Anyone interested in 5.45x39 barrel/bolt combos for AR builds? Mags available as well
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Having done a brief survey of what's out there on this rifle, breath holding wouldn't be on my list of recommendations. Assume that the lab is staffed by people who look for a reason to say no, and who will use Google as a research tool, and it's sunk. If it becomes available I'll probably buy the first one I see, I'd love it to be available, but I think we'll see Murray Smith tap dancing through the intersection of Portage and Main, in a pink tutu, in December, while handing MP5's out to anyone who wants one, long before we see this with an FRT.
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Correction - I can't see it getting a non-prohib FRT. The T81 stood on its own merits - it has never been described by 7 or 8 US Youtube "experts" as an enhanced AK. The Chinese don't retail guns in their home market, and since it was their first real domestic gun, they didn't piggy back it on the AK's reputation. The NEA/BCL 102 was expressly designed, from day one, to avoid being an AR, and the maker knew enough to fight any attempt to describe it as an AR by anyone who had actually shot one. Unfortunately, I think, for this gun, associating it with the AK is a good thing in the US and reviewers are paying it a compliment, they'll also be why it's killed here.
I disagree........and I'll gladly take that bet!!!! The m10x is no more an ak than the type 81 and after looking it over I'm positive the lab will issue it a NR/R. The AK is prohibited based on looks. The lab will approve the m10!!
The AK is prohib based on ignorance, since ignorance hasn't been cured, and based on some of the other "variants" that have been banned, I'd say that the same ignorance is still managing the lab.
Just found an email I got from Motiuk a little while back, they said they do bolt action conversions to 5.45x39 like the one they showed in a thread they had a while back in 2013. Looking at it know you were the first to comment on it haha. So I guess they'll do it for people who ask but beyond that I don't know how the process works. However, they also said they were working on a VZ-58 variant so fingers crossed.
