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9/17/2012 3:14:32 PM EDT
9/17/2012 3:19:44 PM EDT
[#1]
Que?
9/17/2012 3:21:12 PM EDT
[#2]
Thousands of dollars those $0.50 parts are worth.  $9K, IIRC
9/17/2012 3:22:48 PM EDT
[#3]
What am I looking at?
9/17/2012 3:23:07 PM EDT
[#4]
I make those can opener tweezers with a booger hook all the time. Sell them for a quarter in the gumball machines at gun shows.


I'll give ya $50  for it?
9/17/2012 3:23:21 PM EDT
[#5]
Whoa.
 
9/17/2012 3:23:53 PM EDT
[#6]
Haha, that would have been bad! Tossing a RLL in the garbage. Especially when the NFA goes looking for it!
9/17/2012 3:24:30 PM EDT
[#7]
That wouldn't work at my house, it would still be thrown out.

It is amazing what some people will throw away.  Tax forms in the process of being filled out come to mind.  "Papers?, yes there were some old papers on that desk.  I threw them away."

Or, pistol boxes which have been saved for decades, and have become $100 items all by themselves.  "Good news, I threw out all those old cardboard boxes you had on that shelf.  Now you have more storeage space."

So, a lightning link wouldn't last long.  Good thing I don't have one, it would be embarassing to have to tell the ATF it had been thrown away.
9/17/2012 3:24:40 PM EDT
[#8]
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What am I looking at?


Tuning fork and broken can opener.
9/17/2012 3:43:12 PM EDT
[#9]
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What am I looking at?




Some kind of DIAS?
9/17/2012 3:46:17 PM EDT
[#10]
whoah  
 
9/17/2012 3:47:41 PM EDT
[#11]
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What am I looking at?




Some kind of DIAS?


Lightning Link ... with the implication that it's in the NFA registry
9/17/2012 3:53:34 PM EDT
[#12]
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What am I looking at?


Early prototype of a P-38.
9/18/2012 7:37:54 AM EDT
[#13]
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What am I looking at?


AMERICAN ingenuity!

9/18/2012 7:43:16 AM EDT
[#14]
Thats pretty darn cool.
9/18/2012 7:44:43 AM EDT
[#15]
Is this the new "boating accident"? I need to stay current with these things.
9/18/2012 7:45:29 AM EDT
[#16]
What the hell is that?
9/18/2012 8:55:48 AM EDT
[#17]
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What the hell is that?


It's a device that came out many many years ago- slips into a STOCK ar15, providing full auto fire- very simple, very effective. I think it sold in Shotgun News for around $25- even then the cheapies could get a paper template to make their own.

9/18/2012 9:24:58 AM EDT
[#18]
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What am I looking at?


Drop in FA parts. Barely enough room for a serial number.
9/18/2012 9:26:35 AM EDT
[#19]
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What the hell is that?


It's a device that came out many many years ago- slips into a STOCK ar15 [made to SP-1 spec], providing full auto fire- very simple, very effective. I think it sold in Shotgun News for around $25- even then the cheapies could get a paper template to make their own.



Clarified it for you
9/18/2012 9:27:11 AM EDT
[#20]
Neat. I wish the 2nd amendment applied to my state.
9/18/2012 9:28:05 AM EDT
[#21]
Is this in Brazil or the states?
9/18/2012 9:28:26 AM EDT
[#22]
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What the hell is that?


It's a device that came out many many years ago- slips into a STOCK ar15, providing full auto fire- very simple, very effective. I think it sold in Shotgun News for around $25- even then the cheapies could get a paper template to make their own.



It worked in a plain old AR15? I did not know that.
9/18/2012 9:46:13 AM EDT
[#23]
they were 40.00 in 1985.
9/18/2012 9:50:35 AM EDT
[#24]
nice bottle opener!
9/18/2012 9:51:55 AM EDT
[#25]
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What am I looking at?




Some kind of DIAS?


Lightning Link ... with the implication that it's in the NFA registry


Or not his picture.
9/18/2012 9:52:56 AM EDT
[#26]
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What am I looking at?



If you had one of those here in the US and no paperwork you would be looking at about 10 years.
9/18/2012 9:54:33 AM EDT
[#27]
For those that don't know...

http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html
9/18/2012 9:55:16 AM EDT
[#28]
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What the hell is that?


It's a device that came out many many years ago- slips into a STOCK ar15 [made to SP-1 spec], providing full auto fire- very simple, very effective. I think it sold in Shotgun News for around $25- even then the cheapies could get a paper template to make their own.



Clarified it for you


Well, that's all we had back then
Edit- bought my first COLT SP-1 AR15 at a local discount store in 1976 for $425.00! (Was a lot of money back then)

9/18/2012 10:02:19 AM EDT
[#29]
It's kind of sad, defeating and unbelievable that a LL or a DIAS have become such a rare commodity that we have to discuss their dearth.

When $0.50 of metal becomes a multi-thousand dollar purchase, something is seriously fucked up.

I long for a country with a Constitution, and a bill of rights.

At a point, not that long ago, we could just go buy full auto guns with nuisance tax, before the tax, we could just buy them. Having lived in 2 other countries, and seeing the current admin, I can say I feel safer with MORE people owning FA firearms.

9/18/2012 10:31:49 AM EDT
[#30]
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What the hell is that?


It's a device that came out many many years ago- slips into a STOCK ar15, providing full auto fire- very simple, very effective. I think it sold in Shotgun News for around $25- even then the cheapies could get a paper template to make their own.



It worked in a plain old AR15? I did not know that.


Until Colt changed the bolt carrier so the notch at the rear wouldn't trigger the LL.

If you wonder why the bottom of your bolt carrier is open from firing pin hammer area to the rear instead of just having a large oval for the hammer to move in, with the rest being a steel cylinder, that's why.


Notice the difference on the left side of each bolt:



top: standard ar15  Does NOT trip LL, notice the width is not constricted at any point.
middle: colt SP1 (trips LL)
bottom: M16  (trips LL)
9/18/2012 10:38:57 AM EDT
[#31]
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For those that don't know...

http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html


Am I the only one paranoid enough that I might not bookmark this link, as much as I want to?
9/18/2012 10:41:24 AM EDT
[#32]
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For those that don't know...

http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html


Am I the only one paranoid enough that I might not bookmark this link, as much as I want to?



Then use Google.  Hell, it's my server and I don't wear a tinfoil hat
9/18/2012 10:44:19 AM EDT
[#33]
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For those that don't know...

http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html


Am I the only one paranoid enough that I might not bookmark this link, as much as I want to?



Then use Google.  Hell, it's my server and I don't wear a tinfoil hat


thats not what you said on your forum!

9/18/2012 10:45:28 AM EDT
[#34]
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For those that don't know...

http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html


Am I the only one paranoid enough that I might not bookmark this link, as much as I want to?


Then use Google.  Hell, it's my server and I don't wear a tinfoil hat


Ha.  I didn't even notice your user name matches the domain.  Cool site.

Doesn't matter now anyway.  What has been visited cannot be unvisited.  
9/18/2012 10:46:22 AM EDT
[#35]
I'm honestly shocked at the number of people on this site who have no idea what a lightning link is.
9/18/2012 10:47:11 AM EDT
[#36]
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For those that don't know...

http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html


Am I the only one paranoid enough that I might not bookmark this link, as much as I want to?


Sheesh.  Go discreet if you must, it's just information.  Site's been up what, a decade now?
9/18/2012 10:52:05 AM EDT
[#37]
What no shoe string taped up saying do not throw out?     I'm not sure if any are registered.
9/18/2012 11:10:35 AM EDT
[#38]
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Is this in Brazil or the states?


Since they speak English there, it must be Brazil.



9/18/2012 11:17:23 AM EDT
[#39]
Okay, so I just double-checked my garbage, and there were no machineguns in it.  
9/18/2012 11:22:02 AM EDT
[#40]
QB:  I went poking around and saw on your SBR page you had Bishop's SBR.  I remember when he did the paracord wrap on that sucker.  That had to be almost a decade ago, if not longer...
9/18/2012 11:24:48 AM EDT
[#41]
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QB:  I went poking around and saw on your SBR page you had Bishop's SBR.  I remember when he did the paracord wrap on that sucker.  That had to be almost a decade ago, if not longer...



Yea, that site has not been updated in a very long time.  Much of it is ancient history now but I use the server to upload pics etc so I have not taken it down or tried to move to an easier system to update.  Quarterbore.net is where anything new is posted.
9/18/2012 11:33:48 AM EDT
[#42]
Nah, just a little ARFCOM Nostalgia kicking in.  Hell, I remember when LTC Santose would post, for Pete's sake.