Re-opening the muzzle brake can of worms.

[m1a_scoutguy]

Now that.... THAT, my friends, was worth posting twice!

LOL,dam,this is the 1st I looked at this again. Sorry guys for the double whammy!

[Diamondback]

LOL,dam,this is the 1st I looked at this again. Sorry guys for the double whammy!

Not you, server-side issue under The New Management. See "Site Issues" thread - it's not you who's got anything to apologize for, but whoever's the new HMFIC lurking in the shadows that refuses to feed the critters running the hamster-wheel running the server.

[ViniVidivici]

Indeed, was doing some training with others last weekend, and being beside folks who're shooting is always louder than behind.

Guns to my side were sporting A2s, just like me, I don't think I'd want to do that kind of shooting with folks running brakes.

[markm]

I don't think I'd want to do that kind of shooting with folks running brakes.

Brakes on 5.56 are good for people with no friends.

[tangolima]

Brakes on 5.56 are good for people with no friends.

To be fair, for people in the lost states, California being one, people are sorta strong armed into that. Flash hider is evil, brake / compensator is not. Some, if not most, people pick brake over linear comp, and that's that.

-TL

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[m1a_scoutguy]

To be fair, for people in the lost states, California being one, people are sorta strong armed into that. Flash hider is evil, brake / compensator is not. Some, if not most, people pick brake over linear comp, and that's that.

-TL

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I don't want this thread to go sideways but that is true. Back in the good ole days when pre-bans meant something you could have whatever you wanted on those rifles. But the 1st assault weapons ban (even after it ended) made it so if you "didn't have a pre-ban rifle you couldn't have an evil flash hider, it had to be a muzzle brake. So, I used/tried/had multiple brakes and even went down the Battlecomp road for a while. So it's safe to say I have used a few. Now, after the famous SAFE Act in NY, if you want a "compliant" rifle, it can have no threads, so no MB or flash hiders are allowed now. Its a crazy world that's for sure.

[Ned Christiansen]

To be fair, for people in the lost states, California being one, people are sorta strong armed into that. Flash hider is evil, brake / compensator is not. Some, if not most, people pick brake over linear comp, and that's that.

-TL

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I think it's very safe to say that brakes hurt more people than flash hiders, if you were to to boil it down that way. But then, the people getting hurt are gun owners, so.... I guess they deserve it....?

[Ned Christiansen]

scoutguy, you said:
Now, after the famous SAFE Act in NY, if you want a "compliant" rifle, it can have no threads, so no MB or flash hiders are allowed now. Its a crazy world that's for sure.

So, no threads, is that the wording of it, and just out of curiosity, is there a hole in that wording that would allow a FH or brake to be machined directly into the barrel steel? Or, could the attachment of either be via some means other than threads? I wrote ATF during the AWB
(no threads, no FH's but brakes threaded on were OK if pinned and welded) to ask these questions and others, like how do you define a FH? If I make a FH that sucks as a FH and makes a big fireball, is it a FH because I call it that? What if I make a brake that hides 20% of the flash, is it still a brake or is it a FH? Do you have a testing protocol, do I have to send in a proposed product for your determination? Of course, they never responded because nobody had the answers. The overloads made laws that were unenforceable because no one knew enough about what they were banning to be able to define it ("a shoulder thing that goes up").

[ChattanoogaPhil]

As long as the firearm doesn't have a terrifying shoulder thing that goes up you should be good to go.