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YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN RIFLE

ONE OF MY mother’s uncles had a laconic response to a proposed gun ban in longago New Jersey. “Doesn’t matter. We’ll build our own.” His comment came back to me after my wife gifted our son (and me) a jig for completing an unfinished AR-15 lower receiver. Like my great uncle, we built our own.

Making personal firearms is legal under federal law, if that matters to you, although local rules

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