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    They’re a bitch to clean.

    No they’re not. They tear down easily without tools. I can’t think of a part that can’t be cleaned easily. Maybe the gas tube?

    If it’s locked up, you can’t knock on the charging handle

    There’s a button called a forward assist for that specific purpose.

    Aluminum gas blocks…

    Milspec blocks are not aluminum, he’s complaining about after-market, non-standard mods.

    The extractor pin will often shatter in place,

    I’ve seen this on cheap BCGs. It’s annoying, but it’s easily fixable and won’t render the gun useless. You’ll just have to manually clear it.

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      Thanks for the context. I was never interested in owning an AR myself, not to mention that it seems to me like they’re way overpriced due to a lot of them being glam guns. He did it for a living for years, so I took him at his word.

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        No problem. As an owner of a fully-custom glam gun, I recommend building a shitty one first to learn what breaks and what doesn’t.