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Posted: 1/1/2013 7:12:29 AM EDT
| Has anybody used them? I ordered some from them, wondering if they have any kind of good/bad/neutral reputation. Looks solid and milspec to me. |
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I own Code Red Firearms.
feel free to ask anything you like. We are slammed with orders and are working 2 shifts with very little sleep but if your questions come in we have staff to respond to email. Phones are non stop so it's hit or miss because we just cannot handle the amount of calls that are coming in. The best bet is email as we are very good at getting back to consumer requests. |
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I own Code Red Firearms. feel free to ask anything you like. We are slammed with orders and are working 2 shifts with very little sleep but if your questions come in we have staff to respond to email. Phones are non stop so it's hit or miss because we just cannot handle the amount of calls that are coming in. The best bet is email as we are very good at getting back to consumer requests. It's very nice to see industry people following consumers and getting involved in the threads. An owner that puts himself out there for the public talk to, to me that speaks for how the company is ran and that he recognizes that it is a consumer driven company. I'd give them a try when I'm ready to order another lower. |
| I just ordered one from a local dealer and he told me that he expected an order about the 2nd week of February. A friend just put a rifle together with one of the Code Red lowers and is pleased with how it went together. We'll see in a few weeks. Now I need to start looking for a parts kit. |
| Just ordered my Code Red stripped lower today. It's on backorder, and their site says 6-8 weeks, now for the waiting game. I did email them today to iron out all the details of my order and FFL dealer. They were very quick to respond and very helpful. I like how Tony (owner) and Ira (PistolPay) get on here from time to time and give updates. |
| I ordered mine when they said "3-4 weeks shipped" or something like that. The next day, it changed to 6-8 weeks lead time. Still haven't charged my credit card yet though... I think that Code Red should become a site sponsor. I'm sure that it would bring them a lot of business. |
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Code Red has updated their website. Cool looking site. Looks like they are setting up to sell more items than just lowers.
Check it out at www.coderedfirearms.com |
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I read on another Code Red thread that they tried to become a paid sponsor (not sure how all that works with the site), but they were rejected?? Don't get it. Why would you reject anyone selling items that make up the name of this site?? Possibly because they are relatively new? Maybe they have to build a reputation before they can become a sponsor. |
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You are asking the wrong person, Jasontum was responding to the owner Codered1. But he can't talk on the forums anymore. When he answers our questions on here, the moderators say he is advertising. Go check out their website, and ask them anything you need to.
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I ordered my Code Red stripped lower yesterday. Since the only communication in ordering was through Pistol Pay it was a little worrisome but I did get an email from PP confirming the order was received. Looks like with a 6-8 week wait I am looking at around sometime in March to get mine.
I also ordered a Zombie Defense stripped lower tonight for $135 bucks they say is slated for April production. Last but not least I also ordered an ATI polymer Omni stripped lower when they showed up for a very short time today on the Palmetto State Armory website for $69. I plan on building an AR from either the Code Red or Zombie lower then either saving the other two for later (I have a son and a SIL that would both like their own AR) or selling them at some point. |
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since youre asking for feedback, skim trhough the link above and this one too
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1435964_Code_Red_Firearms_Buyback__Apology_issued___.html and this post gives you a summation- http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1435964_Code_Red_Firearms_Buyback__Apology_issued___.html&page=2#i38330130 |
| Anybody here order their lowers after Dec. 28th and receive them yet? My 2 keep getting pushed back, been 6 weeks almost, now told additional 2 weeks? when i ordered it was 3-4 week delivery. Said issue with orders and paperwork caused delay. Spoke to code red and told me that they are expecting 150 units this week, but doubts mine will be in it due to increasing #'s. Shouldn't messed up orders placed before others be put on priority instead of filling new orders and putting the much delayed customers on the back burner? needless to say, this is frustrating and BAD for business, been recommending these guys to customers at my gun store, makes me look like an a$$ when people get poor commo and info from company's i recommend...seems that ordering sooner was NOT beneficial. |
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To ease some minds, I ordered two lowers on 1/3 and received them from my ffl on Monday (2/4). I don't know why I received mine before some of the December orders, but the numbers on mine were in the 200's.
Edit: I fitted a PSA lower build kit on them and everything looks good. Buffer tube screws in fine, trigger group sits nicely, upper receiver matches up as well. Thats as far as I got as I don't have any other tools to put the rest in. I will be doing that this weekend. |
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CANCEL YOUR CODE RED ORDERS IMMEDIATELY, THEY SUPPORT MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND HIS GUN GRABBING HENCHMAN MIAMI MAYOR REGALADO.
Tony Vega who is the owner of Code Red firearms which manufactures AR15 components, posed in a photo op with Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, during an illegal gun buy back program, which Code Red helped sponsor. Instead of returning the illegal firearms to their lawful owners, the police are destroying them and this is what Tony had to say about that, "I really could not care less what happens to these guns or who brings them and / or if they are kept, destroyed or returned." Code Red is now scrubbing their Facebook page of all evidence but members of AR15 saved some of the pages & comments before they were deleted. Take a look for your self, that's Tony in the middle and he actually has his arm around Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v14/Medicfrost/Codered.png In addition, Code Red CEO Tony "Asswhipe" Vega says AR15.com members aren't shit and don't represent 1% of his business. BOYCOTT THIS POS COMPANY!!!! Quoted:
I'll try and throw some sort of timeline for you, all in one post: First is the Facebook picture, taken with known anti-gun mayor Tomas Regalado: http://<a href=http://i.imgur.com/bCzuSRu.jpg</a>" /> Then some facebook arguing about the program, whether it promotes theft, and if the rightful owners of the stolen guns get them back (they do not)...leads to this comment: http://<a href=http://i.imgur.com/QGNN5WB.jpg</a>" /> Then posted on the Arfcom GD forum, and a flame-fest ensues. Code Red starts banning people from his FB, then just deletes all record of this stuff altogether. Entire Facebook scrubbed of this event. GD thread charges on, people start canceling orders, Code Red holds to his actions, with such remarks as: Arfcommer GeneralDisarray's post from the other thread: My email to cancel order: Please cancel my order and promptly refund my money. I do not support businesses that sponsor gun buy back programs. Thank you Tony Vega response: Nothing would give me more pleasure. And this from Arfcommer Seanc_wa: Quoted: i sent him a quick message: 7:59pm ME deleting comments and blocking people. you made a bad move. enjoy the consequences. 8:02pm Code Red Firearms [my name] ARFCOM IS less than 1% our business. Deleting rhetorical banter helps with the housekeeping. you permission to repost. (Permission to repost is false, anybody with a critical comment was, and is still, banned instantly.) The guns were destroyed, as per news articles, I can find absolutely zero reference to any guns being returned to their rightful owners at all. In one of the articles below it states just as much. Need any sources as to whether this mayor is a vehement anti-gunner, and not the sort of guy to have a goofy photo-op with, let alone partner with in a gun buyback, here you go: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/14/3182274/miami-mayor-joins-gun-control.html http://www.examiner.com/article/miami-mayor-wants-more-gun-control http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/miami-gun-buyback-program-dates_n_2432491.html#slide=2023046 http://miamitimesonline.com/gun-buy-back-operation-to-be-held-at-three-local-churches/ http://wlrn.org/post/what-miamis-regalado-and-other-us-mayors-say-will-ease-gun-violence Fairly accurate? |
| Glad people that order before are being put behind those new orders. I emailed tony awhile back and told him that according to this post, people who ordered after me were getting their orders, and he replied with "Forums are not the place for info regarding Code Red. There are many factors at play, order date, charge date, FFL, ez check, call to FFL. If you want to get into a situation where you think you might corner me into shipping a lower because "you think" you're ahead of anybody else, I rather refund you and preserve our process. " In the time I've been going back and forth about the belly aching "I was here first" stuff I could have shipped a few more. Cut me some slack please. There is no risk with a credit card. You'll get refunded by your card if not product shows up. I'm even offering to refund you right now if you're not happy. If its ok I'd like to get back to work on your order." And i like the part where he could have shipped a few more in the time he was talking to me, yet couldnt ship mine? Just those after me, and "i'd like to get back to work on your order"? according to employes, at least 2 shipments since this email had been recieved, mine not among them, so NO, you arent working on MY order. These poorly worded emails of putting words in my mouth is all because I am TRYING to get a definitive answer on WHY earlier orders are NOT being shippped. Needless to say, I wont be referring anymore customers his way if wanting honest, accurate udates is "belly aching"! ...little does he know that his being a new business, and BAD word of mouth from square one will be his demise. |
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I cancelled my order on Monday. Partly due to how they handled the whole buyback thing, but I was more mad about the lack of order updates and there seems to be no rhyme or reason on who's orders get shipped. A poster above said his 1/3 order shipped, but there are December orders where the customers have not heard a thing.
After waiting 5 weeks for nothing (when it was supposed to be 3-4 weeks) with no end in sight, I decided enough was enough. I ordered a lower from PK Monday night and it shipped the next day. Should have it in hand tomorrow so I can finally get my first build going. |
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I cancelled my order on Monday. Partly due to how they handled the whole buyback thing, but I was more mad about the lack of order updates and there seems to be no rhyme or reason on who's orders get shipped. A poster above said his 1/3 order shipped, but there are December orders where the customers have not heard a thing. After waiting 5 weeks for nothing (when it was supposed to be 3-4 weeks) with no end in sight, I decided enough was enough. I ordered a lower from PK Monday night and it shipped the next day. Should have it in hand tomorrow so I can finally get my first build going. They are hooking up local LEOs & friends before their waiting civilian customers. One of my friends is a local LEO and he told me a few days ago that he could get me to the front of the waiting list because code red was hooking them up. I was gonna take him up on that until I saw the buyback fiasco. |
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CANCEL YOUR CODE RED ORDERS IMMEDIATELY, THEY SUPPORT MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND HIS GUN GRABBING HENCHMAN MIAMI MAYOR REGALADO. Tony Vega who is the owner of Code Red firearms which manufactures AR15 components, posed in a photo op with Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, during an illegal gun buy back program, which Code Red helped sponsor. Instead of returning the illegal firearms to their lawful owners, the police are destroying them and this is what Tony had to say about that, "I really could not care less what happens to these guns or who brings them and / or if they are kept, destroyed or returned." Code Red is now scrubbing their Facebook page of all evidence but members of AR15 saved some of the pages & comments before they were deleted. Take a look for your self, that's Tony in the middle and he actually has his arm around Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v14/Medicfrost/Codered.png In addition, Code Red CEO Tony "Asswhipe" Vega says AR15.com members aren't shit and don't represent 1% of his business. BOYCOTT THIS POS COMPANY!!!! Quoted:
I'll try and throw some sort of timeline for you, all in one post: First is the Facebook picture, taken with known anti-gun mayor Tomas Regalado: http://<a href=http://i.imgur.com/bCzuSRu.jpg</a>" /> Then some facebook arguing about the program, whether it promotes theft, and if the rightful owners of the stolen guns get them back (they do not)...leads to this comment: http://<a href=http://i.imgur.com/QGNN5WB.jpg</a>" /> Then posted on the Arfcom GD forum, and a flame-fest ensues. Code Red starts banning people from his FB, then just deletes all record of this stuff altogether. Entire Facebook scrubbed of this event. GD thread charges on, people start canceling orders, Code Red holds to his actions, with such remarks as: Arfcommer GeneralDisarray's post from the other thread: My email to cancel order: Please cancel my order and promptly refund my money. I do not support businesses that sponsor gun buy back programs. Thank you Tony Vega response: Nothing would give me more pleasure. And this from Arfcommer Seanc_wa: Quoted: i sent him a quick message: 7:59pm ME deleting comments and blocking people. you made a bad move. enjoy the consequences. 8:02pm Code Red Firearms [my name] ARFCOM IS less than 1% our business. Deleting rhetorical banter helps with the housekeeping. you permission to repost. (Permission to repost is false, anybody with a critical comment was, and is still, banned instantly.) The guns were destroyed, as per news articles, I can find absolutely zero reference to any guns being returned to their rightful owners at all. In one of the articles below it states just as much. Need any sources as to whether this mayor is a vehement anti-gunner, and not the sort of guy to have a goofy photo-op with, let alone partner with in a gun buyback, here you go: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/14/3182274/miami-mayor-joins-gun-control.html http://www.examiner.com/article/miami-mayor-wants-more-gun-control http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/miami-gun-buyback-program-dates_n_2432491.html#slide=2023046 http://miamitimesonline.com/gun-buy-back-operation-to-be-held-at-three-local-churches/ http://wlrn.org/post/what-miamis-regalado-and-other-us-mayors-say-will-ease-gun-violence Fairly accurate? bears repeating. 
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i was one of the ones quoted here is the rest of the "civil conversation"
Seanc_wa deleting comments and blocking people. you made a bad move. enjoy the consequences. 8:02pm Code Red Firearms Sean ARFCOM IS less than 1% our business. Deleting rhetorical banter helps with the housekeeping. you permission to repost. 8:05pm Seanc_wa ah ok. then im sure you will not even notice. good luck joining the other side and helping disarm the citizens. and promoting theft. 8:09pm Code Red Firearms We help disarm criminals and arm thousands of law abiding citizens and agencies each month. I didn't know armed crimnals were so popular at arfcom? 8:11pm Seanc_wa why would a criminal turn in a stolen gun for a measly $25? sounds more like encouragement to go out and steal a gun and turn it in... you can argue all you want i know you will feel the repercussions of this "business" move... 8:12pm Code Red Firearms You are promoting a THEORY that a criminal would go and seek out guns citywide in order to get a walmart giftcard ? aren't you more content to know that the more immediate problem which is the armed crackhead no longer has a gun ? and that an owner is getting called about his 38 S&W getting recovered ? 8:16pm Seanc_wa no questions asked? a criminal just got away with stealing a gun... in fact instead of prosecuting him you rewarded him... good job. 8:38pm Code Red Firearms Criminal just turned over a gun and the owner received gun back one less armed thug! But again you BARF.Com guys seem to prefer the armed criminals .... It's a free country. I've spent enough time on this. Back to making and shipping lowers. 8:39pm Seanc_wa you said yourself you dont care what happens to the guns... btw "barf.com" can reach pretty far in the gun community. ill set a reminder in my calender to check up on you in a year or so... should be eye opening. 8:54pm Code Red Firearms You are correct I do not care what happens to the gun after its recovered. It's not my job to tell the cops that they must protect life and PROPERTY and yes that incudes a recovered gun. Sean BARFCOM is not even a blip on our traffic analyticals. So you would rather this business close it's doors and we lay off numerous workers in various cities because the blow hards on a forum don't like it that I want less stolent guns on the streets when i am out with my kids ? Sean, unless you are one of those guys holed up in a bunker waiting for the black vans and helicopters overhead, please engage the brain and allow yourself to ponder what a few hundred criminals with guns represent to a city that is already aflood with violent crime. |
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wow
i really do hope that ar15 members cancel their orders. supporting a guy like this is what has lead to this fiasco that we are in right now. This guy supports a gun grabbing mayor. show how you feel about this with your money and pull it via a charge back... |
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That is simply brutal, I couldn't force myself to read past the first page... Odd behavior from a place that sell firearms. ETA- I read more, it just keeps getting worse. 
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WHO IS CODE RED FIREARMS????
Where to begin? Tony Vega started as a very small firearm/ gun range called Miami guns. Where he used to offer or give away concealed weapon license or better yet, his autograph for only $20.0. The thing is he never gave you a class at all. What he would do is give you a certificate and tell you the 3 NRA Rules. After about a 1 ½ year, he sells Miami Guns, failing to inform the buyers that the building and the city were soon going into mitigation against Miami Guns for noise. Mr.Vega is so smart and full of himself that he posted on his Code Red Facebook page of how soon they were going to have to close Miami Guns. His new venture, Code Red Firearms is only .6 miles away from his old location (Miami Guns) and for those that missed it, I said .6 miles. So yes, less than a mile down the road. 90% to 95% Percent of the things that he post on his facebook page are either fake or straight up lies. To give you an example, the pictures of his facility as he calls it all looks different. The Lowers are manufacturer by Del-Ton Arms and not on his facility as he claims and better yet, he does not have a corporate office in NC howerver, Del-Ton Arms is in NC and what about the picture that he posted February 4, 2013 of the “Soon to be the new digs...” ? I guess that If you lie enough, you actually start to believe your own lies. To me, the funniest was a picture he posted of his state of the art range. He supposedly had just submitted plans to the city to build a range on an existing building. The plans called for a basement shooting range??? I ask myself, how is he going to dig under an existing building without demolishing or is it going to be an underwater Shooting Range? Really in South Florida? I can keep going on and on but what for, I think you get the idea. |
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