer is pleased with his condition.
"He seems to be in very good form. He came out of the Arc very well," O'Brien told At The Races.
The Dermot Weld-trained Forgotten Rules looked poised to dominate the staying division after claiming this Group Two prize in 2014, but it has not been plain sailing since.
While he was far from disgraced when losing his unbeaten record in last year's Gold Cup at Royal Ascot, he failed to fire in his next three starts, including when defending his Long Distance Cup crown a year ago.
There was more promise in his comeback run at the Curragh last month, but connections are praying for rain to give him the best possible chance of being competitive on Saturday.
Fiona Craig, breeding advisor to owners Moyglare Stud, said: "He is a racehorse, this is what he's bred to do and there is an angle that we should run him come what may, but you would worry if the ground was quick.
"Forgotten Rules is fine on good ground, but we know he prefers it softer and taking on horses like Order Of St George and Simple Verse on good ground would be pretty tough.
"He ran his heart out on good to firm in the Gold Cup last year, but he did remember that for a long time. It pretty much ruined the rest of the year for him.
"He's in good form. It would have been nice to see him go and win at the Curragh the other day, but he ran well."
Quest For More returns to the fray two weeks after a narrow triumph in the Prix du Cadran at Chantilly.
Trainer Roger Charlton said: "He's come out of his win in France in very good form and this will be his last race before we look at Dubai in the spring.
"It's going to be a tough race to win with the Arc third, Order Of St George, in there but life is life, you take on the best and this is what championship races should be.
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David Simcock's stable stalwart Sheikhzayedroad narrowly got the better of Quest For More to lift last month's Doncaster Cup and renews rivalries.
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Ryan Cleckner of rocketffl.com writes:
During an industry meeting with the ATF at SHOT Show 2015, I argued with the ATF over their absurd determination that shouldering the an AR pistol with a shoulder brace made it a short-barreled rifle.
Outside the meeting room I was told by two very senior members of the ATF that this was a determination based on a request they received from someone who had rolled a towel and inserted it into the arm cuff of the brace and then wrapped the thing in duct tape thereby making a shoulder stock.
This person apparently sent in pictures and asked the ATF if it was a brace. To this day I don't know if it was a foolish gun owner or an anti-gunner looking to make a stink.
I told them that I agreed with their determination of the sample that was submitted. That person clearly used parts (a pistol stabilizing brace, a towel, and duct tape) to make a shoulder stock.
However, their letter didn't mention any of that and it went so far to say as "use as a shoulder stock constitutes a 'redesign' of the device."
They insisted to me, in person, that merely shooting a pistol from the shoulder didn't make a rifle. They agreed with my arguments that the law focused on "designed and intended" and that subsequent use didn't redesign something.
They clarified that only if someone went through the effort to make something new or truly redesign the pistol brace was it an issue. I told them that they should have written that in their letter because as it stands, use = redesign.
I appreciate these relationships I have in the ATF – I have respect for both of these guys and, believe it or not, I understand the position they were in. I also think the letter was either worded poorly or the ATF wanted the result.
AR-15 pistols have long been a thorn in the side of ATF. After all, they are what started the whole problem with ammunition that was normally considered to be rifle ammunition being treated as handgun ammunition for purposes of banning armor-piercing handgun ammo (this is a story for another day).
I even asked them if I used my pistol to keep my papers from blowing off my desk, is it no longer a pistol? Clearly I've redesigned it through use into a paperweight.
To be fair, "redesign" is in the law. The NFA defines both rifle and shotgun to include any "weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder." Presumably this was to cover people sawing off a shotgun barrel at home. They would have then redesigned a shotgun into a Short Barreled Shotgun (SBS).
The industry was then stuck with this guidance from ATF:
The pistol stabilizing brace was neither 'designed' nor approved to be used as a shoulder stock, and therefore use as a shoulder stock constitutes a 'redesign' of the device because a possessor has changed the very function of the item. Any individual letters stating otherwise are contrary to the plain language of the NFA, misapply Federal law, and are hereby revoked.
Any person who intends to use a handgun stabilizing brace as a shoulder stock on a pistol (having a rifled barrel under 16 inches in length or a smooth bore firearm with a barrel under 18 inches in length) must first file an ATF Form 1 and pay the applicable tax because the resulting firearm will be subject to all provisions of the NFA.
In a March 21, 2017 letter from the ATF to the inventor of the pistol stabilizing brace, the ATF reversed its opinion. The ATF says they just clarified a misunderstanding, but the industry was stuck with what they put in black and white on paper, not what they may have meant.
The ATF finally acknowledged that their concern was about people who took actual steps to re-design something into something new. For example, the letter explains that if the Pistol Stabilizing Brace was mounted long enough down a buffer tube to prevent its use as an arm brace and instead was at a length that was only useful as a shoulder stock, then they have redesigned it into a shoulder stock.
The ATF also clearly acknowledged that merely shouldering a pistol stabilizing brace while firing it does NOT turn an AR-15 pistol into an SBR. They wrote, "…an NFA firearm has not necessarily been made when the device has not been reconfigured for use as a shoulder stock – even if the attached firearm happens to be fired from the shoulder."
This is all good news – although some of it is questionable. For example, what is this new mystery length that can only be suitable for use as a shoulder stock? Exactly where is the line drawn when determining what is a redesign?
Simply, "taking affirmative steps to configure [a pistol stabilizing brace] for use as a shoulder stock." The ATF adds that "making" an NFA firearm "includes the altering of an existing firearm such that, after alteration, the firearm meets one of the enumerated descriptions [of an NFA firearm]."
Therefore, if you install a pistol stabilizing brace on an AR-15 pistol as it was intended to be installed (on the buffer tube and up against, or at least close to, the rear of the receiver), then you have not "redesigned" anything. If you then fire that pistol from your shoulder, you haven't changed the original designer's intent and you haven't redesigned it. Be careful.
While this applies to all pistol braces, you must ensure that what you have is actually a pistol brace and the firearm you are dealing with is a pistol in the first place! Just because a manufacturer calls their product a pistol brace doesn't necessarily mean that the ATF agrees.
Also, you may not have a non-NFA pistol – for just one example, if the pistol has a smooth barrel and is designed and intended to shoot shotgun shells, it might be an Any Other Weapon (AOW).
This is good news. An SB-Tactical pistol stabilizing brace may be fired from the shoulder as long as other affirmative steps have not been taken to alter, modify, nor configure the pistol stabilizing brace as a shoulder stock.
Ryan Cleckner was a special operations sniper team leader in the US Army's 1st Ranger Bn (75th) with multiple combat deployments and a sniper instructor. He has a series of basic online instructional videos. His book, Long Range Shooting Handbook, is available at Amazon.
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33 Responses to What the ATF Told Me About the SB Tactical Pistol Brace: Ryan Cleckner
How about if I make some kind of shoulder pad with a cup to receive the brace that's sewn into my shirt. You're not modifying the brace at all but would that be considered constructive intent?
It's that kinda talk that got us into this trouble in the fist place. Just be quiet and smile..?
Go write them a letter and find out.
No, I'm kidding. Don't do that. This whole thing started from people writing letters.
Letters and suggestions only play the ATF game.
My last interaction with the ATF was my middle finger pointed directly at the ATF bureaucrat. I suggest the same.
Erase this organization from the federal government org chart and retire all these taxpayer-sucking bureaucrats. Fuck the ATF.
Yeah, I will not ever interact with any LE agency voluntarily on any level anyway. I have a fundamental lack of trust in them given they are trained in effective techniques in lying to citizens and yet it's an arrestable offense to do the same to them.
Couple of things.
First, the "problem" with pistol / rifle ammo being AP comes from Congress, first and foremost. They're the ones who wrote a law in compositional, not performance, terms and it continues to be a much larger problem.
Second, the take-away lesson here is that the ATF can and will reverse itself arbitrarily. This only adds to the "whole wiper=silencer … But only for this model" debacle.
Basically, the ATF seems to be acting like the kings of old – the law is what they say it is and want it to be, at any given time. Any manufacturer or business has to view this as a Damoclean sword over both existing and any new product they make.
"Just because a manufacturer calls their product a pistol brace doesn't necessarily mean that the ATF agrees."
That almost seems like a dig at the KAK Shockwave. Fortunately, KAK has a letter from the ATF, copies of which are included with the stabilizer, that acknowledge that the stabilizer is not considered a shoulder stock, but a brace. I use my stabilizer exactly how the manufacturer designed it to be used. It just so happens that some folks who've shot the pistol have also shouldered it, as they've attempted to get a stable hold and sight picture. It's not a redesign, and it's not a misuse of the product.
I have a KAK and a Sig brace. Both came with ATF letter. The KAK is so narrow at the end it's definitely not designed to be shouldered. Though both can be. They both would be designed completely different if they were intended to be shouldered. I will shoulder them both from here on. Or until a diffent ruling. I use the KAK with a KAK receiver extension and the Sig with an extension designed for the Sig brace.
Not a dig at them at all – if they have a letter then they are good to go. Of course, this doesn't mean that a letter from the ATF is necessary – it just helps.
So why would anyone believe the ATF this time?
^^^ This right here
"I appreciate these relationships I have in the ATF – I have respect for both of these guys and, believe it or not, I understand the position they were in."
Ya, a position they asked for. Your stupid neighbors who needed a job got stuck in the typical gov't OODA loop of "We cannot protect you unless and until you give up the right and the means to protect yourself; and We cannot protect you from unlawful actions of unlawful scofflaw people unless you strictly adhere to our regulation".
You know what I hear through all that b.s.? "Gov't Can't_________".
Good, I didn't think you could, so, if you notice, I didn't ask. Pack your sh_t and go home stumpy.
Every Day No Days Off site shows some combative pistol training where you'd have to be pretty good with your pause button to see if the 'operators' are firing from a double-elbows-out high ready sweep and scan position (essentially shoulder-firing their Glockety GLOCKS). Violation without redesign? Maybe. How much pressure did they apply to the back of the pistol grip with their shoulder. /sarc
What SHOULD be unlawful as it is WRONGFUL (not just WRONG) is for the idiots at the ATF (and those that empower them with regulations) to claim they are helping/protecting ANYONE with their b.s. push-me-pull-you interpretation of their b.s. rules.
I feel so much safer knowing my tax dollars go to support vital work like this. Not.
Why the ATF is not a convenience store is beyond me.
Again, shut them down.
I'm looking forward to the Gearhead Hook braces. They seem like the bees knees. One is adjustable the other is aluminum and attaches to the end of any pistol tube. I think the aluminum one comes out soon. I'm really liking the polymer one that comes with its own unique tube and is adjustable. Looks real nice and light weight. Unlike some of the other adjustable ones on the market that just seems heavy and bulky.
My thought on the issue of length is this: If you are a Wookiee and you have long arms, you're probably ok to have the brace set out a little further. If you don't have long arms, and you can't reach the pistol grip with the brace wrapped around your arms, I think you might have a problem. But it would be tough to prosecute. The real risk I think would be in taking pieces off. They would clearly have a case then.
As to the rolled up towel thing, it was either a pissed-off 'stamp-collector' angry that people weren't doing things 'his' way (meet lots of them on ARFCOM), or some douchebag gun-controller pissed that someone found a loophole in the most cherished piece of law the antis can point to. The NFA is the one legislative victory those guys have had, and they go incandescent when anyone tweaks it.
I don't think that any antis I know are even aware what NFA stands for, let alone cherish it. The just hate scary guns, and believe "it's for the children," therefore all guns should be banned, and their understanding of the whole issue stops there.
They talk about the length helping determine intent. Everyone is a different size with different forearm sizes. I'm not sure how they would determine it. It would have to be a case by case and not an exact length. Or it could be based on using the brace with the correct extension designed for that brace. Maybe? If your nose touches the charging handle my guess would be your good to go. But if the brace is at your elbow it's a no go.
These letters are only opinion letters!
They do not have any force of law until someone is arrested and a Federal Judge rules on the issue
While no one wants to be the test case, your local range officer has no obligation to stop you from shouldering and blasting away
You are not breaking any law
The ATF isn't going to charge anyone with a felony who shoulders a pistol brace… UNLESS the shooter ADMITS to trying to circumvent the NFA. Which means, if you intend to misuse a product… PLEASE don't brag about that on social media.
There is a pile of legal implications if you can redefine something with misuse. "Sir, that's not a full auto, short barrel, belt fed shotgun, that's clearly a paperweight. You can tell because I'm using it to keep my papers from blowing away. Remember when, your organization, literally said that using something is all you need to define it?! And then made that argument in court?!? IN FRONT OF A JUDGE?!?!?!"
So the current production brace is considered okay again. What about the original bulkier Sig branded ones before they split off into SB tactical?
If you read the new letter they use generic words and plurals like "stabilizing braces." So it seems the letters intent is for all current ATF okayed pistol braces. But I'm just an idiot with an IPad. So you're going to have to read it and make up your own mind.
The AR didn't start this 'rifle caliber pistol' mess. It's just the rifle everyone loves to hate and, I feel, due to its built in ability to add/subtract parts, makes it an easier scapegoat.
Don't forget about the Thompson Contender line also.
"AR-15 pistols have long been a thorn in the side of ATF. After all, they are what started the whole problem with ammunition that was normally considered to be rifle ammunition being treated as handgun ammunition for purposes of banning armor-piercing handgun ammo (this is a story for another day)."
When that day comes, can we get a legit velocity test out of different length barrels?
I truly wonder if AP rounds can actually P various forms of A when fired from pistol length barrels.
I don't think it was the AR-15 pistol that made a go at regulating ammo. It was originally against the 7.62×25 Tok round that started the "problem". They complained that they are "cop killer" bullets. The Obama administration allowed the AR-15 handgun builds(did not fight them), just to say that the ammo they used was a "cop killer" bullet and then they could ban or regulate the sale of any ammo that might be used in any commercial handgun.
The Tok round gets a lot of bad press, but it is the flatest shooting ammo for handguns. If we could have short barrelled carbines, that round would be perfect. a 10-12″ barrel or rifleing would be awesome. Add a suppressor and you would have a great round for smaller game or just plinking with something more powerful than a .22lr. If we could import the ammo again, the milsurp ammo could be much cheaper, even than 9mm.
I think someone in the ATF is afraid of these milsurp pistols.
The rifle you want is a ppsh-41. They make semi-auto clones.
"I appreciate these relationships I have in the ATF – I have respect for both of these guys and, believe it or not, I understand the position they were in. "
There's your biggest problem right there. ANYONE who willingly works for that scummy goverment agency deserves NO respect or understanding. F them all in the butt!
I have three relevant words for this discussion:
— arbitrary and capricious
The ATF's opinions, memos, letters, and standards are the textbook definition of "arbitrary and capricious". Can someone please start a lawsuit and get a permanent injunction against the ATF???
Pro tip….STOP ASKING THE ATF STUPID QUESTIONS! THEY KNOW YOU ARE SHOULDERING THE F@#$%ING BRACE! JUST SHOULDER IT AT THE RANGE AND SHUT THE F@#K UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!
Ok….im done now.
"AR-15 pistols have long been a thorn in the side of ATF."
Mr. Cleckner, could you please explain this?