Thank you to everyone for their patience. A draft of the article is now available.

Just read the whole thing, truly excellent job. Not only did I learn about NEA but I learned a lot about the AR manufacturing process, which was fascinating. It looks like NEA makes a very decent AR.

I don't think it was necessary to talk about other Canadian Manufacturers, but well written none the less.

The real question is who wants to throw in a couple bucks to send Misanthropist on a stealth mission to NEA, dig through their dumpsters, and find out who their secret manufacturers are?? I'll throw in $20!
 
Clobbersauras said:
The real question is who wants to throw in a couple bucks to send Misanthropist on a stealth mission to NEA, dig through their dumpsters, and find out who their secret manufacturers are?? I'll throw in $20!
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LOL - it's not that big a secret... ;) You just have to know what you're looking at...
 
I really only mentioned other manufacturers because no doubt if I didn't, someone would complain that there already are Canadian manufacturers of ARs. That is of course true but nobody has even tried to do it on the scale that NEA are doing it.

I made a lot of phone calls to try to pin down some of the suppliers. I learned a lot. Most of what I learned is in there, or at least alluded to.

Really glad you enjoyed it.

One thing I have not figured out is where all my footnotes and references disappeared to...I had a forced software change mid-edit (I use a work computer that I don't really control) and my references seem to have disappeared. I was up to about 20 footnotes. I'm sure they're in my computer somewhere but I am not entirely sure where.

I will have to find them though as a lot of the information is condensed from multiple sources and in many cases I had issues like "five out of six people told me this...one said something totally different" and I am sure if I don't come up with the citations, someone will have a big problem with it.
 
Clobbersauras said:
Yeah, I know. I just thought it would be good to keep a totally ridiculous level of scrutiny going, why change things now?:D
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In fairness, having worked on an unrelated NEA design project and product-tested for them (parts for multiple platforms), I might know more than some folks, but seriously, if you have seen a lot of AR parts from known makers, it would take about 10 minutes to figure out who their un-named suppliers are.

The only NEA AR part I ever got that was unsatisfactory was an out-of spec LPK trigger spring from their first production run, which was a sub-contracted part they no longer use.
 
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