Once a flash hider - always a flash hider?

[KrizB]

Pretty straightforward, if someone were to take a flash hider and alter or modify it so that it's no longer a functioning flash hider, is it still considered a flash hider?


p.s. Flash Hider

[Quiet]

California Code of Regulations Title 11 Division 5 Chapter 39 Article 2 Section 5471

[bohoki]

i chopped off the front of a flashhider when i made my first featureless to have a thread protector what i wish i did was bore out the center to the threads and installed it backwards that i could have put a bayonet on my carbine i think it would just about make it

but yea would installing it backwards still be having a flash hider cause technically if installed correctly it would be a flash hider but it is redesigned to be a threadprotector/bayonet ring holder and is not intended or currently functions to reduce muzzle flash

[KrizB]

Good to know.
Was wanting to just cut the 'cage' off some flash hiders I had sitting around in a bag in order to save a buck on having to buy thread protectors.

[yacko]

Good to know.
Was wanting to just cut the 'cage' off some flash hiders I had sitting around in a bag in order to save a buck on having to buy thread protectors.

I did that. Cut it and ground it to right about the end of barrel.

You cant possibly tell me or convince any sane person it is still a flash hider if you compare the 2 side by side.

[lastinline]

I did that. Cut it and ground it to right about the end of barrel.

You cant possibly tell me or convince any sane person it is still a flash hider if you compare the 2 side by side.

Agreed. And if it has no markings, who is to say otherwise?

[Jimi Jah]

An end cap is $5.

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

I’ve done that too. If the cage is gone it cannot hide or direct flash anywhere.

[yacko]

An end cap is $5.

I cut it since I couldnt remove it. i dont have an action block.

[HibikiR]

If you cut the offending parts, then wouldn't that make you the manufacturer of a device (Bubba's thread protector) that is neither designed nor advertised to be an evil flash hider?

[The Gleam]

I didn't want to lose the look of the three-prong flashider on my 2 Mar-Col-Mars, which have a unique look to them vs. the usual AR version, nor did I want some weird looking wonky modernized art deco brake or some other thing looking like a tiny dildo on the front of my rifles.

So I ordered an additional spare two of rough finish extras from SARCO, cut and shaped machine screws to fit flush in the gas gaps, cleaned them up and parkerized them.

The way I see it, they have been 're-manufactured' to not be flash-hiders anymore. They won't hide a thing now, but look "correct" (sort of) and kept the nice originals for out of state.






















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