It looks like what the boys ‘over there’ use, it saves some weight & length, and it doesn’t have the ridiculous legal baggage that comes along with an SBR. If they permanently attached an A2 flash hider to their barrel, they’d be legal and they’d achieve the look they want. So, what’s a gun bro to do? A lot of people noticed that the military’s standard issue muzzle device, the A2 flash hider, is a little over 1.5″ long.
#Keymo flashhider registration
That means that we have to fill out registration forms, pay $200 to the government, wait for months, and then what do you have? A rifle that you cannot take across state lines without express, written permission from the ATF. Us normal folk can’t run 14.5″ barrels on our rifles unless they are registered as SBRs. The US military issues SBRs as the standard service rifle (technically they’re machineguns, but whatever). The problem occurs when civilians want to be like the military and use what the cool guys use, or returning vets want to continue using what they were issued. I have no idea if that is really the case or not, but it’s also irrelevant to this discussion. Why 14.5″? Why not 14 even? Or 15? A quick google search indicates that 14.5″ ( with carbine length gas tube) was the shortest length to which they could still attach their bayonets. It’s the classic “Laws for thee, but not for me”, but that’s irrelevant to this particular post. They can do this, because they are working for the government. The US Army uses 14.5″ barrels on their M4 carbines. That rule is oppressive and arbitrary and dumb, but we can work around it. NFA laws being what they are, a rifle has to have a barrel of 16″+ to not be considered a Short Barreled Rifle (aka, SBR). I was first introduced to the idea of a pinned & welded AR barrel in about 2011. ‘Idiocy’ may be a strong word, but clickbait gonna clickbait.
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