'Sons of Guns'

[jimswift]

I searched, I don't know if there is a thread but I caught this show last night and it was pretty entertaining.

They were commissioned or hired to manufacture an internal silencer for an AK-47 in this episode I saw.

Damn awesome piece when they were done.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/sons-of-guns/

"Sons of Guns showcases one of America's most skilled and creative gun works, Red Jacket Firearms, and its founder, Will Hayden."

[midnight rambler]

I could only stomach about 15 minutes of that show. Yeah, I watched it 'cause I was curious, but it turned out to be a load of malarkey. Everything about it was lame - everything. The guy who owns this operation portrays himself as some genius. He makes like he's the master of suppressor technology. He's not. I've seen a more quiet can on a .30-'06 20 years ago. Ain't nothing special about him or what he builds. There are by far a lot more talented and more knowledgeable people out there, e.g. Mike at The Firing Line in Oklahoma (on the episode in the OP the owner of the business makes out like he's the #1 AK guru in the country, and anyone who knows AKs knows better). He's so full of shit his eyes are brown.

Don't waste your time. It's not even close to entertaining unless really, really bad, contrived acting amuses you.

ETA: I find it very interesting that in that show mentioned in the OP a Class II manufacturer is talking about selling full auto suppressed AKs in bulk (an order of 5-10 AKs) to some mysterious middleman (who's talking about re-selling them to some *unidentified buyer(s)*) when the ONLY market for full auto weapons in the states manufactured subsequent to the machinegun ban in May of '86 are the government and the military. I seriously doubt that the govt. or the military is going to be purchasing integrally suppressed FA AKs when there are far more tacticool options available which better suit the particular *needs* of the oppressive forces. And if by chance some .gov agency DID want integrally suppressed FA AKs they'd go straight to the source and not deal with some middleman, and I also seriously doubt they'd have some redneck in the swamp in Podunkville manufacturing such an item for them.

[midnight rambler]

Oh, and FWIW, if one *really* wants to torture test an AK one takes the dust cover off, fills the action with toothpaste, THEN throws wet sand on top of that before replacing the dust cover. Merely burying an AK under a little bit of sand doesn't mean diddlely-squat.

[basplaer]

I caught part of an episode where they mated a SA shotgun to an AR so swat can use a breaching round and then not have to switch firearms when serving no-knock warrants at the wrong location. Well, maybe not, but they were marketing the thing to a bunch o' bubbas. The final thing looked like, well, 2 dudes f**kin'

[jimswift]

lol...dang man, they didn't seem (in the little bit that I saw) all that bad a folk.

[Gangsta99]

The show pisses me off a whole bunch because of how they act like everything they are doing in each episode is some new groundbreaking thing when it comes to firearms. The reality is most of what they have been doing has already been done by a way better gunsmith shop in the past.

Show doesn't do justice when it comes to firearm rights either. Gonna make even more of the public think that only dumb hick rednecks have guns in the US.

[jimswift]

Gonna make even more of the public think that only dumb hick rednecks have guns in the US.

Have seen only half an episode, but I could see that angle playing out.