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texanron wrote:Thanks to a couple of you guys in this thread I had to Google "SBR". Just added one of those to my ever growing list of guns to buy/build!! I need a raise.

And since I'm already going to want to set up a trust for ONE SBR, might as well do a couple....and maybe a suppressor or two....

I need a raise too.

pbwalker wrote:I've got one and its a great truck gun. The buffer tube "acts" as a sort of stock, and it's easier to get one than it is a SBR (in the time and money department).

interesting. So can you get any kind of cheek weld to line up the sights? Just looking at them, seems like you'd have to break your neck to get your eye low enough.

If that buffer tube is usable as a stock, then the equation changes dramatically, at least when it comes to my opinion on the matter, which is worth at least what you paid for it....

I can kind of see the interest in an AR or AK pistol for use as a vehicle gun or similar. One of my eventual projects is going to be a romanian draco that I SBR and throw a stock on.

That being said, it seems that AR pistols don't gain you even as much as an AK pistol. You've got the short barrel, but you still have that stupid buffer tube sticking out of the back of the gun, making it bulkier.

If you're willing to go the SBR route, I could see a lot of usefulness out of an AR or AK build with a short barrel. As just a pistol though, both seem a lot more like range toys only. Just my .02 on it.