Brigade Makasi MK15 We're back in business!!

"They will just ban it!" Gun owners have become a bunch of limp #### pansies.

I pre-ordered one from my go-to gun shop that is offering store credit if it is banned before I get it. Worst case, I buy $2500 of ammo. Or, more likely, I pick up one of their super shorty 300 Blackout bolt guns for shooting coyotes in the face from my tractor. Or if I get it before it's banned, by the magic of Saskatchewan, it's not banned and I have another meh 5.56 semi auto to shoot coyotes in the face from my tractor when I'd rather be using a 10" AR15.

I look forward to doing some nifty things to it in the shop.
 
recce said:
Remove it before it wears out.
Brigade touts the upper as FAL style, but adds something not found on a FAL upper. :confused:
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MG like FN mini ads C9 does have a flip up ejection port cover, but it is located on the under side of the receiver. The casing is naturally ejected down wards by the extractor there. In a rifle the casing is ejected sideways and up. Think of the relationship between the direction of travel and the angle of the opening trap door.

I have seen 1 failure of extraction port cover - that's more of an improper installation of the ejection port cover spring than the spring snapping.

Saying that, it probably will not have an issue for 99% of the population in the life time, but this is a case of why making this choice? Either this is done so for "aesthetic differentiation" aka product differentiation, or the geometry of the receiver makes it thicker near the top so it has more meat for the ejection port cover hinging rod.

Notice B&T SP9 receiver geometry is kinda similar to the MK15 without a dust cover - this leads me to believe that the second reason is probably the case.
 
greentips said:
or the geometry of the receiver makes it thicker near the top so it has more meat for the ejection port cover hinging rod.
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Yes it is.
In the two images below, you can see that the .223 rifle has a Magpul type port cover and the 7.62 x 39 has a standard type. If they are shipping with the Magpul version it will make removing it a snap if that's what an owner wants to do.

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SigWig said:
^ you're right but did you ever close the dc on your ar?
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I do actually. Once cleaned and put up, the dust cover gets closed (I keep the bolt relatively 'wet').

Thank you all for the reasurances, and I too am confident that it will most likely never be an issue...but it's upside down...it's going to drive me nuts. Once a burr gets under my saddle I'm fairly unconsolable.
 
I think it ends up this way because they are machining the receiver out of an aluminum plate and wanting the FNC hexagonal folded sheet metal aesthetics. Obviously one would want the final receiver geometry to be "flat" to save materials. Bolting an ejection port cover hinge rod hanger on the receiver is extra labour step and aesthetically not pleasing, but shaving away a full layer of aluminium just to create a hanger doesn't math with production efficiency. So hanging the ejection port hinge rod at 12 o'clock of the ejection port is the solution.

In order to have an ejection port cover hinge rod hanger at 6 o'clock, the AR receiver has that hanger incorporated in the forging already as rasied bump. The Colt Canada IUR/MMR has the barrel trunnion covered by the forging, that raised area provides the meat for the rod hanger. Eugene stoner had that hanger forged into the receiver even with the original AR10, because he wanted a downward hinged ejection port cover.
 
So, without falling to the partisan fear
Mongering, what’s a realistic wait time to ensure this stays unbanned?

Example if in 6 months down the line this is still available, is it safe to say it likely won’t be banned?
 
Panzo said:
So, without falling to the partisan fear
Mongering, what’s a realistic wait time to ensure this stays unbanned?

Example if in 6 months down the line this is still available, is it safe to say it likely won’t be banned?
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They banned pink mossberg plinksters. Nothing is "safe" guy.

These rifles may take 6 months to get here, and they are non-restricted. They don't fall into the OIC, nor any other legislation and the horse cops have given it, it's non-restricted designation. That all equates to buy it.

If they ban it it will have to be another piece of legislation or OIC which is expensive and time consuming, we'll all have them in hand by then...and they can't get at them because they aren't registered.

The optimist in me believes that Carney's lawyers have told him our Supreme Court challenge is likely going to win. It's why you're hearing virtually nothing more from Gary and the clown crew where gun grabs are concerned.
 
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Painkillers said:
They banned pink mossberg plinksters. Nothing is "safe" guy.

These rifles may take 6 months to get here, and they are non-restricted. They don't fall into the OIC, nor any other legislation and the horse cops have given it, it's non-restricted designation. That all equates to buy it.

If they ban it it will have to be another piece of legislation or OIC which is expensive and time consuming, we'll all have them in hand by then...and they can't get at them because they aren't registered.

The optimist in me believes that Carney's lawyers have told him our Supreme Court challenge is likely going to win. It's why you're hearing virtually nothing more from Gary and the clown crew where gun grabs are concerned.
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I hope you're right about the Supreme Court win. Not likely to happen... but it would be sweet!
 
Panzo said:
So, without falling to the partisan fear
Mongering, what’s a realistic wait time to ensure this stays unbanned?

Example if in 6 months down the line this is still available, is it safe to say it likely won’t be banned?
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You are trying to look inside the head of a Liberal and make sense of it all.

I wish you luck. You will need it.
 
Anybody know what it'd take to swap the barrel on this thing? I've never touched an AR before, and from my understanding the MK15 doesn't necessarily use a standard gasblock or length or... Idk what I'm talking about as I'm ignorant to the platform lol. All I know is our Canadian model ships with a gov't profile barrel, which I believe is the thinnest.
 
20YearsOfTannerite said:
Anybody know what it'd take to swap the barrel on this thing? I've never touched an AR before, and from my understanding the MK15 doesn't necessarily use a standard gasblock or length or... Idk what I'm talking about as I'm ignorant to the platform lol. All I know is our Canadian model ships with a gov't profile barrel, which I believe is the thinnest.
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From my understanding a "pencil" barrel would be the thinnest. A "government" profile barrel is more robust and common on these types of firearms.

As far as swapping the barrel to a different "AR" type barrel... some modifications would be necessary due to the piston driven gas system vs direct impingement on AR's.
 
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