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Both of my Grandfathers are veterans. My father’s dad was Navy in WW2 And my mother’s dad was Air Force during Vietnam.

My father was Air Force for 25 years.

I was Army for 16 years.

And today I agree with you that under no circumstances should our kids join the military. It’d a sad truth that the military has become, honestly since Korea, an arm of the government to obtain resources and position our guns against Russia and China. It is not a Force for good anymore.

Sad but true.

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My biggest piece of advice is to avoid the “Gucci Gear” AR build. The market is flooded with a bazillion items for your AR. Most of them are gimicky and unnecessary.

In my opinion, you need three things on your AR:

1. a good sling, anyone who had to carry an M16 or M4 in the military with a standard sling knows exactly what I am talking about. Your sling will be relative to the size of AR you build. For example, if you have a full sized or mid sized AR15, especially with a full sized butt stock, a single point sling may not be the best option. The larger the gun, the better a multi point sling can be for when your weapon is not shouldered. Do a ton of reading on the slings you like. Read customer reviews. Nothing sucks more than a horrible sling choice.

2. a top shelf optic (yes, iron sights are 100% outdated and should only ever be used as back up in case your optic fails). I know this will cause an argument, but frankly, modern sights take the guess work out of shooting a weapon designed for 300 meters or closer (yes, the 550 meter point target stuff is a pipe dream that only MILSIM people like to talk about ). Your engagements in the real world will be 200 meters and closer. A good holosight will help with room clearing, follow up shots and night shooting. Iron sights were great in 1903. Not in 2022.

3. a good light. The ability to see what you are shooting at in the dark is vital. Hitting a target at 3 am or in a dark building after the lights go out etc will not only keep your round count lower, but also add an element to your aggressive posture. Good weapon lights will blind the enemy, disorient them etc. However, that said, learn to strobe your light. Select a light with a strobe and remote pressure switch option. Leaving a light on non stop in the dark will absolutely make you a target. Tactical practice with your weapon light and learning how to instinctively close your dominate eye when using your light is very important.

Honorable mentions, and this is only if you have the money and time and desire are a good binary trigger and suppressor. But these items are luxury items and not needed to build a good battle rifle.

All the other stuff, while fun, or maybe cool looking, are not needed by the average shooter for defense or offensive reasons. So many people buy all this shit and end up with a 15 pound AR15 that they can barely shoot.

Spend that extra cash on as many 30 round magazines (frankly, drum mags are dumb) as you can get and as much ammo as you can get. Magazines are the unsung need of any AR rifle. If you ever find yourself engaging real world targets, you will almost never police up your magazines. You will shoot, drop them, reload and keep moving. So having several hundred magazines in reserve is a must for anyone who is prepparedness minded.

Avoid niche AR15’s. While piston driven AR’s are cool, and could be better in some situations, the fact is that the one thing that makes the AR the people’s rifle, is common parts, common mags, common ammo. I don’t own any AR’s in off calibers for that reason. Only 5.56 stamped AR’s for me. I don’t have 7.62, 9mm or .22 cal conversions. I want my rifle to work with your rifle. I want to use virtually any BCG or buffer spring or firing pin retaining pins etc. I want common stuff. This is the mantra any new AR owner show follow. Sure, in a year or two when you have your battle rifle built, stocked and ready to roll; by all means go buy the other stuff if you want. But focus on what you need for your immediate preparedness needs. Simple is better.

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This is super helpful!

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How do you think we should go about educating people to understand that it’s ok to spend more locally then less internationally? What is the root cause of companies wanting to save that $.20 on the chickens? And I don’t think the answer is as simple as “greed”. I don’t see it as greedy at all for a company to try to save on overhead. So where is the line drawn in the sand for what constitutes legitimate saving of money to bring a cheaper product to market vs engaging in society ending, short sighted practices?

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So you would say that spending more for a locally sourced item, rather than spending less for an imported item is healthier for society in general?

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Would you say that globalization has in part made things this fragile and easily destroyed?

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I truly enjoyed reading this response. There is a true sense of history in it, and I especially loved your phrase, “pre-covid overconsumptive orgy of commercial pleasure and convenience”. Dear God that rings so true.

I also appreciate the fact you realize that the US isn’t the world. (I titled this discussion after the T.S. Eliot poem “The Hollow Men”, not from a nationalistic world view). We certainly as a people have acted quiet to the opposite and our own hubris has destroyed any foundation that our house was once built upon.

Furthermore, your call to the evangelicals is especially true. Asking God to favor one nation over another can be rather problematic. That in and of itself is a conversation to have around a fire pit with a nice bourbon amongst trusted friends.

In my not so humble opinion, God will never favor the United States as long as we sacrifice our children to false gods. Praying for God to bless a nation that has gone so far out of its way to not just ignore his will, but to flaunt the opposite; is rather egotistical in and of itself. (I say all of this as a non-traditional Christian, so not in a preaching sort of way as much as an outsider’s observation).

Anyway, great comment. I hope to read more of you on my threads in the future.

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I like this quote. I also like the Joe Rogan quote that says something to the effect that man cannot destroy the earth. The earth could shake us off like a bad case of the flees if it wanted too.

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I tend to agree that the “End Times” are not yet here. I take a less traditional approach with the subject of eschatology than most. But that aside, I think the world is in transition. I think that what has been brought high, must be brought low.

There is an ebb and flow to societal evolution, and we are seeing the real modern version of that IMO. As Ecclesiastes says, there is nothing new under the sun.

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👍👍 Yes. Make sure your receiver is stamped 5.56 NATO

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I too own an Armalite M15A4. It’s my favorite AR I have ever owned.

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Agreed. There is no government solution.

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