4)Bolt doesn't stay back after the last round. It's nit-picky, but having to work the charging handle instead of just slapping the bolt-release every time after inserting a fresh magazine is a little akward, especially with certain optics mounted.
I think that it is difficult psychologically for Swissarms owners to butcher their rifles to create this new configuration. Most of responses I have read indicate that people would prefer a complete lower. There is a psychological factor at play again. Swissarms are expensive rifles. A person who buys Swissarms believes that he buys a superior product in all respects that does not need anything changed. The average Swissarms owner considers AR compatible lower a nice toy or addition to already existing good rifle, and not necessarily an improvement over already good product. Whether this is true or not does not matter, this is what people believe. Based on that I think that a complete lower would actually sell better even at extra cost. I would even go further and suggest that if there is an opportunity for a dealer to purchase a batch of complete uppers and combine them with these AR style lowers and sell them as complete rifles at a competitive price, many people would go for it. I know I would. In any case, this product is a step in a right direction and only time will show what the best way of selling it is.
Fot the SAN, the upper is the firearm and it's not restricted. For the AR-15, it's the lower receiver that's classified as the firearm and it's restricted. While the NEA lower will indeed allow the use of cheap and plentiful mags, wouldn't make the SAN a restricted rifle the moment they are coupled?Why would you swap parts between lowers? The Euro mags made by Swiss Arms for the 550/551/552/553 and by HK for the G36's are inferior and hated. I have a dozen emails from elite units in europe who are buying our G36 mag well adapters that give complaint after complaint regarding the Swiss and G36 mags. Same goes for the folding stocks. The guys who actually shoot their guns for living hate the stocks.
Let me give you a piece of advice, if you are going to buy the NEA Swiss lower, sell your factory lower for the the $700 its worth and buy a case of ammo with your new lower.
Fot the SAN, the upper is the firearm and it's not restricted. For the AR-15, it's the lower receiver that's classified as the firearm and it's restricted. While the NEA lower will indeed allow the use of cheap and plentiful mags, wouldn't make the SAN a restricted rifle the moment they are coupled?
I have also hear that complete uppers might be availalbe on there own.
Any truth to this??
Yes, I rebooted my brain a second after I submitted my posting and I edited to that effect. With all of us referring to as the AR lower and a little brain fade, oops.No.. It's still the upper that's the gun. It's a SAN lower with an AR magwell, not an AR lower on a SAN rifle.