Are the Vltor comps AWB friendly? By living in MA im still under a the AWB and I am in the process of planning out a new rifle, and I like the Vltor comps but have no idea if they are gtg.
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Compensators are usually modified flash suppressors that have no vents/slots/ports on the bottom side of the device. This reduces muzzle rise and kicking up dust when in the prone (dust printing). They don’t have a constriction at the muzzle to create a pressure chamber and they provide flash suppression. In general I would group compensators with flash suppressors. If it doesn’t create blast and concussion and makes your ears bleed, its not AWB legal. Id try a Troy medieval brake or Primary Weapons FSC556. The manufactures or Tech support at Brownells could probably give you an answer.
Wrong. If it’s a compensator, it does have one or several baffles. The forward moving gas impacts the baffle and creates a force that counters the rearward recoil impulse. Further muzzle-flip control can be optained by redirecting the still high pressure gas to the sides or out the top but the majority of brake action comes from the baffle itself. An example of a AWB compliant muzzle brake/compensator is the EGW Post Ban Compensator.
The EGW compensator is ATF approved that is IS NOT a flash supressor. Comps, in general, increase flash, not decrease it so your statement about creating blast is accurate.
Maybe you’re just unclear about the difference between a muzzle brake and a (recoil) compensator. They are the same thing. Flash suppressors work by reducing gas pressure to slow and disperse gasses.
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