I’ve had occasion to use a Serbu BFG-50 .50 bolt gun for testing in my previous life developing and testing vehicle armor. They are great folks, provide great tech support and build a great gun. Full of greatness all around. They posted these words on their Facebook wall and I’d say that most companies in the firearms and accessory business echo their sentiment. Remember, whatever has the serial number is the gun. In most cases (AR-style guns) this is a lower receiver, but not always. If you don’t already have one of the dreaded “assault weapons” and can’t afford a full gun, but want one, try to get a mil-spec lower. That’s the gun as far as the law is concerned.
Tampa, FL—January 3, 2013: Folks, it’s tragic that a bunch of very young children were murdered by a deranged maniac with a gun. It’s worse that instead of truly addressing a problem that has nothing to do with “assault weapons”, the proposed fix from Congress is a ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines. Please note that the killer’s AR-15 rifle, which was one of the three firearms used to kill the children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary school, wasn’t even considered an assault weapon under CT state law. Regardless, with the typical “never let a tragedy to go waste” mentality, Senator Diane Feinstein is set to introduce her flagship “assault weapon” ban legislation today. We’ve read the proposed features of this bill, and it’s a dream for gun-grabbers, a nightmare for anyone else. Adding what could amount to tens of millions of new firearms to the National Firearms Act registry (which was started in 1934) would be a virtually impossible task for the BATFE. They currently have around 170,000 machine guns to track in that registry, and as anyone who has been in this business for any length of time can tell you, it’s a far from perfect database. Add to that massive non-compliance, oh, and the fact that no criminals would ever turn in the “tools of their trade” and you have a recipe for a giant snafu that will accomplish nothing. Well, except that it already has accomplished something and that’s to generate huge, record sales for anyone producing anything that’s destined to be banned. While we have yet to see if we’re “lucky” enough to have a gun which has actually made the list, we know that our BFG-50A will be banned because of features. And our AR-15 receivers, which we just started producing barely a month ago, are, of course, to be banned.
The bottom line is that just like the situation in 2003 where we were facing a ban on the .50 BMG rifle in California, we’re working our butts off to produce as many BFG-50A rifles as we can. And just like then, we will be producing LOTS of bare receivers, as well. The price of a bare BFG-50A receiver is $1250 retail. Should this ban become law this is the cheapest and quickest way to be in legal possession of a BFG-50A before it takes effect. The receiver can be sent back to us for completion in the future. I personally think the bill is far too far-reaching and will never pass as written. But I think the gun-grabbers will get something passed, so we’re playing it safe just in case. Please call your congressmen and senators and tell them to vote against this mess!! Thanks to my current customers for keeping me at a job I love for the past 16 years and to my future customers for keeping it going!
Mark Serbu – Livin’ the dream! 😉
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Let me get this straight… It’s WORSE that the government might consider banning something that this guy happens to make his living off of than the killing of innocent children at sandy hook? I love this site… I know it has an agenda but for the love of God will you please read and think about what you are endorsing?
I don’t even remotely understand how you got from Point A to Point B.
You’ve gotta be trolling.
Honestly not trolling… Just amazed that someone who is tranparently campaigning for their own business as well as rights and freedoms can get away with a sentence like:
‘Folks, it’s tragic that a bunch of very young children were murdered by a deranged maniac with a gun. IT’S WORSE that instead of truly addressing a problem that has nothing to do with “assault weapons”, the proposed fix from Congress is a ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines’
And no one blinks an eye. It’s not worse that congress might consider banning assault weapons, however they might be categorized. It’s the wrong move and won’t prevent future Sandy hooks… this much is correct. But this dude plainly does not give a crap about any of the issues involved (especially the kids, who he dismisses in the first sentence) except guns and his freedom to make a profit. It’s just in really bad taste.
yo mike relax, you sound like every other bleeding heart liberal, what happened is yes a tragedy but the agenda of the democrats is not going to stop that from happening again unless more reasonable ideas are put into place, but it will put a lot of companies out of business, “americans loosing jobs” and its just sad to see so many law abiding citizens loose there right to purchase firearms of there liking because these idiots say so and it shouldnt be that way
With all due respect Mike D., this article was posted at 23:06 on a Thursday evening with the first response, yours, occurring roughly two hours later. I would not be so quick to judge that “no one blinks an eye.” Rather, I would take into consideration that perhaps the amount of people who have read and seen this article is very low. It is during the work week and I’m sure many people have other things to do.
Regarding Mr. Serbu’s letter, I find it perfectly legitimate to consider that the exploitation of a tragedy (or crisis) for political gain and to push an ideology to be worse than the tragedy itself. Such exploitation arguably cheapens the lives lost, reducing the individuals in question from victims of a mass shooting to impersonal statistics used to further an agenda. I might not agree with his judgement that it IS indeed worse than the tragedy itself, but I can understand his point of view, and in my opinion, that, the dehumanization is a tragedy in itself and is unethical.
That said, one has to ask what value system does one use to judge the cost of a life, the impact of being wounded instead of killed in such a shooting, the economic impact from a business closing down and jobs being lost, and the importance of an idea enshrined into the Constitution, amongst other things. Is this actually possible, or is it a fool’s errand? I don’t have an answer for this complex question, much like I don’t have an answer to the complex question of how to prevent future mass shootings from happening. However, I believe that taking actions that have limited to no effect at the cost of civil liberties in order to gain political capital is tasteless.
Furthermore, as somebody cognizant of the WWII internment of American citizens of Japanese descent, the Hollywood Blacklist of the mid 20th century, and the Red Scares, I am well aware that the court of public opinion is neither unbiased nor just nor perfect, but must be kept in check with evidence taken from objective, verifiable reality.
I know that you’re upset about this incident, and it truly is a terrible thing, but try and get some perspective.
According to the last statistics I could find, there were 33,963 road fatalities in the USA in 1999 – almost 93 per day. By your logic, cars should be banned, but no one blinks an eye about that.
Or how about the fact that there have been over 60,000 people killed in the Syrian revolution (over 2,300 of which were children), but hey, they aren’t nice, little American kids, so no one blinks an eye about that either. I doubt you’re too inclined to demand that something is done about that either.
I could site hundreds of other incidents about the tragic loss of multiple lives, but again, no one will blink an eye about those, unless of course they are directly affected by them. The fact of the matter is that the world is a fucked-up place and after a period of grieving, the world carries on.
Mike, you misunderstood what Serbu was trying to say; perhaps he could have worded it better. If you re-read Serbu’s post, you should see that he wasn’t saying that the ban was worse than the murders. He wasn’t comparing them. What Serbu was saying is that the murders were an enormous evil, and the ban is another evil we now have to deal with. So Serbu is saying that instead of lessening the evil of the murders, Congress has made the total problem worse.
Almost all of the killings occur at the hands of somebody with mental issues, that’s the main problem and nobody is willing to accept it.
Actually, I don’t disagree with the idea that a government attack on our Constitutionally guaranteed, Supreme Court affirmed individual rights would be worse than the murder of 20 some-odd kids. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died over the last 230+ years protecting these rights–how are their many, many sacrifices judged to be less terrible than this latest tragedy?
Mike, I tend to believe that if the government found that Lanza got his idea off the Internet, and that they now were taking steps to dismantle the Web here in the US, or at least severely restrict who could post on it and/or limit available content you’d be up in arms. Likewise, if in the interest of public safety the government decided it could search you, your vehicle and your home whenever, however it wanted with no warrant and no PC, you’d be falling all over yourself to protest and resist this move. All the rights in the Bill of Rights are equal–how about you consider trying to protect them all instead of cherry-picking your favorites?
It wasn’t an AR platform rifle in the trunk (which was locked). it was a shotgun. Watch the unloading video. The media just went on a good one and now the rest of us are just rewriting history.
Right on tr … I can’t find a single mention of that FACT anywhere in the media anymore.
The weapons used inside the school were a Glock 10mm and a Sig 9mm, not the AR.
I still haven’t heard anymore detail about the second arrest behind the school … nor a correction or follow up.
This stinks, too many interests all over this … and the poor families of these innocent children and teachers that are having to deal with this tragedy being exploited for an agenda makes me sick.