spent a pleasant morning "building" a couple of AR lowers with my sons

[1KPerDay]

17-year-old twins... one had been asking to build an AR with me so I got him a palmetto build kit and freedom lightweight upper for Christmas, and of course had to buy another for his brother. I wanted to get complete build kits but money is tight and from what I found it's actually less expensive to get completed uppers. Maybe next time.

Anderson lowers purchased locally. Went together without a hitch. Their first time driving pins or assembling guns and both enjoyed it.

GET TO THE CHOPPPAAAAAAH!!!

 

[bannockburn]

1KPerDay

Great to see your kids doing something like building their own AR versus spending their every free moment in front of a flat screen playing video games.

Good for you, good for them.

 

[adcoch1]

Nice one, 1kperday. My daughter has started nosing around one of my ar's the other day, and I told her they make pink furniture for them. She looks strait at me and says, "when I build one of these I want it to be black, NOT PINK!" Might be time for me to follow your lead...

 

[Jimster]

Great photos! I'm helping my 21 yo son build an ar right now. Very nice spending quality time with him and sharing an interest.

 

[Armored farmer]

Good for you guys,

We had a great winter build last year. All three sons built ARs. Now everyone in the house has an AR with a weapon light mounted.

 

[coloradokevin]

That's a darn fine way to spend some quality time with your kiddos! They'll probably appreciate those rifles even more when they get a bit older... the first AR-15 I built is still significant to me, and I only did it a couple of years ago!