OK, I’m asking it. The classic noob AR question. Is there anybody willing to stoop way down and answer this one? :o
as far as I know… it should be alright.
Dry fire it to your hearts delight.
short answer YES:D
absolutely not. you’ll really mess things up, and end up with a big problem.
unless you take the ammo out first… then you’re ok.
Only do it with an assembled rifle. Doing it on just the lower can cause damage.
Really? How so?
the hammer smacks the bolt stop everytime you let it fall without the upper and bolt group in place. It will eventually break the stop and damage the receiver in the area around it. You can get a hammer drop block, made for dry firing with the upper off.
Dry-firing is perfectly fine. There are training exercises for trigger squeeze which involve dry-firing, as well as dry-firing being part of the function check of the weapon.
Learn something new…will take a look at this sometime this weekend after I take the AR out.
I do with no problem.