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Posted: 3/22/2012 5:29:57 PM EDT
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I apologize in advance––I'm sure this has been addressed but I could not find it in any of the stickies or with a search.
If my AR SBR lower breaks am I SOL or can I send it back to the manufacturer for repair? Should I pick a higher quality lower to SBR and what would be the best choice? |
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What do you mean Breaks? as long as the Ser. Number is intact it can be fixed. Quoted: I apologize in advance––I'm sure this has been addressed but I could not find it in any of the stickies or with a search. If my AR SBR lower breaks am I SOL or can I send it back to the manufacturer for repair? Should I pick a higher quality lower to SBR and what would be the best choice? |
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Anything can be repaired. Whether the manufacturer will work on it will probably depend if you bought it as an SBR, or did it yourself on a Form 1.
In the case of no warranty, or the company's gone, or you rolled your own on Form 1, any FFL (not just a SOT) can take it in to work on it, and return it directly to you after it's repaired. There is no physical difference between the quality of a factory SBR lower, and factory non-SBR lower, so pick one you like, and pick a factory offering if the warranty on the SBR part is important to you. |
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By breaking i mean catastrophic failure of say, an aero precision or spikes lower. I just meant will my $200 be gone if the lower has a failure that can not be repaired but rather needs replaced. Maybe. The original mfg can replace even an NFA lower, if you bought it from them as a factory NFA firearm. With machineguns, the new replacement is considered a post-sample, but that wouldn't negatively affect a domestic SBR's status. |
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How many catastrophic lower failures do you see out there? Honest question. Just seems like a pretty paranoid thing to consider. Right on, I was just told by a friend to consider that so I wondered if everyone was using billet lowers or what. Forgings are actually stronger than billets FWIW. |
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How many catastrophic lower failures do you see out there? Honest question. Just seems like a pretty paranoid thing to consider. Right on, I was just told by a friend to consider that so I wondered if everyone was using billet lowers or what. Forgings are actually stronger than billets FWIW. thanks for that. Let me get this paperwork started! |
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As I understand it, the Original Manufacturer can replace a badly damaged Lower/Whatever with a new one by simply transferring the old Serial Number onto a replacement. Originals are then completely destroyed.
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By breaking i mean catastrophic failure of say, an aero precision or spikes lower. I just meant will my $200 be gone if the lower has a failure that can not be repaired but rather needs replaced. Maybe. The original mfg can replace even an NFA lower, if you bought it from them as a factory NFA firearm. With machineguns, the new replacement is considered a post-sample, but that wouldn't negatively affect a domestic SBR's status. But I may be wrong. |
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As I understand it, the Original Manufacturer can replace a badly damaged Lower/Whatever with a new one by simply transferring the old Serial Number onto a replacement. Originals are then completely destroyed.
Maybe. The original mfg can replace even an NFA lower, if you bought it from them as a factory NFA firearm. With machineguns, the new replacement is considered a post-sample, but that wouldn't negatively affect a domestic SBR's status. But I may be wrong. With machineguns, you're wrong. ATF closed that window in about 2002/2003. |
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