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Gun Control & RKBA

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)

8. You don't have to file down the firing pin or striker

Reply to DanTex (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 04:01 PM

Jun 2012

All you have to do is buy a spare and change them out. Under $10 for a new one for some guns.

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/cid=10677/s_o=Price+%28Ascending%29/Products/Firing-Pins

Hell you can make one, if you have the machine tools and are knowledgeable.

But why go through all that? All that will happen is that criminals will switch to revolvers.

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And yet the NRA crowd will insist that concealed carry laws don't result in more armed criminals. DanTex Jun 2012 #1

If you don't like the current due process, work to change the law. ManiacJoe Jun 2012 #3

How do you order a new firing pin? ileus Jun 2012 #7

You don't have to file down the firing pin or striker MicaelS Jun 2012 #8

Some will switch to revolvers, others will switch out the pins. DanTex Jun 2012 #9

given that gejohnston Jun 2012 #10

Well, you have to start somewhere. DanTex Jun 2012 #11

Ok gotta ask sarisataka Jun 2012 #2

I don't think CC permits make it legal to carry guns with drugs. Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #4

That is why the two objects are carried by two different people. ManiacJoe Jun 2012 #6

Hmmmmmm... Marinedem Jun 2012 #5

Welcome to DU. You make a valid point ... spin Jun 2012 #12