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Posted: 2/24/2012 5:04:26 PM EDT
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A friend of mine is doing some work for a guy and took some guns in trade for some of the labor cost. One of the guns is an AR with a Sendra corp lower and the upper looks like a DPMS panther. Ive only seen the gun in cell phone pics so i cant say for sure what it is.. The guy he got it from use to shoot match with it.
Ive done a litte research on the lower and long story short i found that the guy making them ran into trouble with ATF and sold out to Bushmaster. lowers with a circle rollmarks are post ban and lowers with out the circle are pre ban. I saw a pre ban Sendra lower with LPK for sale online, dude was asking $420. Im just curious and wanting to see what the hive knows about them. Thanks Al The worst cell phone pic ever, lol cal. 5.56 mm Barrington, IL XM 15E2 
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| Sendra had decent lowers and many were converted to full auto back in the day; lots by BFI. The owners changed names several times and they usually just took the same letters and made new names out of them. They did get in some trouble with the ATF; I seem to recall they sold a bunch of stuff to the Branch Davidians or something. |
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Here's a thread I found with some info: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_123/341961_.html
I had forgotten the history of SENDRA, but I did recall that their legal issues well predated the Waco incident. Anyway, I have a classic purple SENDRA lower on my CAR. Works great for me. Aside from some people having an issue with the color, I think they were relatively well regarded. |
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Sendra had decent lowers and many were converted to full auto back in the day; lots by BFI. The owners changed names several times and they usually just took the same letters and made new names out of them. They did get in some trouble with the ATF; I seem to recall they sold a bunch of stuff to the Branch Davidians or something. Street rumors are that one of those name changes was NESARD. Thats SENDRA with groups of letters turned around. Nesard was a parts supplier that was around for quite awhile. |
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Sendra had decent lowers and many were converted to full auto back in the day; lots by BFI. The owners changed names several times and they usually just took the same letters and made new names out of them. They did get in some trouble with the ATF; I seem to recall they sold a bunch of stuff to the Branch Davidians or something. Street rumors are that one of those name changes was NESARD. Thats SENDRA with groups of letters turned around. Nesard was a parts supplier that was around for quite awhile. More than street rumor. Nesard was one of the largest suppliers of AR parts in the early days. They used to have a large ad in nearly every issue of Shotgun News back in the day. Nesard and Sendra were anagrams of the owners name, which I believe was Drasen . If memory serves me, Nesard was shut down after being implicated in the sale of stolen government rifle parts. At the time Sendra receivers were being made, there were very few choices available. Quality, for the most part, was nowhere near what it is today. Most manufacturers used forgings that were reverse-engineered from milspec parts. I bought an early Sendra receiver in the mid '80s. It was an out-of-spec POS that sits in a box with other unserviceable parts to this day. |
Nesard, Sendra, Drasen is still doing business to this day as M&A Parts. Every once in a while somebody has to choke the guy out at a gun show. 
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