For those of you leafs out there not in the know, there is an Armalite AR platform which is Non-Restricted. The AR-180B: A 5.56 gas-piston driven semi-automatic and hybrid polymer lower with steel supports and a dual recoil spring.
Unfortunately the firearm is no longer in production and difficult to find, but a variety of aftermarket parts and upgrades exist.
Should I buy one, and if so, what is the best FFL to use for import to Canada.?
You guys scrapped the rifle registry right? So just buy an AR-180B in America and smuggle it in, the cops can't prove it's not yours.
Alexander Long
Wasn't it made explicitly to be cheaper to build than the 15? I know the economy of scale has made the 15 cheaper due to volume of parts available, but what's to stop an entrepreneur from flooding the north american market with century tier, stanag mag taking 180Bs?
Jaxson Martin
Tooling cost. Why would a company in a capitalist economy spend a significant amount of time and effort to set up for a gun that may or may not be a commercial success when they can just buy a CAD machine, have monkeys spew out AR15 parts and print money?
Dylan Cook
Because of long term gain? Any company worth its salt thinks ahead in terms of dozens or hundreds of quarters.
The Walmart company lost significant amounts of money in the beginning, had almost no profit, when they were building their base network. Even today they have a loss leader program, they buy eggs for $.30ea and sell them for $.20ea, losing a dollar or more per dozen eggs (remember shipping!) because the cheap egg prices attract customers to the more expensive cheeses in the same aisle.
I don't think you understand what Means, if you think it's all about short term gain.
Only corporations (which are socialist) can afford to think about short term gain, because the government protects their ass in case of failure.
Michael Martinez
You forgot the BCL102 or the Modern Varmint.
Michael Wood
there isn't a database of whoever buys a rifle in Canada?
Please smuggle your SVT-40s, factory SBSs and SBRs please and you get our standard capacity magazines ;^) .
Luke Long
For the amount you'd spend on an AR-180B these days you could spend ~500 more and get a Bushmaster ACR with an NR barrel.
Or a Robinson Arms XCR (I own one, its a hoot)
Or (keep in mind the Modern Varmint jacks up in price if you "custom build" your own config).
Or a (((TAVOR))), if you want a polymer lower based gun like the AR180B.
Used to be there was a registry of all guns, but the non-restricted registry was scrapped under Harper. Now it's only restricted guns that have to be registered, so mostly handguns, plus scary rifles that they haven't banned yet, like the AR-15. Of course, it may not stay like that long. The news was going on this morning about a study claiming 70-odd% of Canadians would support banning guns from urban areas.
Noah Perez
Yeah, except that the 180b's receivers can be made from a stamping and welding instead of milling, which will allow for full rifles costing 300$ if you use off the shelf components like the keltec su16c's barrel and gas system, which itself was derived from the 180b. Even with a markup, cucucks would gobble them up at 500$, ready for the racewar. Shit, a slightly modified ar15 lower could be matted to a slightly modified 180b upper for the second takedown pin.