ARe we having fun?
You bet we are!
After many frustrating months of searching, calling every gun shop in a 20 mile radius, putting my name on waiting lists (including a bad experience at STS Guns in Folsom where they called me to say an AR had just come in, told them I’d be right down, then they sold it to someone else during the 30 minutes it took me to get there!!), I finally own an AR-15! It was my first purchase from Gunbroker.com and was pretty painless, even though it took a couple of unsuccessful bidding attempts before I landed one.
It’s a Smith & Wesson M&P15 5.56 Sport, California legal, which means the magazine only holds 10 rounds and can only be released by pressing a recessed button with a bullet tip or other pointy object. It doesn’t have the usual dust cover or forward assist that most ARs do, but I don’t plan on exposing it to desert sandstorms. It’ll be a range gun – and for when the zombie apocalypse occurs, of course.
Looks sweet