Aero Precision stripped lowers group buy
News, Guns ·Saturday March 6, 2010 @ 19:46 EST (link)
KA of the Microsoft gun DL coordinated a purchase of Aero Precision AR-15 lower receivers; all told we bought about 50 as a group. (The lower receiver of a firearm is the part with the serial number and the part which is regulated as a "firearm" by the state. "Stripped" means you get just the received—no trigger assembly or other parts. Since those parts aren't regulated, they can be bought online and shipped directly to one's home to assemble a working rifle.) I bought a couple as investments (we got them for about $60 apiece; they're probably already resalable for $80, maybe $100 soon); I'll hang on to them for a while in case anti-gun legislation comes down from Obozo and his cronies and makes prices go up ridiculously.
I also picked up some Federal .22LR and some 9mm hydrashoks (as personal defense ammo, provided my guns like it, switching from Gold Dot hollowpoints) and a couple Magpul "P-Mag" AR-15 magazines with windows. I was going to go to Cabela's, since their store is only another 20 minutes down the highway, but Surplus Ammo's price for the ammo I was going to get was already cheaper than Cabela's sale price, so that saved me a trip. Last time I was there to consider a shotgun they fell through on the advertised price, anyway (didn't have any, or tried to claim it was a different model).
Surplus Ammo, the store where we got the lowers, is down in Lakewood, about an hour away (they also have a booth at the WAC gun shows, but they only sell ammunition at the shows—probably because they already do a brisk business and don't want to hold it up with NICS checks for selling firearms, or don't want to devote shelf space to firearms and accessories that might have lower profit margins or not sell as well?)
Traffic on the way back was rather miserable both on I-5N and WA-520E, but there was no sign of an accident—must have been just volume and lousy driving.
Honey's Aunt Linda is coming home from hospital, but this is not because she is coming home healed; she has been given one to six months. And now Honey's dad, who has been spending a lot of time taking care of Linda, is in hospital with chest pains, not good with a history of heart problems. We pray the doctors will be able to take care of the problem quickly and that he will be restored to full health.
I finished volume one of Philip K. Dick's selected stories on audio book in the car Friday, but I can't find an equivalent book to add to GoodReads (maybe there isn't one), although I did put a hold on volume two.
Books finished: Where Keynes Went Wrong.
