Posted on 02/20/2020 5:08:16 AM PST by w1n1
Benghazi hero Dave 'Boon' Benton unveils his 'Askari' at the Orlando International SWAT Round-Up - Benton is a unique man, a quiet man, very much a philosopher of life. He is a family man, a lover of his country and God. A man who will fight to the death if need be, but trust me, it would be no easy task to kill him, as it has been tried many times before. On weapons, tactics, combatives and overall survival skills, there are very few people I listen to more closely than Boon.
TOGETHER with Alex Ferrer, the CEO and owner of Veritas and a custom rifle builder, Boon has come up with a new design for the AR pistol he has dubbed the Askari. The Askari, which conceals well in an average backpack, is a 5.56 AR pistol platform with 7075 T6 forged aluminum upper and lower ambidextrous bolt catch and release.
It also features a 7.5-inch 1:7-twist SEP match barrel with a 4150V-grade Mil-Spec B 1159E chrome moly (CrMo V) and black nitride finish-NiB barrel extension.
The pistol-length gas system with Geissele .750-inch low-profile gas block comes complete with a 7-inch Geissele MK 14 Rail System, Geissele airborne charging handle and Geissele carbine buffer and 42 wire carbine buffer spring. Other accoutrements to be found on the Askari include an AAC Flash Hider, WMD Nib M16 BCG, Radian 45-degree ambidextrous safety, Law Tactical folding adapter SB SBA3 Pistol brace, VZ Grips AR Grips, rail panels and hand stop, and Magpul Pro back and front flip-up sights complete with Magpul Trigger guard. Read the rest of Askari AR pistol.
I have no idea what I would do with one of these - other than clean it (probably too much/too often) and occasionally take it to the range and shoot it embarrassingly average (at best). But I still want one.
Train with it. Get good with it. Make it your truck gun.
I believe “Askari” means “policeman” in Swahili today; years ago they were native troops used by Germany in the African colonies (Humphrey Bogart uses the term in “The African Queen”).
asker is soldier in Turkish.
Nice!
Interesting; thanks!
These AR pistols are becoming a thing these days. I have a variety of AR type weapons, but for a truck gun, I’m really liking my 16” AR-9. It has all the tactical furniture the above gun does, but it’s a lighter smaller action gun in 9mm. What I think puts it above the 5.56 for a defense gun is that uses 33 round Glock magazines. And, that “longer than pistol length” barrel makes those 9mm rounds really zip along. I shoot 9x19 NATO spec 124 grain rounds out of it, and I bet those dudes are approaching 1500 fps muzzle velocity. Sighted in for 50 yards, it shoots within a couple inches of point-of-aim at 25 yards and 100 yards. And, I can hit a 12” steel plate with it at 200 yards every shot. I have a .308 rifle dueling tree with 3/8 thick 12” plates on it, and it’s the only pistol caliber weapon I have besides my .45 ACP that can swing those big plates over at 25 yards.
LOUD!!
Still has it’s appeal...
I would guess that with a standard 5.56 or .223 round there would be at least two or three feet flame coming out of that 9 inch barrel. That would be a bit distracting.
$2800, conservatively?
For, really, an AR with a 9 inch barrel?
Really now...
SMH
The very sight of this weapon would give liberals the vapors. I have often wondered if on liberal college campuses is there firearm porn? Little snowflakes salivating over hidden pictures of AR-15s or carefully hidden copies of Guns and Ammo magazine and maybe even very secretly going to gun ranges.
Palmetto state armory has ar pistol kits around roughly 300 bucks or so.
"The Askari, which conceals well in an average backpack, is a 5.56 AR pistol platform with 7075 T6 forged aluminum upper and lower ambidextrous bolt catch and release. It also features a 7.5-inch 1:7-twist SEP match barrel with a 4150V-grade Mil-Spec B 1159E chrome moly (CrMo V) and black nitride finish-NiB barrel extension. The pistol-length gas system with Geissele .750-inch low-profile gas block comes complete with a 7-inch Geissele MK 14 Rail System, Geissele airborne charging handle and Geissele carbine buffer and 42 wire carbine buffer spring. Other accoutrements to be found on the Askari include an AAC Flash Hider, WMD Nib M16 BCG, Radian 45-degree ambidextrous safety, Law Tactical folding adapter SB SBA3 Pistol brace, VZ Grips AR Grips, rail panels and hand stop, and Magpul Pro back and front flip-up sights complete with Magpul Trigger guard. Read the rest of Askari AR pistol.
Yeah, $300 for an AR upper assembly. This list of custom whiz-bang stuff goes on and on and on for so long that you've gotta go to his website to find the end of it.
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