Riomouse911
Contributing Member
Since Ca. state law says all home made firearms need a serial number, and Ca. DOJ won’t issue serial numbers for 80% handgun builds at all, you have to jump through the same hoops to buy a serialized frame and assemble your own as you do to buy a complete gun.
So, in order to build my own Glock pistol I have to buy a factory OEM lower, go through the paperwork and 10-day wait, then buy all the parts to assemble them. This administrative end-run around the Second Amendment completely defeats the spirit of the Polymer 80 kits since the guns I buy are serialized and papered. But its still fun to go from a bland, bare pistol frame and bags of parts to something you fit and assemble into a working firearm.
Ive done two others, a Gen 3 Glock 19 in Bottomland camo and a Gen 3 Glock 17 in Desert camo. They both shoot well after getting a tweak or two; the 17 had a trigger reset issue with the oem system so I went to an Apex trigger set up, and with the Glock 19 the original TiN barrel chamber was slightly out of spec and was replaced by the manufacturer.
This one I just finished is a Glock 34. I asked the guys at H&H Engineering to surprise me, and they put into motion a five-color cerakote in a quasi-woodland camo pattern.
The frame is oem Gen-3 Glock, the slide is a Lone Wolf Alpha Wolf, the barrel is a Brownells “match grade” conventionally rifled tube that needed minimal fitting to the slide, it has a steel guide rod and Glock oem internals, a Vickers flat trigger shoe, extended slide release and mag catch and Wolff 5.0 lb striker spring & reduced power safety plunger spring. The sights are Hi Viz red/green fiber optics and the mags are Glock gen 5 in their latest attempt at FDE (It looks more like cat poop brown to me, but it may be my astigmatism playing tricks.
) The only genuinely frivolous part is a Bastion Gear American flag rear slide cover, which is something I have on every one of my Glocks.
The trigger pull is standard Glock; a bit of creep is present as the striker spring is fully compressed but the flat trigger seems (to me) to eliminate a lot of the sponginess striker triggers often have. This one breaks at four pounds over ten pulls.
In July 2022 a new Sacramento-created edict goes into effect that I believe will require parts kits to be serialized and sold only through FFL’s. If this is, in fact, the new rule it will seriously curtail, or maybe even end, aftermarket gun parts sales in the California republik. So this will probably be the last parts build I do until I can move elsewhere.
This has been a fun endeavor. For those of you fortunate enough to be able to buy, machine and assemble home made firearms, I hope you’ll be able to enjoy this hobby for many, many more generations!
Im going to go shoot today for an hour or two with my son, I will post how it shoots for us when I am back.
Stay safe.
So, in order to build my own Glock pistol I have to buy a factory OEM lower, go through the paperwork and 10-day wait, then buy all the parts to assemble them. This administrative end-run around the Second Amendment completely defeats the spirit of the Polymer 80 kits since the guns I buy are serialized and papered. But its still fun to go from a bland, bare pistol frame and bags of parts to something you fit and assemble into a working firearm.
Ive done two others, a Gen 3 Glock 19 in Bottomland camo and a Gen 3 Glock 17 in Desert camo. They both shoot well after getting a tweak or two; the 17 had a trigger reset issue with the oem system so I went to an Apex trigger set up, and with the Glock 19 the original TiN barrel chamber was slightly out of spec and was replaced by the manufacturer.
This one I just finished is a Glock 34. I asked the guys at H&H Engineering to surprise me, and they put into motion a five-color cerakote in a quasi-woodland camo pattern.
The frame is oem Gen-3 Glock, the slide is a Lone Wolf Alpha Wolf, the barrel is a Brownells “match grade” conventionally rifled tube that needed minimal fitting to the slide, it has a steel guide rod and Glock oem internals, a Vickers flat trigger shoe, extended slide release and mag catch and Wolff 5.0 lb striker spring & reduced power safety plunger spring. The sights are Hi Viz red/green fiber optics and the mags are Glock gen 5 in their latest attempt at FDE (It looks more like cat poop brown to me, but it may be my astigmatism playing tricks.
) The only genuinely frivolous part is a Bastion Gear American flag rear slide cover, which is something I have on every one of my Glocks.
The trigger pull is standard Glock; a bit of creep is present as the striker spring is fully compressed but the flat trigger seems (to me) to eliminate a lot of the sponginess striker triggers often have. This one breaks at four pounds over ten pulls.
In July 2022 a new Sacramento-created edict goes into effect that I believe will require parts kits to be serialized and sold only through FFL’s. If this is, in fact, the new rule it will seriously curtail, or maybe even end, aftermarket gun parts sales in the California republik. So this will probably be the last parts build I do until I can move elsewhere.
This has been a fun endeavor. For those of you fortunate enough to be able to buy, machine and assemble home made firearms, I hope you’ll be able to enjoy this hobby for many, many more generations!
Im going to go shoot today for an hour or two with my son, I will post how it shoots for us when I am back.
Stay safe.
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