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This is a follow up of the post Disappointing AR9 news.

For those coming late to the festivities, I acquired from different sources a 9mm KVP upper and a Spike’s Tactical lower (Glock mag compatible) and they refused to mate properly.

On a rare attack of common sense, I decided to email both Kaw Valley Precision and Spike’s Tactical to get some answer. First of all, both companies were exceedingly fast on replying to my query for which I am happy and encouraged since past experiences with other companies have been utterly disgraceful.

Ian Reel from KVP was upfront and stated that he had not seen many lowers like mine.  I won’t deny I would have been a tad incredulous, but reader @Snarkyposters from X (thankyouthankyou) had already pointed me to several AR9 sources of information and I formed the suspicion that this platform is a cluster flock of seagulls.

And then I got the email from John Dowhy of Spike’s Tactical which gave me the final answer to my question(s):

Hi Miguel,

Our Glock-style 9mm Lower has a LRBHO bracket that runs along the side of the magwell. Our 9mm Uppers have a relief cut (in the picture attached) to accommodate for that bracket. Other brands of Uppers often do not fit with our Lower because of just what you highlighted. The Upper hits the bracket and cannot close.

There is no Milspec for 9mm AR’s so mixing brands can be problematic. We have had customers make a relief cut themselves in other brands of Uppers or abandon the other brand and use our Upper.

Bingo! Let me show again the photo of my upper:

The arrow points to the point of unwanted contact between upper an lower and the upper does not have the relief cut.

Mystery solved. Problem? Not so much.

There is no Milspec for 9mm AR’s so mixing brands can be problematic.

Those are words you need to live by if you want to build your AR9.

Right now, I see myself with two AR9 half builds and nowhere to go unless I decide to sink more money in the project which I am not happy to do. I may go with a regular 5,56 lower and one of those adapters for the magwell, but the good ones cost almost as much as a dedicated lower.

I’ll just hit the pause button for a while till some smarts come to me.

The Left is killing gun control.

Yes, they want it and want to implement it, but their actions in other areas are driving people away from supporting it.

Californians are buying up guns after Border Patrol starts dumping thousands of migrants on streets

Customers packed Cory Gautereaux’s small gun store northeast of San Diego on a recent Friday afternoon.

Many of the people buying pistols at Firearms Unlimited California said they were concerned about the massive number of migrants being released onto the local streets after the area became a hub for the crisis at the border — which is just 25 miles from El Cajon, a Southern California suburb of 105,000 people.

Roughly 125,000 migrants have been released onto the streets in the San Diego area since September, which has been unsettling for Firearms Unlimited California owner Cory Gautereaux and his customers.

The US Border Patrol has begun busing migrants who claim asylum into the community and releasing them onto the streets, he said.

“That’s driven business to us,” he added.

Local Sharie Finn told The Post that the border issue “1,000%” plays a role in her decision to buy a gun, pointing to the Glock pistol in her bag.

El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells acknowledges his residents don’t feel safe because of the flood of illegal border crossers in his city.

“We see the massive amounts of violence that’s happening, a lot from the immigrant situation, but a lot from the homeless situation as well,” Wells told The Post, adding: “People are frightened and I do believe they’re arming themselves more.”

Gun control, like open borders sounds wonderful to Leftists in gated communities where they don’t suffer consequences.

For the average person, watching illegal immigrants bring crime to their communities where the police have been defunded or hamstrung, they want guns to protect themselves.

California Leftists will still push gun control, but the average Californian is learning how important having a gun to defend yourself actually is.

This will happen all over the country as the cloistered Left makes things worse.

I grew up listening to my parents’ music. I later started listening to WCMS 99.9FM. “Almost Perfect Radio” Their original was “Western and Country Music Station”.

Most of the music my parents owned had been transferred to reel-to-reel tape. This is actually a real problem. There were a couple of “albums” that I wish I knew the names of.

When I went to University, I was exposed to different music. Mostly because, being a collage town, they had no country music radio station. If I would rather not listen to the latest pop music, I had to find my own.

Then a fantastic thing happened, CD’s. Because the CD was not harmed when played, the CD emporium would let you listen to a CD before you purchased it. And boy did I listen to a lot. I purchased even more.

When I divorced my first wife, that CD collection was a sticking point. I ripped all of those CDs. All 500+ of them.

And then google ate it. GRRRRR

Not having the CDs in front of me, I’ve had to remember albums I used to listen to. The other night I listened to the London stage recording of ‘Cats’. Why? Because it was one of those albums I used to own.

So here is a song from a group I use to listen to:

Sadly, more and more that is getting to be a shitty wishful thinking.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A woman was kidnapped, brutally beaten and raped by a man at a Nashville apartment on Friday, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.

Carl Rouse Jr., 49, is charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and rape, among other charges.

On April 12, Hermitage patrol officers responded to 644 Glastonbury Road to a reported assault at Glastonbury Woods Apartments. The victim was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where police interviewed her. The victim told police she and friends were hanging out at an apartment when Rouse entered and began yelling at them.

She said he took her phone and wallet and began punching her in her head repeatedly, saying she was not leaving, and he was not going to let her go, according to an arrest report. Rouse then dragged the woman to a bedroom, threw her on a bed and raped her, according to police. The woman’s husband later walked into the apartment and got her help.

At VUMC, the woman went through medical scans which revealed she had a fractured neck and face, along with a severe cut on her head. She had additional bruising on the face, arms and head, police said.

Man charged after woman brutally beaten, raped in Nashville (wsmv.com)

I found Carl Rouse’s criminal history and it dates back to the 90s. This fucker should have been in prison, but they kept letting him go. From drug dealing to Felon in possession of a firearm and even a prior case similar to this one last year, this guy has over 50 felonies charge in his record, but mostly were either dismissed or he was given parole which he went to violate.

He remains jailed Monday morning on more than $200,000 bond.

He’ll be walking free soon.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – This week the Tennessee House could pass a bill that would let teachers carry a concealed gun. The bill would allow staff members in private and public schools to carry if they do the required 40-hour training and get approved by authorities.

Monday, Melissa Alexander came to the Cordell Hull Building with her son, a Covenant School student, for a press conference about the bill.

“My son is sitting right here because he was protected by his teacher that day,” she pointed out.

 

Covenant School moms try to stall House bill to arm teachers (wsmv.com)

No lady, your son is sitting right here because people with guns and the willpower to use them showed up and put the asshole Audrey Hale down.

They read a statement from a Covenant School teacher to try and stop the bill before it passes the House.

“I simply cannot imagine how I could have pulled out a gun with 10 children underfoot and in my arms,” Alexander read from the statement.

The words are from a preschool teacher who watched 13 students in a small closet the day of the shooting.

 

If you cannot figure that one out, you have no business being a teacher. I bet she has a car and drives it every day, something a bit more complex than drawing a gun and pulling the trigger at somebody threatening the kids she claims to want safe. Yet, she sends an anonymous message seeking pity and support for not doing what was right.

I understand why more parents want to homeschool and they are 100% right.

In a previous post, Put it in a holster and don’t touch it, I recounted the story of a Massachusetts cop who blamed his SIG P320 for going off without pulling the trigger.

I thought, at the time, he fat fingered the trigger when taking his gun out to take a shit.

I was wrong.

What he did was so much worse.

Cambridge school resource officer accidentally fired gun while taking it off restroom hook, officials say

A school resource officer at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School had hung his gun on a hook in the staff restroom and accidentally fired it while removing it last Tuesday, officials said.

At around 1:45 p.m. on April 2, Cambridge Police Officer Frank Greenidge took his department-issued gun out of his holster and hung it on a staff restroom stall hook by its trigger guard, according to a statement from Cambridge police and Cambridge Public Schools. When he took it off the hook, the gun fired, the statement said.

What.

The.

Actual.

Fuck!?

His SIG P320 went off when he put a bathroom stall coat hook through the trigger guard.

This moron needs to be kicked off the police force forever.

Illinois:

Anti-Israel protesters in Chicago are blocking roads leading into O’Hare Airport. People are having to walk to airport to make their flights.pic.twitter.com/UgYG7ugSEE

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) April 15, 2024

California:

Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco causing loads of traffic.

This is apparently supposed to get people to be sympathetic to their cause… pic.twitter.com/zL42elM9G4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 15, 2024

Florida:

A handful of Hamas terrorists are protesting in downtown Miami.

NOTE: They aren’t blocking traffic because…. FAFO in Florida. pic.twitter.com/uBikgJsKpw

— BCinSoFL?????️‍? (@BCinKWFL) April 15, 2024

What is diffCarry.

In Florida:

It’s a felony to block a road with a protest in Florida.

It’s legal to run over protesters who threaten you in self-defense.

Constitutional carry is legal.

Protesters know not to fuck around.