lol...i hear you homers...thats more of the lines i was thinking on my original post, but reality is ive seen and handled and watched shooters shoot more kits and parts guns than factory guns....i dont know if it was going on everywhere or just kinda local, but for a while, everyone bought uppers and lowers and parts kits and slapped together ARs...saved a good bit of money at the time and didnt take much knowledge or work....thats where the issues came out...but it was always a gas adjustment or a magazine issue of somekind..