“Pour one out for the lower market.”

The market will still exist, but it won’t be for sub-50 dollar AR stripped lowers…

…well, that’s a kick in the tender bits. I suppose it’s a good thing that the products are being discontinued, because I’m not inclined to buy them ever again.

Been building AR platform rifles for almost 30 years now, over that time maybe close to 1,800 or so (collectively) for myself or wife (or her friends) and family and as gifts and for friends and for donations to various functions (for example, a local range where I donated a bunch of AR’s, I think it was 50, for their training classes), and sometimes just cause I wanted to, and some I built just to give away to people who wanted to get into firearms. Some were exact duplicates of different companies AR’s using the same parts as the actual thing they sell. Never once did I sell any of them, never once did I make even $1.00 on them, some I traded for other firearms with no money involved, and never once did I provide one of them without first checking the person/people out through contacts in the sheriffs office to determine if they were a ‘prohibited person’, and never once did I do it as a ‘business’. Used a lot of different manufacturer lowers and uppers, including Anderson lowers, during that time. Never once did I ever need an offset buffer retention pin. Granted, not all were Anderson lowers. I use lowers and uppers and barrels and parts I can get for free from manufacturers/companies through my brother. Sometimes I would need to buy small parts like, for example, pins and springs or triggers, but overall I wasn’t out of pocket much on the rifles I built. I did put some money into proper tools and gauges.

Its relaxing for me to build them, I like doing it, its a hobby, which is the reason why I like building AR platform rifles. I have other hobbies too, but some people build craft things/art as a hobby, some build engines or restore cars as a hobby, some do carpentry as a hobby – one of my hobbies is building AR platform rifles.

Perhaps my experiences with Anderson were before your time. I have the memory of an elephant and the tolerance for incompetence like a honey badger. Anderson was synonymous with junk, but glad you like them.

“The market for offset buffer retention pins to resolve the issue of out-of-spec lower receivers wouldn’t exist but for Anderson Mfg and their Poverty Pony. ”

Huh? I have built close to 100 rifles using Anderson lowers, and I never needed an offset buffer retention pin. I’m not sure what all people are doing or what they are using with Anderson lowers, I’ve see this complaint about needing an offset buffer retention pin – and I also used some Anderson lowers I used that people gave me complaining about the need for an offset buffer retention pin and how of spec it was blah blah blah, but when I spec’d them out they met specs and I removed the buffer tube they had in there and put a mil-spec buffer tube in and used a regular retention pin and it worked fine and everything lined up like it was suppose to do in spec. SOTAR has a video in which they mention this ‘offset buffer retention pins’ issue (not specifically for Anderson), and said and demonstrated its mostly arises from an improperly spec’d buffer tube or an improper length of threads on the buffer tube.