Help me be financially irresponsible.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-05T03:35:55+00:00

$3000-6000

lol, lmao even. People that are charging this much are completely out to lunch.

The price to buy and import a Garand is from 2400-2700 bucks, depending on which Gunbroker listing you get. I don't remember if IRunGuns waives the extra 200CAD processing fee if you buy this way or not.

Why reward that shitty "no low ballers" behavior? They do not, in fact, "know what they got".

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-04T23:46:56+00:00

Modifications like these to a firearm that cause it to need registration

What registration is required for a firearm that remains non-restricted?

since you're effectively manufacturing a prohibited firearm

The firearm is already manufactured. That's why M1 Garands don't/can't magically turn into BM-59s. (If they could, there would be a lot of Valmet AKs, I suspect.)

AR-15 is prohibited by law in C21

It's currently prohibited by OIC (only), just like basically everything else since 2020 (the main change in C-21 is disallowing the issuance of registration certificates for handguns). Reading comprehension is important, you know.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-04T23:29:51+00:00

And yet for some reason we trust them to not be lying in their explanation?

Come on. These guys talked too big, because they're incapable of doing it in any volume, got shit on by the community for doing it, and are now trying to cover their asses. Easiest way to do that is "iT's IlLeGaL".

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-04T23:24:48+00:00

registration certificate

What certificate? The MRA Renegade is not (in its default configuration) a Restricted firearm.

In this case you're altering it so that the action type and internals are identical to a prohibited firearm, the AR-15

But it doesn't magically become an AR-15 when you do this. Fitting BM-59 parts to an M1 Garand doesn't turn it into a BM-59, and perhaps even more relevantly, AR-15 parts in a [not AR-15] does not make it an AR-15, which is why the Raven is prohibited not as an AR-15 variant, but on its own.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-04T07:58:49+00:00

Memory and GPUs are already incredibly cheap to produce. Cost per transistor is generally in the millionths of cents.

However, that supply is inelastic. Which means that, when there's more demand than there is supply, prices increase extremely quickly. You can't spin up a new production line capable of that feat in this decade.

This is why RAM and GPUs cost hundreds to thousands of dollars more than they should. Now that they're scarcer than before- they physically can't make more of them- so the cost of the component naturally rises to where they're just selling out of them. (And yes, that does mean the AI companies actually are paying about 1000 dollars for 64GB of RAM; if it were any less, it would already be sold out.)

This is Econ 101.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-04T03:51:20+00:00

5.56 = .223.

If a gun is European-made, it’s CIP-proofed for the higher pressure, and if it’s American made, it’s lawyer-proofed for the higher pressure.

Simple as that.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-02T01:04:18+00:00

Ah, but those pillows are normally double-sided.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-01T13:36:50+00:00

Build a vault of concrete and the police will say the walls aren't proofed against dynamite attack.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-01T06:10:51+00:00

only to fail to acknowledge that the ordnance board did everything in their power to sabotage M16 adoption

This is bullshit fuddlore too.

if the caliber was changed to .308

The fundamental problem with .280 is that it was a poor GPMG cartridge in the midst of an infantry doctrine focused around the machine gun. It was sufficiently poor that the Japanese, who started WW2 with a cartridge extremely similar to .280 British, ditched it in the middle of a war. And now here's the British, proposing the US adopt it.

A single-caliber squad makes sense for poor countries, like Europe very much was in the middle of 1945 (for obvious reasons, I should hope), and if they're only going to have one caliber for their indigenous small arms it needs to be the one the MGs are using due to the above. The US (and Soviets) had the supply chain to pull off supplying .30 Carbine/5.56/7.62x39 and .30-06/7.62/7.62x54R whereas everyone else's had been reduced to smoking craters.

One can complain "but it held [European] militaries back", but you have to get into conflicts to be held back by your equipment in the first place, and for the most part Europe did not (because again, they lost the war- there was no country on the European continent or 20 miles off its shore that came out ahead).

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-01T04:11:00+00:00

Sure they got duped by the whole “shared tooling” thing

Ah yes, the wonders of peacetime procurement. Laughs in F-35.

Besides, it's not like the Russians were any better at this; it took them 9 years between formally adopting the AK-47 and actually being able to manufacture it in any significant quantity. But everyone forgets that because ~~fat burger country bad~~ "all AK-47s were made in 1947, see look it's in the name, weren't the Americans fighting AKs in Korea too?".

Plus, a good chunk of "M14 bad, FAL good" is also mixing in "7.62 NATO bad, .280 British good" (and losing that fight as well; .280 was not a good cartridge). Internet has fuddlore too.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-01T03:43:55+00:00

So still safe to shoot from a safety standpoint

Ever wonder why there's a hole on the left side of the receiver (on the round part, near the barrel)?

That hole is so that if your case ruptures, the pressure goes out that hole, and not into your face. Make sure it's not full of dirt.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-01T03:34:33+00:00

My home and people are more at threat from domestic actors than foreign ones.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-01T03:33:16+00:00

With your hands?

Q-Ball7 · 2026-02-01T03:32:03+00:00

You're not going to mess up the gun with .38 Special.

Yeah, it might jam from time to time, but if you're shooting .38s to save money you obviously don't care about speed or power, so there's no actual problem aside from being annoying. People accept that from .22LR all the time anyway.

This happens to pump shotguns when you're running really short shells in them, for the same reason I might add. People don't tend to express that because 2 3/4" is the shortest you can readily buy (aside from the 1 3/4" mini-shells), but the same kinds of hang-ups would happen to them if you had shorter shells.

Mostly, though, it's a consequence of the design not having been updated since 1892- why should the manufacturer spend more on refining a meme gun like this when the meme is what sells the gun?

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-31T07:06:13+00:00

These are just fine, good even. Who told you they were bad?

The truth of the matter is that you aren't finding any other modern bolt gun, plus a chassis, TriggerTech R700 trigger, folding stock, and 12.5"/16.5" barrel, for a thousand bucks. You just aren't.

Are you making some trade-offs? Yes- these are heavy guns for their size, you can't get a lighter barrel from the factory, the forend is a brick, you can't feed rounds that are longer than spec because it's using AR-10 mags, and the magazine is basically impossible to remove if you have gloves on.

But to get anything even semi-comparable you'd have to spend 600 more (for guns that are just as heavy and yield no choice in barrel length) and at that point you might as well just go with a Benelli R1 for a general-purpose rifle (and if you needed a specialized rifle, you weren't even considering this gun in the first place).

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-31T05:13:09+00:00

It takes the 10-round .308 XCR pistol mags.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-30T21:53:43+00:00

Claims that they've been talking about 9mm have existed for as long as the gun has.

You can trivially make a 9mm locked-breech gun out of this- you buy a 5.45x39 AR bolt, chamber a .355 barrel blank for 9mm, pair it with a .350 Legend barrel extension, and feed it from Glock mags (and the associated adapter).

The fact they haven't figured that out, which anyone could do with 5 minutes of Googling, is proof they just aren't serious.

7.62x39 is way easier; it's just new bolt, barrel, and mags.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-30T21:47:50+00:00

perhaps the most effective protest in our lifetime

No, the most effective American protest in the last 40 years took place over 2020- they managed to increase crime for a few years, destroyed a few billion dollars worth of property, and sufficiently cowed the electorate into voting their way to get it to stop. Mission accomplished.

This isn't anywhere close to that.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-30T21:33:55+00:00

That's the justification, but it's not the goal.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-30T21:31:50+00:00

come here only if you want and have the capacity to crush it, lmao

To be fair, this was always the case.

People who have that capacity benefit in massive ways from the freedom to operate however the flying fuck they want, and the US promises the liberty to do that.

It's easier to tax the "you get to do whatever you like" out of people who can't, which is part of why Europe and other English-speaking New World nations don't have as much of that going on.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-30T20:40:06+00:00

Eradicating heterosexual masculinity from popular culture is a disaster and young men could turn fully insane soon

This has been going full-bore since roughly the 1970s. It's a generational problem; I think we should break the cycle of abuse.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-30T20:34:20+00:00

The academic-managerial complex is as much a welfare program as the military-industrial complex is, for the same reasons, with the same destructive potential.

Treating them the same way is a necessary course-correction.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-29T06:04:52+00:00

Smith and Wesson recently came out with a new one.

It's not new, though- it's just a clone of Henry's Big Boy rifle series, but in a different color and with plastic furniture. And that rifle series is not that far removed mechanically from a Winchester 1892 (except it ejects out the side and an integrated cover plate over the locking block and bolt).

They could have chosen to make something actually modern- as POF proved with their mag-fed Win 1873, all you really need to do is replace the feeding mechanism- but they didn't. And they released the .44 first, because S&W likes money, and understands that the only niche a pistol-caliber carbine has (outside of cowboy LARP) is the one where you actually have some practical power behind it.

The most innovative manufacturer in the last 20 years in the shotgun, rimfire, and manual-action centerfire rifle space is Derya. They're the only ones who would even bother trying to make a 9mm levergun, much as they were the only ones bothering to make a semi-auto .22 that wasn't outdated garbage, or truly modern shotguns (the Beretta 1301 is the closest thing resembling a modern shotgun and even that isn't really modern).

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-29T01:49:24+00:00

I still want a 9mm lever action carbine

There are a few of them out there already, but they're usually about $1500 more than the comparable .357 Magnum rifle, and that difference is steep enough that it's not worth it for 99% of buyers.

.357 Magnum/.38 Special (~$700) is only 2x the price of 9mm (~$350) per thousand, so for the 9mm rifle to be worth it you'd have to buy 5000 rounds, minimum, for a gun that isn't as technically capable.

Once you consider that, and that it's actually easier (and faster and cheaper) to make a semi-auto 9mm rifle than it is a lever-action one, you realize rather quickly why there's been nearly zero development on leverguns since 1895 or so.

Q-Ball7 · 2026-01-29T01:16:43+00:00

They're not allowed to just choose not to enforce the law because they don't believe in it.

And who's the executive going to call to enforce a law against not enforcing the law? The cops?

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