Anyone in the Indianapolis area know how to and have built multiple ARs ?

Used to be plenty of video's on youtube. I haven't looked in awhile.

Not rocket science it’s a 20 minute deal once you know where the parts go.

Larry potterfeild has a good video on building an ar lower.

Thanks ,but I rather not do my first gun build from YouTube videos. Don't want to make a mistake the could hurt myself or others.

It's not as intimidating as it seems. A set of roll pin punches ($20), an AR-15 admirers wrench ($30) and the book
The AR-15 Complete Assembly Guide, Volume 2 by Walt Kuleck with Clint McKee and you'll be set.

And a hammer


Seriously if you can knock together a IKEA bed side table, you can build an AR ... build is a bit much of a word really.

Brownells also has some excellent instructional videos. Take the leap, the water is not over your head.

You would have to work overtime to mess up the way they were designed we are talking about a handful of parts and everything has its place.

ever put new Shoes on drum brakes , that is 10X harder than building an AR lower and 99.99% more likely to hurt someone.

I won't call it Idiot proof , but you would have to be seriously deviating from any acceptable use of tools to hurt people

the only place your likely to break any thing is the trigger guard ears , and a deck of old playing cards fixes that.

they are PFC resistant

I was going to post you a you tube video , that I thought was very good to build . but it was so apparently so good youtube took it down not wanting to spread that kind of freedom of information.

You arent building anything. You are assembling milspec parts. You have to work real real hard to mess something up. Only thing i can think of you might do wrong is put in a hammer spring backwards. It will work backwards just not as well. SO go nuts.

Wish I could find someone with 50 miles of me that knows what they are doing. I'm very hand and pic up things quickly but have always preferred having someone that knows what they are doing show me once and I usually got it.

If you cant watch a youtube video of how to do it and be able to assemble things in the proper order you might be better off buying one assembled.

I have all the tools if you want to come up, I will teach you how to put it together.

It's not just putting it together, it's that they're so many manufacturers of all these parts and made out off this and that material I mean how many different kinds of 16" barrels are out there, just don't know where to start. I'm sure I could put one together but there has to be parts out there that might be considered low quality.

You're overthinking it. Once you build a few, you'll see they're simpler than you think. I am self taught from youtube videos as I didn't have anyone to teach me. Just have to find the real gun guys on youtube and then just pay attention and be sober when building. They're easier to assemble than you might think.

Build a lower first. then buy a complete upper. After your first one of these then build a second lower then build a complete upper. Enough of the kits.

Have you watched any videos? At least take a look and if your still afraid then take flipper up on his offer.

Very easy as stated above! Build a lower and buy a complete upper. Good luck

Lowers are easy.
One of my kids had no issues using an online tutorial.
At 11 yo.
No special tools, he used needle nose vice grips with jaws wrapped in electrical tape to set pins.
Just do it a little at a time. Get it started, squeeze, tighten a turn, repaet until in.

He DID assemble little stuff inside a large clear plastic bag, as some of the little parts WILL take off for parts unknown, never to be found.