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do you have a link to a site where I can buy the Glock pistol quadrail attachment?
Site said LEO/Military only, sorry.
Now what about Grinding odd the LEO/Military Only marking on that colt?
The reason those Glock mounts are for LEO/military only is that using them without the proper ATF/NFA registration instantly makes you a Felon. That particular crime is punishable by up to 10 years in the Federal house and a fine of up to $250,000 .. or both. The necessary registration is $200 and will take you a few months.
As for removing the LEO/military marking from your Colt (or any other brand) Those markings no longer have any legal status what ever. If you really want to muck up your gun you can try to remove them. I have seen several attempts by people to remove them, so far not a single one looked even 1/2 way decent. To properly do it you would need to weld over the markings, machine the welds down, and have the receiver completely professionally refinished.
The refinishing could not be anodizing because it would not look right. The different metals you have fused together will not take the anodizing exactly the same and you will have varying colors. You could Teflon coat it and end up with an evenly colored surface. The cost to do all that would likely be over $500.
I have seen numerous attempts to try to fill in the letters with various automotive body fillers and so forth. They all look like the art project of a 5 year old. I did see one that looked like a 10 year old did it. That one almost looked 1/2 way decent, still not good enough to pass as even "good" but it did start to get closer than any other I have seen.
If you were to grind the markings off you would be removing a significant amount of metal from the magazine well. To make it look right you would have to feather it in so that you had a smooth surface. This would require the removal of even more metal. I have had some (very minor) auto body experience and from that I would estimate that your feathering would need to start at the edge of the magwell and gradually get deeper until you have achieved the maximum depth of the roll mark. To do this smoothly and evenly so that it looked factory done would require either a very skilled craftsman or a very experienced milling machine operator. Even then you would end up with a concave surface, not a flat one. Unless of course you just machined the entire side of the magazine well to about ½ of the normal thickness. Not something I would even consider doing.
The markings never bothered me one way or the other. I find them a lot less “Offensive” than any of the results I have seen of trying to remove them.
You know it is really kind of funny, I have guys sending me receives all the time to be laser engraved with those same LEO/Military markings and then we have people all the time wanting to take the factory markings off... Maybe you guys should seek each other out and just trade receivers?
Jon K.
