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One time my son was dying of kidney disease and ar-180 overheard our conversation in the parking lot and selflessly offered his own kidney I will never forget what he's done for me and my family
Trying to find binary right and wrong in history (or anything) is folly. We can assign better and worse people/ideologies/sides to a conflict, but actually saying the better side was fully in the right is misleading at best. The entire point of history is to learn from it, deciding "this side was right" blinds you to most of the lessons that are there, even if that was the objectively better side.
It's shocking how many parents and school board members can't recognize this and want things they see as bad removed from textbooks, as if knowing something happened will make people agree with it. Which then leads to it happening again because people don't know what went wrong the first time.
@@unachimba9 I can give you a few the soviets in ww2,they were vicious to the people of Germany doesn't matter if they were military or not but they were on the allied side and was getting supplies from the allies.another example again from ww2 was the nukes dropped on Japan,was it worth the entire city's population to avoid the ground invasion or not you can see it both ways and both are not entirely wrong
The AR-180 is the only AR variety that managed to stay off the ban list in Canada. A few Canadian companies are making modern varieties and takes on this platform.
@@jeremiahfyan Yes you would have your freedom but shitty gun laws. At least the loyalists in the North love their guns. In 1998 when the rest of the UK banned hand guns it was the UUP and DUP who vetoed it in the North.
I received my dads AR-180 about 15 yeas ago. We had modified 6 Ar-15 mags to work. Back in 2014 I found that G36 mags have the cut already in the mag and works flawlessly.
I'm from Ireland and a fun fact is that it was very hard to get .223 legally for hunting back during the troubles in the Republic of Ireland as they went in the Ar-180, a lot of farmers and hunters had to get .22 hornet rifles instead and a lot of gun shops have stockpiles of .22 hornet rifle that no-one uses anymore
"I was stopped by a soldier, he said you are a swine He hit me with his rifle, he kicked me in the groin. I begged and I pleaded, me manners were polite, but sure all the time I'm thinking of me little Armalite" Also: "8000 Years Kathleen" haha
This is the problem. You get all the guns ammunition and power in the world. But you will not use it. You'd rather let yourself get destroyed, just so you don't have to use it.
It's one of the most firearm influential designs out there, a majority of short stroke piston guns on the market are AR-18 derivatives. You mentioned the G36 already, but the Scar, Aug, Bren, F2000 and B&T APC series (among others) are also derivatives of the AR-18.
@@TheMikeTB Yeah the British were quite a bit late to the NATO 5.56 party, probably because they realized what a piece of worthless shit the AR-15 platform is, but also because their design team is primarily English, and there's only 5 of them, and you would quickly find 2 of them murdered, and 2 more gang-raping the 5th one (Wales joke) but nonetheless, stealing German WW2 tech was always a viable option, but apparently the constant cycle of refreshing losses on the design team with new recruits, it seemed to lead to a mathematical feedback loop wherein each subsequent generation of death incidents would spur on the subconscious telepathical panic broadcast (we think this is related to the sensation of "your life flashes before your eyes") and at least some of the neurological pattern data would be uploaded to people within 8th z-wave range resulting in the 2 replacements becoming aware and emotionally responding to the news that the English are murderers and rapists, then passing that knowledge again with the TPB, and again, and again, and again, quickly leading to the 2 replacements having an enormous rage and superhuman will with an extraordinary capacity for violence, and as the 2 murdering rapists were aging and growing weaker, the 2 replacements would gain the upper hand, this entire process only took 3 minutes and 18 seconds, the balance of power would be equalized and then briefly tip into favoritism due to the unique astrological positioning of Mars that month, and the resulting TPB from the repeatedly dying old ones would result in a perfectly aligned Z-wave collision of supreme being energy, which would instantly give birth to a cosmic entity known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army UP THE RA
@@llamaimpyjama6402 You do realize that those features are tied to the site itself and not a particular channel, right? They literally CANNOT be changed unless you were to re-code the entire site.
It's got more than just Irish songs dedicated to it. They say there's this Norwegian dude named Roland with no head who's the best Thompson gunner out there.
I own an AR180 with an original 2.75 x scope marked Armalite. I have "converted" several standard AR/NATO magazines and CHANGED THE FOLLOWERS to newer anti-tilt ones, I have had no feed problems. That was a 40 round mag in the video, more prone to problems. I find that the folding stock is a great design; I have had no problems with mine. The Barrel is a 1:12 twist and loves 55 gr. bullets 62 gr. works ok ,no key holing at 100 yards but I wouldn't run any heavier bullets . The piston gas system is flawless, clean and simple to clean. The bolt is similar to any AR 15 but not interchangeable. There is No interchangeability with AR15s on anything with the AR180. These rifles were made by Armalite in Costa Mesa California, Sterling in England and Howa in Japan. Another Piston operated AR style rifle is the Tiawanese T-91 those built uppers are still sold in the US by Wolf of Wolf Ammo and they work well also. Brownells has an upper based on the AR180 that is the most recent adaptation that they have developed. The video didn't really do the 180 much justice..IMO but Thanks anyway.
@@BoopSnoot My first rifle as a Marine was an M-16 with Mattel plastic furniture, a few years later we moved to the "AR" with the burst mode in the early eighties. The "M-16's" were kinda "loosy goosy" by then and had some accuracy problems as they got old.
Brandon, Stoner went with a short stroke gas piston because he found himself in the bizarre situation on not being legally allowed to use the DI system that he had invented because Armalite had sold the patent to Colt in 1959. As soon as Colt's patent expired, he went right back to the DI system for the SR25.
@@highsped recoil has nothing to do with piston superior it's the reliability of no gas being blown back into that oily action gumming it up and heating up the receiver!! i had a 180 and the bitch would eat all day without even a hint of needing to be cleaned due to a gummed up action 2.500-3.000 rounds through her and she'd still be ready for more!! try that in a 15! of the 7 DI driven 15's i've had over the years NONE of them would go more than 550 rounds without needing to be cleaned or having a upper that wasn't an instant finger burn!! the reason i got rid of them!!!
Brandon, as an Irishman I can tell you this video is truly based. The humour, the history, the rebel songs, spot on. The troubles is something that is still a touchy subject, but you nailed absolutely everything. Refreshing to see yanks know Irish history. There’s a pint of plain waiting for you if you ever come to this beautiful country, with dogshit gun laws.
Loads of yanks do know Irish history because we are descended from Irish immigrants, my grandmothers grand father was from Ireland. Roughly 42% of my genes come from northern and central Ireland
@@RageUnchained Most of Ireland is Celtic, but the very southern regions have olive-skinned Irish people who are the descendants of the ancient Phoenicians
I remember a story about an American visiting a pub in Ireland. He asks the bartender for an Irish Car Bomb. The bartender comes back with two tall shot glasses of flaming vodka. "What the hell is that!" the American asks. "We call it the flaming World Trade Center." replies the bartender.
‘ a comrade on me left and another one on me right… and a clip of amunition for me little….? My fav line is ‘ remember narrow water and the bloody…🇮🇪☘️
@blamau14 the story I've heard is an Irishman came over and had an irish-american that was sympathetic buy it they then took it apart and smuggled it back through the luggage
@@Dreyno the right gun law: any civilised, respectable, non criminal record holding individual has the right to own a gun. Not Dubs, Limerick men, travellers or known scumbags
0.55 The 50.cal is actually pretty accurate. "The Armagh Sniper" as its known, was a sniping campaign in South Armagh. They obtained a 50.cal BMG from either the US or Libya and would sit in a small armoured car and fire out of a modified rear window with a hatch. It was fairly successful in terms of killing british soldiers and draining morale in the area.
There were rumors one of Barrett's employees was sympathetic to the IRA. The model that they preferred was the model 95 bolt action bullpup because it was cheaper and shorter making it easier to fire from the trunk of a vehicle. One famous hatchback that they used had a giant steel plate across the back with a firing slit for the 50.
@@crazysilly2914 All you need is an old hatchback, some 1/2 inch steel plate and dad's old gas welder to repurpose a car for guerrilla warfare, you dunce. The only one talking about manufacturing is you.
The front pin is actually a pivot pin, just like in the AR15. There's a window at the back of the receiver set, above the stock shank, to push the recoil plate/rod assembly forward which disengages the upper from the lower to pivot down/forward. Many will use a bullet nose to do this but anything else similar would do.
The AR180 was featured in a lot of cop shows of the 1970s as the bad-guy's rifle. Even "sniper" bad guys. In fact, growing up on those shows, I really figured random, roof-top snipers and spectacular car crashes would feature much more heavily in my life. ;)
There was an episode of "SWAT" where the bad guy had an AR18 and they made a big ass deal about how much more deadly it was than the team's M16s because it had a (gasp) FOLDING STOCK. TV has always been fucking anti-gun.
@@bb5242 - Exactly (and that's the series I had in mind). When I re-watched Quincy, MD as an adult I got pretty ticked off. That show was one big anti-gun campaign.
@@cr1tikal_arc Yup, that show was horrible! But I still watched it as a kid. As an adult, I re-watched a could of episodes and they were "woke" in their day, really lots of the same drivel we listen to today.
Im brittish n only got pellet guns until im 18 n get a license for it brandon literally taught me most things abt guns he even taught me that the full bullet and casing dosent come out the barrel ive been waching since i was 12 im 17 now and theres not a video of his i havent wached so technically he raised me i have dark humour like his same hobbys damn my dads the best i can ask for but if i was brandons son id be so damn happy hes literally saved my life i was going thru a dark patch when i was 15 and had planned it out to kms but i decided not to bc of multiple main reasons and not being able to see his vids played a big part in saving me
When your audience can vary from Gun hobbyist from U.S to californiacation who think AR-15 will blow human lung out of the body(because biden said so) to europeans where Law abiding citizens cant have guns without ridicilous hoop the loops while criminals can have it all because as it turns out, making gun more illegal does not stop the illegal firearms. It's good to explain it in detail so that people understand how the firearms really work. Because again there are people unfamiliar with firearms think that AR-15 fire scraping your ear will blow your head off.
@danny6209 it caused more division in the end you could argue, but my step-dad always says there weren't much issue between Catholic and Protestant until the English started causing it
@@tomparry8877 They are not free. It's hard to have a fair vote when the indigenous population is outnumbered by colonizers. However loyalists are now closer then ever to becoming the minority. Make no mistake friend... Tiocfaidh ár lá! 🇮🇪32💚
I did a paper on the AR-180 for my English class in college. Teacher was a huge local history buff and turns out Armalite was making AR-180s not too far from our school in the 60s.
As I was reading this I was expecting you to say your kind old Irish teacher was very familiar with the AR-180 due to him being an IRA fugitive hiding out in an American high school
We had an AR-180 in the '90's. We found it very reliable. We didn't have any of the problems you're having. It was also designed to be a cheaper rifle than the AR-15, hence all of the stamped parts. The quality of the rifle was very good.
What you described with the sight and the merging of the vision fields? In basic our drill sergeants made us shoot with the covers on the front of our CCO's... Because it trained us to keep both eyes open, and we could still engage targets accurately. Pretty neat, and a good way to establish a good habit.
That sight works just like the RCO scope marines use. They are trained to shoot with both eyes open at closer ranges. It's weird at first but it works very well. Same concept for the monocle NVGs
@@oxide9679 Are you maybe thinking of the PVS-7? It had two occular lenses that shared the image from one objective lense/image intensifier. The PVS-14 is a monocle and no one I know has ever had a problem with them. I used one in the service and own one as well.
Fun fact, that occluded scope technique works on any scope with a red illuminated reticle, so if you have fixed/high power scope you want to use (i.e. ACOG), you can keep both eyes open for close quarters action.
For someone like me who.. my right eye looks straight and my left eye looks to it's left, somehow I don't think this will work. I have to use one eye with irons or standard red dot lol.
@@W0DAN88 Depends. Shotguns and rifles are generally easy to get if you say its for hunting. Semi-auto shotgun mag tubes are restricted to only fit 2 shells if its for hunting, making you being able to only shoot 3 shots without reloading, pump action shotguns dont have mag restrictions oddly enough. Hand guns are harder to get, but you can get some revolvers easier if its for hunting raccoon dogs for example. TLDR; yes and no, stupid regulations exist for the guns also. Being able to get a gun permit for hunting, reguires you to have a hunting license, which can be acquired by taking a course that includes gun safety, hunting laws, learning to identify animals etc and then passing the final exam. Taking the course is not necessary but its advised, but you can do the final exam straight away also and its enough for getting a hunting license if you pass the test. Sorry for this long and cryptic answer, I'm still half asleep.
As a Malaysian from South East Asia, I wish I had a 2nd amendment... I would settle for bolt action and revolvers if my country doesn't allow those M16/M4 stuff.
8 rounds into one of our armoured cars at about 30 metres and they didn't go through. It sounded like stones at first until we saw the glass getting 2 rounds on top of each other. We fu ked off pretty quickly
Hey Brandon, the plastic furniture that was "made by Mattel" was actually for the early production batches of XM16E1's that were used in the Vietnam War. I'm not sure how this myth wound up being transferred over to the AR-180, but it certainly isn't true for this weapon.
i think it came from the earlier nicknames for the original M16's that were fielded in Vietnam, one of them being "Mattel 16". i guess ppl didn't really get their facts right and it grew to the AR-180
@jemangecul It could very well be a mix of the two, with the later M16's that were issued retaining that nickname due to also being made with plastic furniture. Combine that with earlier stories of M16 grips or handguards that had "Made by Mattel" stamps on them, and that's how a (relatively) modern myth gets born.
The red dot made me think, when i was a kid and my dad taught me to shoot (w/ AK and mosin carbine) I always shot both eyes open with ironsights and I STILL swear by it. Basically a 3point version of a "2point" occluded sight.
Ive been staring at his Ar-180 in his gun wall for a reeeeeaaally long time waiting for him to talk about it and I'm happy he did cause seeing it in terminator was badass
Two things here. First, and purely in terms of aesthetics, this thing is like the M16 and FAL had a beautiful baby. Second, and something I JUST learned thanks to this, the occluded eye gunsight is what's on the Rebel blaster (DH-17 for my fellow nerds) in Star Wars! Always wondered why it had a clear front end with a red fiber in it.
As a texan thank you for properly representing us. Best channel on youtube hands down. Only channel I actually click on the notifications when I see them.
As someone who grew up in Belfast in the 80s and 90s I greatly appreciate and find hilarious the comment 'This is why Ireland isn't free' and as an an immigrant and are huge supporter of the 2nd. Maybe I'll bump into you fellas at Shot Show and say hi!
I love being English and being Scottish n Irish i dont get why all of em hate on eachother like we are pretty much brothers just with different accsents ive been ireland n scotland like why u hate me for literally being born and having a English accent when if u check ur dna ur probably got allot of English irish n Scottish n nordic n there excuse is England bad no not England politics bad
@@LincolnTeale-bp3vlThey occupied Ireland that's why the infernal Anglo is that bad. An now London plays the mass migration toon Ireland's "leadership " dances to. I pray the Irish people remember who they are and fight back before its to late God willing they inspire Scottish an English men as well.
In the early 80’s my dad introduced me to a man that was in the IRA. I asked him what that was and he said Irish Republican Army. Then I asked what he did, thinking as a child that was an actual army, he said “I was the tail gunner in a bread truck”. My dad later had to explain to me the whole deal. I thought the guy was joking because my dad and him were laughing when he said it. Dude was no joke. Ever since I’ve always had a fascination with the IRA.
A bread truck that delivers bread to shops they would have an open trailer and the it’s would mount heavy machine guns to them. Basically what’s know in the military as technical
I recall the tales as a child of my grandfather shooting black & tans during the Easter uprising.....he went on to join Sinn Fein....and my dad moved to Canada.
@@JOSHUAPT100 the IRA would pinch a unionist delivery van. sometimes killing the driver. they would then drive it to a unionist part of town. mostly a shopping airier. what we call a highstreet. they would then seeped up to about 70 mph and a guy in the back would spray the street with bullets. the idea was to kill civilians and stop people from shopping for food and so on. they would avoided shooting a troops like this. as on the one or two times they did the 'tail gunner' always got killed. so the guy he met. was basically saying he tried to kill mums and kids just out doing a bit of shopping. he could never have been in one of the 'tail gun' attacks on troops or police as they all got killed. he could only have been trying to kill civilians in his attacks.
@@onlyhereforddebob8978 mate they never used heavy machine guns like that. the IRA only ever one or two of them. they always used them to shoot up police stations at range. tail gunners used AKs or SMGs.
Loved also seeing the Archer references and jokes used in combination with references and jokes about Irish rebel music and the IRA. The Archer TV series did the same thing. For example in the episode where Pam was kidnapped, and ceryl asked Cheryl for a bunch of money he mentioned that he borrowed it from his IRA and Cheryl confused the individual retirement account with the provisional IRA and asked what are they going to do kneecap you? Kneecapping was a popular punishment during the troubles by all the paramilitary organizations especially the provos and was usually done by shooting the My Little armalite through your knees
The original AR-180s are... spotty in terms of build and reliability, but PWS' BRN-180 is absolutely amazing and a great modern take on the original design. I love my 18.5, it's one of my go-to guns.
The mistake of the AR-18 was that they tried to make it too cheap. People looked at it, said 'this is cool, but for a little more I can have an M-16/AR-15 and those are made NICE. Then they wanted a pistol and copied the AR-18. It's the most successful failure in history because of all the copies.
The weapon selection they had at the time was quite impressive, from surplus WW1 and WW2 guns from all over, to newish US firearms (eg the barrets) smuggled M60s and M2 browings,Mp-5s and Uzis, FN Fals from raided UK bases, AK's from Chinses to Yugo, RPGS and DShKas from Soviet satellite states and even Strela Manpads.
@HorizonGaming2013 to be fair the taliban got well stocked by USA in the 80s when they were fighting the Russians so no wonder they had the gear to fight back when Nato invaded based on a dossier full of lies. Gotta love Western meddling
There was a rumor that I've only heard about once and have never been able to find anything about, which said that the Russians sent 20 AN-94s to the IRA during the Troubles.... Big if true, but sounds to ridiculous to me.
When I was a kidof about 7 or 8 a kid in my grandparents town got blown up by the IRA leaving an IED packed in a military torch outside a territorial army (reservist) base I will never forget the effect it had on my grandmother.
Fun fact: the AR-18/180 was licensed to Sterling Arms and influenced the SA80A1 series of weapons for the British army, these were then improved by H&K using the also AR18 derived G36 as its base.
@tetraxis3011 They told the workforce that they were being made redundant while they were producing the A1s, so the workers put the minimum effort into production. It's not their problem after the contract is finished.
That's something you and the Loyalist agree on then. The only pro gun political parties in the UK or Ireland are the DUP and UUP. That's why hand guns and concealed carry permits are still a thing in Northern Ireland.
A lot of years ago, I ran across some VZ-52's, mostly parts that once were imported. I built my own version of the "ar-180" using the annular piston design and some stock metal parts from Lowe's and have a very smooth operating and reliable lightweight rifle based on the 52 design. You should showcase the VZ's sometime in your videos, it's a truly innovative concept and quite reliable in my experience. A good friend of mine has a 180 which kind of inspired my build experience with piston driven rifles, the 52 gas system really simplifies the build for those who own a lathe and machine shop. It's nice and simple and low profile. Good mags and 300 blackout function very well in my rifle. I've been shooting this round for quite a few years now, and I really like it. I've got a red-dot mounted on the aluminum tube with a nice square bolt carrier. Love your videos, don't quite understand the "white claws" but to each his own.
For some reason its illegal to hunt in PA with an AR15 UNLESS you buy a bolt conversion kit. I have no idea why that makes a difference lol. I THOUGHT it was because .223/5.56 was too underpowered to kill large animals, but then i found out about the bolt thing and was like "wtf, why does that matter?" lol. still havent looked up the answer yet haha
I genuinely like the dark humor some of Brandon's videos have, you know that those are done as either a recreation or just mocking of the topic in question. And to those who get offended by that kind of humor, I say "Dark humor is just like food in Africa - not everyone will get it."
@@ReanuKeevesAus First of all, I'm sorry you lost your legs in a car accident...it's terrible luck to survive the war unharmed and be seriously injured in a "safe" civilian life. Secondly, I'll ask like one soldier to another....you want an even worse joke about accidents and lost limbs..? - What happened to me? _ Don't worry, it's just a little scratch on your leg. - Can I see it..? -Unfortunately, no, the leg is in the second ambulance.
Around 50% of the arms and supplies came from US civilians...and then from within Ireland and Libya. A shit ton came from US civilians and people connected to leftist trade unions that shipped them..
Around 50% of the arms and supplies came from US civilians...and then from within Ireland and Libya. A shit ton came from US civilians and people connected to leftist trade unions that shipped them..
Being it’s a modified AR15 mag, you might be able to use the Magpul anti-tilt followers for GI mags. Not sure how much of the mag was modified but the followers are cheap enough to try it
9:22 Fun Fact: If you own a normal red-dot/holographic sight, you can experience the same effect by looking through the sight and focusing your eyes onto a nearby surface instead of the reticle, then covering the front lens with your hand. Might take practice to get your focus right, but it's an neat sensation.
For some people that can’t focus properly on a red dot I’ve been told you can flip down the front cover or cover the front of it to “train” urself to see it properly
indeed it does work. its funny, if i paid attention to the target, it worked properly, but if i payed attention to the dot itself, my brain would use mostly information from the other eye and my vision of the target would go black, despite my eyes still being focused down range.
I remember going to the armoury in Catterick Infantry Training Centre (British Army Infantry Training Centre) in 2014 and seeing a stockpile of those things in a cage. They were all captured off of killed and captured fighters in Ireland. Since Game of Thrones was still new, the joke was that they'd be melted down into the Queen's new "iron throne".
I had a “Sterling” variation, and it was ok, then I got a AK, which prompted me to keep the better of the 2, and I now am a AK/SKS supporter. You have the scope mount & optic(if I spent my time panning for gold in my garden I could find my weight in gold before I would find the ar180 optic set up at a gun show!) but the ease of getting a (vast variety) scope mount + optic is also a game changer. To add to your story I read somewhere that the IRA bought parts, and all the stamped assay’s were flats, which they then bent and welded, also they built stems, Mac 9’s etc…anything you could build in a garden shed. And if you’ve ever watched Sons of Anarchy…why would Cali bikers import gun kits from Ireland…when they can get excellent Mexican AK’s (to any counterfeit pattern with or without markings)just over the border?
Great description of the Occluded Eye Sight. This explains why I've never been able to shoot with them. I have a astigmatism that prevents the merging of the eyes if they are seeing 2 different things. I can concentrate on one image and the other just drifts off to the side and won't play because it's being ignored. On the plus side, it allows me to use scopes with both eyes open.
The "mattel 16" myth was just old heads at the time commenting on how light and toy-like the new plastic furniture guns felt. There was never any credibility to it, fuddlore since day one
@@callsignapollo_ Yup. The closest it ever became to being the truth was John Wayne holding an actual Mattel M16 toy in a couple short scenes in The Green Berets
Australia adopted a 40 round magazine for the AUG, same ammo type and I think same magazine dimensions, they do work, the issue with this magazine seems to be that it’s tilting the keeper in the magazine causing feed issues
@@larrywilson178320 rounders were used when my gramps was in Vietnam, afaik my dad was always issued 30s, he kept a lot of 30s in our house although it was quite illegal by the state law to keep them.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606ah yea 40rnd mags? In the Irish army the extended mags were kept for the lmg version, then I don't think for peacekeeping duties we could justify 40rnd mags and the extra ammo that goes with it.
I regret selling off my 180 back in the early 80s. Never had the mag problems you were fighting. I remember using GI mags with a slot cut for the 180s mag catch. Silly dovetail scope mount was a PITA, but I remember having an optic on my baby back in the day. Stock rattled like a buzz worm!
The whole time you thought all the murals in Ireland/Northern Ireland were just badly drawn AR-15 or M4 rifles, but they’re actually considerably more accurate representations of the AR-18 / AR-180. Great video. Also, I appreciate the reference to 6.5x52 Carcano
2:15 Thanks for the movie suggestion, I just finished Pulp Fiction and I gotta say it was way better than I remember. I can't believe M. Night Shamalamadinldong made that master piece
Hey Brandon, a lot of high-capacity steel mags(30-round curved) will benefit from a follower swap out. I used to have several units of steel Lancer brand Ar 15 40-rounders. I replaced the stock followers, with the Magpul anti-tilt followers. Replacing them solved 85% of the feeding problems. Like the follower jam/ magazine ammo dumping in the video. Also, you might try the new follower springs, esp if the magazine is been in use older than three years. Glyn Bindon promoted the oeg sight. Later developed into the Trijicon ACOG. Also one could say the AR 18 is an American AK. Cheap to manufacture, easy to use, and cost-effective.
There are SO many similarities between the AR-180 and the AR-7. The dual recoil springs, the charging handle retaining system, the bolt carrier, and of course; the "build it as cheap as possible" mentality. Hmm, the AR-7 also had mag issues with the stock steelies, too.
He's ill informed the Pira surrendered group full of informants whole Active service units shot dead.He should watch the disappeared documentary to see the Pira's type of victims from nationalist areas just vile scum.
9:06 if anyone has a red dot and is curious about an occluded eye gunsight, you can recreate it. Just put some painters tape on the front side of your red dot, so you can still see the dot and nothing beyond it. Look at a target with both eyes and you'll get the same effect.
Also for anyone having trouble with the 'both eyes open' thing, tape the front of the dot and dont remove it until you get used to it. It's a decent way to force someone to adjust.
I thought that was the common way of using a red-dot optic i.e both eyes open while shooting. Might aswell use irons if having one eye closed, but even those can be functinal with both eyes open.
That's why the aimpoint T2 lens caps have a clear window on the back cap and a solid black cap up front. If you need the gun and don't have time to pop the caps, you can still use it as an occluded sight.
Unless you have a broken brain like myself. They tried this during a match stage (put the rifle through a port that blocks the scope, but you can still see on the sides). I hit about 15' left or right. I am fully ambidextrous though, write, shoot, tools, everything I can do with either hand. As I don't have a dominant side, my brain can't ever decide and shit gets real messy if I don't have an eye closed.
Erin go Bragh Brandon! I am happy to say I have one of these exact AR-180s (Sterling mfg.) plus one of the more recent AR-180B models. Yes, it is true I bought it forever and a day ago because it was the rifle used by The Terminator in 1984.
I’ve had success using 2nd generation Pmags with my AR180. All I had to do was cut the magazine catch slot. I’ve also had a lot of success using new 20 round Stanags. There are great web sites that tell you the proper way to modify new magazines.
This rifle was the reason I pre-ordered the Gen 1 BRN180 from Brownells a few years ago, just so I could have a modern copy-cat inspiration of it...and boy do I love it
It's interesting that you mentioned the JFK incident. Wendigoon did a really good job of breaking down that scenario. I believe you two are familiar with each other.
Currently here in Canada 99% of our "sporting" rifles are all based on the AR 180 design, its nice to see an indepth video on the origins of what we are seeing here now
I've had one of those periscope type sights since 1980. It works really great and first had it mounted to a REMINGTON 742 woodsmaster chambered in .243 and could waste targets as fast as I could pull the trigger. Very fast acquisition sight. REALLY FAST!
Drinking green beer is one of my favorite St. Patrick's Day traditions, just like checking my car to see if the IRA planted a bomb under it. 🏴 #AKGNotificationSquad
@@tos4057 As an American Army officer traveling in Northern Ireland in a British marked staff car, I have seen my car go through the examination for bombs more than once.
@@ralphgreenjr.2466 Yes, measures are taken but most of the people have put the war behind them, most want to move on. Unfortunately pockets of Belfast and Derry have radical groups but most see it now as futile with Northern Ireland being very safe now.
@@tos4057 not entirely true, I have seen modern iPhone videos of common people getting into drunken brawls all over NI, especially protestant citizens getting drunk and rowdy and throwing bricks at Catholic parades… Not necessarily IRA or UVF aligned, but there is still ethno-religious tensions between the common people
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#AKG
Man I wanna see a Colt .45
#akgnotificationsquad
Can we see a minigun next? It’d be pretty cool if you can get your hands on one
#AKG
One time my son was dying of kidney disease and ar-180 overheard our conversation in the parking lot and selflessly offered his own kidney I will never forget what he's done for me and my family
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Pin this Brandon
Didn't that same AR-180 shoot Osamaa bin Laden while in the SEALs?
gun
Guns save lives.
"I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying it happened." Literally the job of every history teacher, and should be on all of their walls.
Trying to find binary right and wrong in history (or anything) is folly. We can assign better and worse people/ideologies/sides to a conflict, but actually saying the better side was fully in the right is misleading at best. The entire point of history is to learn from it, deciding "this side was right" blinds you to most of the lessons that are there, even if that was the objectively better side.
It's shocking how many parents and school board members can't recognize this and want things they see as bad removed from textbooks, as if knowing something happened will make people agree with it. Which then leads to it happening again because people don't know what went wrong the first time.
@@Bacteriophagebs what is one example with history? I can think of language and culture. Not one example in history
@@unachimba9 I can give you a few the soviets in ww2,they were vicious to the people of Germany doesn't matter if they were military or not but they were on the allied side and was getting supplies from the allies.another example again from ww2 was the nukes dropped on Japan,was it worth the entire city's population to avoid the ground invasion or not you can see it both ways and both are not entirely wrong
@@badasscrusader there is literally a movie enigma that covers this. What are you on? It's taught
The AR-180 is the only AR variety that managed to stay off the ban list in Canada. A few Canadian companies are making modern varieties and takes on this platform.
I've watched several Canadian videos, and you really have done amazing work!
Yeah but most are still shit honestly
Yeah, that sucks. Because no matter who´s coming after Clownstin Turdeau, you´re not going to get your gun rights back.
That, and companies make AR-15-style products for the AR-180, including better magazines.
too bad they're unreliable and massively expensive compared to ARs. We will have to see if they remain legal long enough for them to get better
"Ronnie, how did they end up in the hands of the IRA?"
I laughed way too hard at this 😆
1:09
“This is why Ireland isn’t free.”
ok
We from New England had nothing to do with funneling millions of doll hairs and metric tons of firearms to the Ira
@@josephsmith6777doll hairs?
He wasn't funny
As an Irishman who hates irish gun laws, thank you for this godsend brandon
You should move up North, at least there they have hand guns and shorty AKs.
@@davedavids57 or could free all 32
@@jeremiahfyan Yes you would have your freedom but shitty gun laws. At least the loyalists in the North love their guns. In 1998 when the rest of the UK banned hand guns it was the UUP and DUP who vetoed it in the North.
Hey, you sound cool, you can move to America. We will great you with open arms
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 tis the plan some day
I received my dads AR-180 about 15 yeas ago. We had modified 6 Ar-15 mags to work. Back in 2014 I found that G36 mags have the cut already in the mag and works flawlessly.
Wilson Combat mags have the slot cut in them too for some reason.
REALLY?! Does Magpul's or only standard?
Random question, but are you Irish?😂
Thats maybe because the G36 usws the same principle as the AR180
@@GHOST25938 Random question, but are you a FED?
Dont say a peep Irish bro
I'm from Ireland and a fun fact is that it was very hard to get .223 legally for hunting back during the troubles in the Republic of Ireland as they went in the Ar-180, a lot of farmers and hunters had to get .22 hornet rifles instead and a lot of gun shops have stockpiles of .22 hornet rifle that no-one uses anymore
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@@llamaimpyjama6402 you ain't funny, stop posting the exact same shit everywhere lmao
That is one of the Reasons .222 is so popular in parts of Europe.
@DesertFernweh and because it existed before the 223 and you can't use semi-auto 223s buy bolt actions
@abefroman3466 Oh No! .... Anyway
"I was stopped by a soldier, he said you are a swine
He hit me with his rifle, he kicked me in the groin.
I begged and I pleaded, me manners were polite,
but sure all the time I'm thinking of me little Armalite"
Also: "8000 Years Kathleen" haha
THERE ARE NO GAYS IN IRELAND KATHLEEN! THEY ARE SINGING MEN!
@@solovevkiril exactly :)
This is the problem.
You get all the guns ammunition and power in the world. But you will not use it. You'd rather let yourself get destroyed, just so you don't have to use it.
Therrs nooo a’ lcholics een airland Kathleen! Jimmy’s just a devil fer da drink.
@@everettrhay4855 reading that with an iris accent made it way better and somewhat more understandable
The AR-18's most lasting impression was inspiring the designs of many other modern rifle's operating systems that would come after, such as the G36
It's one of the most firearm influential designs out there, a majority of short stroke piston guns on the market are AR-18 derivatives.
You mentioned the G36 already, but the Scar, Aug, Bren, F2000 and B&T APC series (among others) are also derivatives of the AR-18.
So is the Howa Type 89
STG44 gang represent.
And slightly ironically the British SA80, they used captured Irish AR18's as a very heavy inspiration for the development.
@@TheMikeTB Yeah the British were quite a bit late to the NATO 5.56 party, probably because they realized what a piece of worthless shit the AR-15 platform is, but also because their design team is primarily English, and there's only 5 of them, and you would quickly find 2 of them murdered, and 2 more gang-raping the 5th one (Wales joke)
but nonetheless, stealing German WW2 tech was always a viable option, but apparently the constant cycle of refreshing losses on the design team with new recruits, it seemed to lead to a mathematical feedback loop wherein each subsequent generation of death incidents would spur on the subconscious telepathical panic broadcast (we think this is related to the sensation of "your life flashes before your eyes") and at least some of the neurological pattern data would be uploaded to people within 8th z-wave range resulting in the 2 replacements becoming aware and emotionally responding to the news that the English are murderers and rapists, then passing that knowledge again with the TPB, and again, and again, and again, quickly leading to the 2 replacements having an enormous rage and superhuman will with an extraordinary capacity for violence, and as the 2 murdering rapists were aging and growing weaker, the 2 replacements would gain the upper hand, this entire process only took 3 minutes and 18 seconds, the balance of power would be equalized and then briefly tip into favoritism due to the unique astrological positioning of Mars that month, and the resulting TPB from the repeatedly dying old ones would result in a perfectly aligned Z-wave collision of supreme being energy, which would instantly give birth to a cosmic entity known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army
UP THE RA
“The ATF & the gun grabbing left’s always after me lucky charms!” - Brandon Herrera
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@@llamaimpyjama6402 Just gonna keep copy/pasting this until someone validates you, huh?
@@llamaimpyjama6402 You do realize that those features are tied to the site itself and not a particular channel, right? They literally CANNOT be changed unless you were to re-code the entire site.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 Technically you don't have to do *that* much, you just need to have youtube change the textures
American leftists when they hear about armalites: 😡
Irish leftists when they hear about armalites: 😈 🔥🇬🇧 🔥
In case no one has mentioned it, the Thompson sub-machine gun also has a few Irish rebel songs dedicated to it.
"Where the bayonets flash,
and the rifles crash,
to the echoes of a Thompson gun..."
-Merry Ploughboy
Irish music is WAY too underrated.
It's got more than just Irish songs dedicated to it. They say there's this Norwegian dude named Roland with no head who's the best Thompson gunner out there.
And real good one about the SAM missle.
Even Yugoslav civil war songs mention it a few times
I own an AR180 with an original 2.75 x scope marked Armalite. I have "converted" several standard AR/NATO magazines and CHANGED THE FOLLOWERS to newer anti-tilt ones, I have had no feed problems. That was a 40 round mag in the video, more prone to problems. I find that the folding stock is a great design; I have had no problems with mine. The Barrel is a 1:12 twist and loves 55 gr. bullets 62 gr. works ok ,no key holing at 100 yards but I wouldn't run any heavier bullets . The piston gas system is flawless, clean and simple to clean. The bolt is similar to any AR 15 but not interchangeable. There is No interchangeability with AR15s on anything with the AR180. These rifles were made by Armalite in Costa Mesa California, Sterling in England and Howa in Japan. Another Piston operated AR style rifle is the Tiawanese T-91 those built uppers are still sold in the US by Wolf of Wolf Ammo and they work well also. Brownells has an upper based on the AR180 that is the most recent adaptation that they have developed. The video didn't really do the 180 much justice..IMO but Thanks anyway.
The AR-180 sounds like what a really depressed guy would use on himself Full Metal Jacket bathroom style. :(
Saw an auction coming up and they have one going through with the original sights. What's the value?
Others in the comments have pounted out that G36 mags also work great with the 180
If it works maybe you won't have to modify mags anymore.
@@BoopSnoot My first rifle as a Marine was an M-16 with Mattel plastic furniture, a few years later we moved to the "AR" with the burst mode in the early eighties. The "M-16's" were kinda "loosy goosy" by then and had some accuracy problems as they got old.
Brandon, Stoner went with a short stroke gas piston because he found himself in the bizarre situation on not being legally allowed to use the DI system that he had invented because Armalite had sold the patent to Colt in 1959. As soon as Colt's patent expired, he went right back to the DI system for the SR25.
And it's a good thing that happened, because the DI system is a pile of hot steaming dogshit.
stoner had nothing to do with the 180!! check out forgotten weapons video on it!!!
@@highsped piston is what you will take during zombie apocalypse
Someone is offended eh?
@@highsped recoil has nothing to do with piston superior it's the reliability of no gas being blown back into that oily action gumming it up and heating up the receiver!! i had a 180 and the bitch would eat all day without even a hint of needing to be cleaned due to a gummed up action 2.500-3.000 rounds through her and she'd still be ready for more!! try that in a 15! of the 7 DI driven 15's i've had over the years NONE of them would go more than 550 rounds without needing to be cleaned or having a upper that wasn't an instant finger burn!! the reason i got rid of them!!!
Brandon, as an Irishman I can tell you this video is truly based. The humour, the history, the rebel songs, spot on. The troubles is something that is still a touchy subject, but you nailed absolutely everything. Refreshing to see yanks know Irish history. There’s a pint of plain waiting for you if you ever come to this beautiful country, with dogshit gun laws.
Loads of yanks do know Irish history because we are descended from Irish immigrants, my grandmothers grand father was from Ireland. Roughly 42% of my genes come from northern and central Ireland
@@RageUnchained Most of Ireland is Celtic, but the very southern regions have olive-skinned Irish people who are the descendants of the ancient Phoenicians
They have to know someone's history, cause they're often shit at their own
@@crazysilly2914 Phoenicians ?
not the Spanish ?
@@CyberGenesis1 If we are gonna take the time out of our days to learn about irish history, you're damn right we know our own, buddy
I remember a story about an American visiting a pub in Ireland. He asks the bartender for an Irish Car Bomb. The bartender comes back with two tall shot glasses of flaming vodka. "What the hell is that!" the American asks. "We call it the flaming World Trade Center." replies the bartender.
That's probably the best comeback I've ever heard, regardless of if it's true or not.
If I got that in reply, I'd laugh so dang hard. That's a creative bartender if it happens to be true, doubtful as it is.
Lmao.
"..........................Oh."
That'd go down hard.
🤣🤣🤣
"me little armalite" and "come out ye black and tans" are staples of boogaloo
Wow, I have not heard this
No thanks
Fed
@@GodsGoofiestim against gangs like "atf""cia"
‘ a comrade on me left and another one on me right… and a clip of amunition for me little….? My fav line is ‘ remember narrow water and the bloody…🇮🇪☘️
"Ronnie, how did they end up in the hands of the IRA?" Legendary quote!
I also like how he said it in the exact tone of when a sitcom character screws up
So many fast & furious sequels
I mean... how DID they, though?
@blamau14 the story I've heard is an Irishman came over and had an irish-american that was sympathetic buy it they then took it apart and smuggled it back through the luggage
@@blamau14 very similar to the US Gov't Iran Contra thing, drugs for guns in places like Malta etc.
As an Irishman who despises the current laws thank you for this nugget of basedness.
Do you really want every knacker in Ireland to have access to guns? Really? You can get one if you actually need it.
@@Dreyno yeah a blackpowder revolver with a lengthen barrel and counterweight...
@@crazysilly2914 What?
@@Dreyno the right gun law: any civilised, respectable, non criminal record holding individual has the right to own a gun. Not Dubs, Limerick men, travellers or known scumbags
@@Dreyno "every knacker in Ireland to have access to guns?"
Yes
"One of the trigger pulls of all time" had me smiling aloud.
“We live in a society”
0.55 The 50.cal is actually pretty accurate. "The Armagh Sniper" as its known, was a sniping campaign in South Armagh. They obtained a 50.cal BMG from either the US or Libya and would sit in a small armoured car and fire out of a modified rear window with a hatch. It was fairly successful in terms of killing british soldiers and draining morale in the area.
There were rumors one of Barrett's employees was sympathetic to the IRA. The model that they preferred was the model 95 bolt action bullpup because it was cheaper and shorter making it easier to fire from the trunk of a vehicle. One famous hatchback that they used had a giant steel plate across the back with a firing slit for the 50.
the IRA? And they didn’t have the capacity to manufacture their own vehicles…They could only use repurposed cars and trucks (“lorries”)
I need me one of those.
@@crazysilly2914i think having a dedicated military vehicle would have been a problem for them actually.
@@crazysilly2914 who said they manufactured vehicles?
@@crazysilly2914 All you need is an old hatchback, some 1/2 inch steel plate and dad's old gas welder to repurpose a car for guerrilla warfare, you dunce. The only one talking about manufacturing is you.
The front pin is actually a pivot pin, just like in the AR15. There's a window at the back of the receiver set, above the stock shank, to push the recoil plate/rod assembly forward which disengages the upper from the lower to pivot down/forward. Many will use a bullet nose to do this but anything else similar would do.
just the tip
MI5 request your location 😂
Sounds like AK. Where's Brandon when you need him?
The AR180 was featured in a lot of cop shows of the 1970s as the bad-guy's rifle. Even "sniper" bad guys. In fact, growing up on those shows, I really figured random, roof-top snipers and spectacular car crashes would feature much more heavily in my life. ;)
There was an episode of "SWAT" where the bad guy had an AR18 and they made a big ass deal about how much more deadly it was than the team's M16s because it had a (gasp) FOLDING STOCK. TV has always been fucking anti-gun.
@@bb5242 - Exactly (and that's the series I had in mind). When I re-watched Quincy, MD as an adult I got pretty ticked off. That show was one big anti-gun campaign.
@@bb5242 The new SWAT or some older show? The new one hasn't been really that much anti gun afaik, but I'm only at season 4 at this point
@@bb5242 that show is complete BS, not even a good portrayal of swat teams
@@cr1tikal_arc Yup, that show was horrible! But I still watched it as a kid. As an adult, I re-watched a could of episodes and they were "woke" in their day, really lots of the same drivel we listen to today.
I love how you explain the workings of a gun as if your teaching a class of people that have just discovered modern firearms.
Im brittish n only got pellet guns until im 18 n get a license for it brandon literally taught me most things abt guns he even taught me that the full bullet and casing dosent come out the barrel ive been waching since i was 12 im 17 now and theres not a video of his i havent wached so technically he raised me i have dark humour like his same hobbys damn my dads the best i can ask for but if i was brandons son id be so damn happy hes literally saved my life i was going thru a dark patch when i was 15 and had planned it out to kms but i decided not to bc of multiple main reasons and not being able to see his vids played a big part in saving me
When your audience can vary from Gun hobbyist from U.S to californiacation who think AR-15 will blow human lung out of the body(because biden said so) to europeans where Law abiding citizens cant have guns without ridicilous hoop the loops while criminals can have it all because as it turns out, making gun more illegal does not stop the illegal firearms. It's good to explain it in detail so that people understand how the firearms really work. Because again there are people unfamiliar with firearms think that AR-15 fire scraping your ear will blow your head off.
@@LincolnTeale-bp3vlstay in school
@@tjp148 wdym
california guy here, never fired guns. but hes teaching me and i want to learn more (get me out of here please)
"I'm doing this because I hate the British"
As a Brit, I chuckled at this.
Me too m8
Yep but then I spend a lot of my time chuckling at yanks ;)
No offense brits. Lots of us feel that way…… but in a meme format obviously.
@@hardlylivin6602 All in good humour
@@hardlylivin6602Don’t worry…..we get that a lot 🤣
"This is why Ireland isn't free" *shakes tic tac box of bullets* 😂😂
They had a vote they are free
@@tomparry8877 You cannot be free without capacity for rebellion.
@@fivebrosstopmos Well said Tom.
@danny6209 it caused more division in the end you could argue, but my step-dad always says there weren't much issue between Catholic and Protestant until the English started causing it
@@tomparry8877 They are not free. It's hard to have a fair vote when the indigenous population is outnumbered by colonizers. However loyalists are now closer then ever to becoming the minority. Make no mistake friend... Tiocfaidh ár lá! 🇮🇪32💚
I actually died at”this is why Ireland isn’t free” 😂😂😂😂😂
I was just about to say that.
The real reason is because they joined the EU.
The real reason is They fought to put communists in charge, who proceeded to sell out the country and replace the population
Lol, Apple did what we never could!
Please give my regards to the family of the person you're quoting.
Instant new fan here. What a video 👌🏻 As an Irish man this really made me laugh that extra bit 😂 be safe brother! 🙏🏼
The gun copied by everybody, but loved by no one 😢
Except for me
Really it was copied? I mean if you were to copy something wouldn't it be loved? Honestly I think it looks cool.
L85 is based on the 180
@@wealthybone2990 Steyr AUG is of the AR-18 species
SIG MCX is a 180 in disguise
I did a paper on the AR-180 for my English class in college. Teacher was a huge local history buff and turns out Armalite was making AR-180s not too far from our school in the 60s.
As I was reading this I was expecting you to say your kind old Irish teacher was very familiar with the AR-180 due to him being an IRA fugitive hiding out in an American high school
@@jeremy5602 same haha
Yes , at Dagenham… last I knew it was was an industrial park, but there was possibly plans to tear it all down for a housing development
We had an AR-180 in the '90's. We found it very reliable. We didn't have any of the problems you're having. It was also designed to be a cheaper rifle than the AR-15, hence all of the stamped parts. The quality of the rifle was very good.
Brandon doesn’t have a proper mag which is his reliability problem. It wasn’t the gun’s fault.
They may not have been built to last, springs in mags lose tension and he might’ve gotten an all original set
His issues were magazine related
For a really cheap stamped rifle it handles well for a cheap stamped rifle.
I had an SA80 in the 90’s shame we didn’t meet.
What you described with the sight and the merging of the vision fields? In basic our drill sergeants made us shoot with the covers on the front of our CCO's... Because it trained us to keep both eyes open, and we could still engage targets accurately.
Pretty neat, and a good way to establish a good habit.
We got the same kind of training in the early seventies when I entered the Corps, Semper Fi brother!
That sight works just like the RCO scope marines use. They are trained to shoot with both eyes open at closer ranges. It's weird at first but it works very well. Same concept for the monocle NVGs
I had monocle NODs. All they do is make you sick to your stomach. I don't know a single oeeson who used them without that issue.
I was taught as a child to shoot with both eyes open by a neighbor who retired Gunnery Sergeant
@gullreefclub no one ever taught me to I just always have even with iron sights
Oh shit my PMI and coach never said anything about our eyes in boot camp, I just kinda shot without thinking, just doing what felt natural
@@oxide9679 Are you maybe thinking of the PVS-7? It had two occular lenses that shared the image from one objective lense/image intensifier. The PVS-14 is a monocle and no one I know has ever had a problem with them. I used one in the service and own one as well.
Fun fact, that occluded scope technique works on any scope with a red illuminated reticle, so if you have fixed/high power scope you want to use (i.e. ACOG), you can keep both eyes open for close quarters action.
agreed, this is how I shoot all red dots/no magnification
For someone like me who.. my right eye looks straight and my left eye looks to it's left, somehow I don't think this will work. I have to use one eye with irons or standard red dot lol.
This even works in VR.
As a Finnish guy with no 2nd amendment rights I find your channel, intelligence and attitude mesmerizing.
Cant you get like every gun as long as you say its for Hunting?
@@W0DAN88 Depends. Shotguns and rifles are generally easy to get if you say its for hunting. Semi-auto shotgun mag tubes are restricted to only fit 2 shells if its for hunting, making you being able to only shoot 3 shots without reloading, pump action shotguns dont have mag restrictions oddly enough. Hand guns are harder to get, but you can get some revolvers easier if its for hunting raccoon dogs for example. TLDR; yes and no, stupid regulations exist for the guns also.
Being able to get a gun permit for hunting, reguires you to have a hunting license, which can be acquired by taking a course that includes gun safety, hunting laws, learning to identify animals etc and then passing the final exam. Taking the course is not necessary but its advised, but you can do the final exam straight away also and its enough for getting a hunting license if you pass the test. Sorry for this long and cryptic answer, I'm still half asleep.
You sound like a cool guy, you can come up here to America and fire some guns. We love teaching foreigners about guns.
As a Malaysian from South East Asia, I wish I had a 2nd amendment...
I would settle for bolt action and revolvers if my country doesn't allow those M16/M4 stuff.
@@kehmeli7140 i notice if do target shooting in finland, you can get the same fire power as in the US
8 rounds into one of our armoured cars at about 30 metres and they didn't go through. It sounded like stones at first until we saw the glass getting 2 rounds on top of each other. We fu ked off pretty quickly
Hey Brandon, the plastic furniture that was "made by Mattel" was actually for the early production batches of XM16E1's that were used in the Vietnam War. I'm not sure how this myth wound up being transferred over to the AR-180, but it certainly isn't true for this weapon.
SCW? Good taste
i think it came from the earlier nicknames for the original M16's that were fielded in Vietnam, one of them being "Mattel 16". i guess ppl didn't really get their facts right and it grew to the AR-180
@jemangecul It could very well be a mix of the two, with the later M16's that were issued retaining that nickname due to also being made with plastic furniture. Combine that with earlier stories of M16 grips or handguards that had "Made by Mattel" stamps on them, and that's how a (relatively) modern myth gets born.
I enlisted in 75, many of our M-16's had Mattel furniture, it was kind of amuzing at the time.
The red dot made me think, when i was a kid and my dad taught me to shoot (w/ AK and mosin carbine) I always shot both eyes open with ironsights and I STILL swear by it. Basically a 3point version of a "2point" occluded sight.
Thank you Brandon! As an irish American I appreciate the lesson on Irish history and my little armalite
Ive been staring at his Ar-180 in his gun wall for a reeeeeaaally long time waiting for him to talk about it and I'm happy he did cause seeing it in terminator was badass
Same, its on the top 10 list of guns I wish I had
Two things here. First, and purely in terms of aesthetics, this thing is like the M16 and FAL had a beautiful baby. Second, and something I JUST learned thanks to this, the occluded eye gunsight is what's on the Rebel blaster (DH-17 for my fellow nerds) in Star Wars! Always wondered why it had a clear front end with a red fiber in it.
That sight is still being made today - Armson USA - OEG
As a texan thank you for properly representing us. Best channel on youtube hands down. Only channel I actually click on the notifications when I see them.
As another Texan, I approve this message.
Isn’t he from North Carolina not Texas?
@@Lifechanging99999 lives in Texas now
@@Lifechanging99999 don't gotta be from here to end up living here and representing the culture.
@@clutchboi4038 he’s a foreigner, I love NC, and nothing against him, but he will never be Texan, just like many of the other youtube celebrities.
As someone who grew up in Belfast in the 80s and 90s I greatly appreciate and find hilarious the comment 'This is why Ireland isn't free' and as an an immigrant and are huge supporter of the 2nd. Maybe I'll bump into you fellas at Shot Show and say hi!
Ireland (eire) is the freeist country in Europe.
I love being English and being Scottish n Irish i dont get why all of em hate on eachother like we are pretty much brothers just with different accsents ive been ireland n scotland like why u hate me for literally being born and having a English accent when if u check ur dna ur probably got allot of English irish n Scottish n nordic n there excuse is England bad no not England politics bad
@@LincolnTeale-bp3vlThey occupied Ireland that's why the infernal Anglo is that bad. An now London plays the mass migration toon Ireland's "leadership " dances to. I pray the Irish people remember who they are and fight back before its to late God willing they inspire Scottish an English men as well.
This is becoming more and more a Canadian thing as well. We have plenty of modernized AR-180 variants.
Then maybe stage a coup against Trudeau? Otherwise we are gonna have to find some oil up there so we can bring y’all some “freedom”
The ones we have over here have problems with bolt carriers cracking and problems with gas pistons
@@muffinman3111 my kodiak gen 1 has had 2 pistons replacements till I locktite’d the 3rd and it’s been mint since 🤙🏻🇨🇦
Someday maybe a manufacturer won't fuck it up but that's not today.
@@conquistador69420 how have the new gun laws affected your ownership of them?
In the early 80’s my dad introduced me to a man that was in the IRA. I asked him what that was and he said Irish Republican Army. Then I asked what he did, thinking as a child that was an actual army, he said “I was the tail gunner in a bread truck”. My dad later had to explain to me the whole deal. I thought the guy was joking because my dad and him were laughing when he said it. Dude was no joke. Ever since I’ve always had a fascination with the IRA.
“I was the tail gunner in a bread truck”
Could you explain this bit please, I'm not exactly sure what he means?
A bread truck that delivers bread to shops they would have an open trailer and the it’s would mount heavy machine guns to them. Basically what’s know in the military as technical
I recall the tales as a child of my grandfather shooting black & tans during the Easter uprising.....he went on to join Sinn Fein....and my dad moved to Canada.
@@JOSHUAPT100 the IRA would pinch a unionist delivery van. sometimes killing the driver. they would then drive it to a unionist part of town. mostly a shopping airier. what we call a highstreet. they would then seeped up to about 70 mph and a guy in the back would spray the street with bullets. the idea was to kill civilians and stop people from shopping for food and so on. they would avoided shooting a troops like this. as on the one or two times they did the 'tail gunner' always got killed.
so the guy he met. was basically saying he tried to kill mums and kids just out doing a bit of shopping. he could never have been in one of the 'tail gun' attacks on troops or police as they all got killed. he could only have been trying to kill civilians in his attacks.
@@onlyhereforddebob8978 mate they never used heavy machine guns like that. the IRA only ever one or two of them. they always used them to shoot up police stations at range. tail gunners used AKs or SMGs.
Loved also seeing the Archer references and jokes used in combination with references and jokes about Irish rebel music and the IRA. The Archer TV series did the same thing. For example in the episode where Pam was kidnapped, and ceryl asked Cheryl for a bunch of money he mentioned that he borrowed it from his IRA and Cheryl confused the individual retirement account with the provisional IRA and asked what are they going to do kneecap you? Kneecapping was a popular punishment during the troubles by all the paramilitary organizations especially the provos and was usually done by shooting the My Little armalite through your knees
The original AR-180s are... spotty in terms of build and reliability, but PWS' BRN-180 is absolutely amazing and a great modern take on the original design. I love my 18.5, it's one of my go-to guns.
Mainly Sterlings. Apparently, Howas are the best.
The mistake of the AR-18 was that they tried to make it too cheap. People looked at it, said 'this is cool, but for a little more I can have an M-16/AR-15 and those are made NICE. Then they wanted a pistol and copied the AR-18. It's the most successful failure in history because of all the copies.
The weapon selection they had at the time was quite impressive, from surplus WW1 and WW2 guns from all over, to newish US firearms (eg the barrets) smuggled M60s and M2 browings,Mp-5s and Uzis, FN Fals from raided UK bases, AK's from Chinses to Yugo, RPGS and DShKas from Soviet satellite states and even Strela Manpads.
Don't forget all the weapons and explosives USA sold and supplied them too
@HorizonGaming2013 to be fair the taliban got well stocked by USA in the 80s when they were fighting the Russians so no wonder they had the gear to fight back when Nato invaded based on a dossier full of lies. Gotta love Western meddling
Gaddafi helped em out quite a bit too.
There was a rumor that I've only heard about once and have never been able to find anything about, which said that the Russians sent 20 AN-94s to the IRA during the Troubles.... Big if true, but sounds to ridiculous to me.
infamous Czech VZ58's they used to brass up civilians with too
5:28 "freeing up a slightly used pair of kinky boots" i love how strangely specific those are. great day when i get to watch these. thank you Brandon.
It's a reference to kinky boots the song by Honor Blackman and Patrick Macnee, a parodee set to the tune of Brand New Key
Thanks. Was wondring...
This is honestly one of my favorite vids that Brandon has ever done.
The skits are great, plus the AR 180 is such a badass looking rifle.
When I was a kidof about 7 or 8 a kid in my grandparents town got blown up by the IRA leaving an IED packed in a military torch outside a territorial army (reservist) base I will never forget the effect it had on my grandmother.
And where was this town
Fun fact: the AR-18/180 was licensed to Sterling Arms and influenced the SA80A1 series of weapons for the British army, these were then improved by H&K using the also AR18 derived G36 as its base.
How could the British mess up the SA80 so bad?
@tetraxis3011 They told the workforce that they were being made redundant while they were producing the A1s, so the workers put the minimum effort into production. It's not their problem after the contract is finished.
@@tetraxis3011it's like anything though. Work on its problems and it gets better, the SA80A2/3 are fantastic though
As an Irishman I wish my nation had American gun rights.
Uniting Ireland
Expand them
And I wish the same for Scotland
as a mexican, yeah that would be pretty cool
That's something you and the Loyalist agree on then. The only pro gun political parties in the UK or Ireland are the DUP and UUP. That's why hand guns and concealed carry permits are still a thing in Northern Ireland.
A lot of years ago, I ran across some VZ-52's, mostly parts that once were imported. I built my own version of the "ar-180" using the annular piston design and some stock metal parts from Lowe's and have a very smooth operating and reliable lightweight rifle based on the 52 design. You should showcase the VZ's sometime in your videos, it's a truly innovative concept and quite reliable in my experience. A good friend of mine has a 180 which kind of inspired my build experience with piston driven rifles, the 52 gas system really simplifies the build for those who own a lathe and machine shop. It's nice and simple and low profile. Good mags and 300 blackout function very well in my rifle. I've been shooting this round for quite a few years now, and I really like it. I've got a red-dot mounted on the aluminum tube with a nice square bolt carrier. Love your videos, don't quite understand the "white claws" but to each his own.
Never seen a bolt action AR before! Very interesting design!
lol nice
They sell single shot bolt operated AR15s in the UK
Uintah sells an interesting bolt action AR platform receiver.
You have obviously never been to Cali.
For some reason its illegal to hunt in PA with an AR15 UNLESS you buy a bolt conversion kit. I have no idea why that makes a difference lol. I THOUGHT it was because .223/5.56 was too underpowered to kill large animals, but then i found out about the bolt thing and was like "wtf, why does that matter?" lol. still havent looked up the answer yet haha
Im so glad that Brandon is still on this platform.
The AR or Barrett platform?
Ah yes, St Patrick's day. The day when every American invents their Irish Heritage.
RE-invents. Did it last year, too. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm proud of my Irish free blood line! But I don't alienate Irish folk, especially Irish girls.
Independence from Britain is a huge objective. Yeah!!!
@@woodydavis8287 the republic of Ireland don't want the north they everything to avoid even talking about a united Ireland
What a dumb comment
Love the references to the rebel songs throughout. 🎶 Down in the bogside is where I want to be... 🎶
I genuinely like the dark humor some of Brandon's videos have, you know that those are done as either a recreation or just mocking of the topic in question.
And to those who get offended by that kind of humor, I say "Dark humor is just like food in Africa - not everyone will get it."
A dark sense of humour is like a good pair of legs. Some people don't have them
That's harsh. Funny, but harsh.
My sense of humor is so dark it sings when I put it to work
Or human rights - not for everyone
@@ReanuKeevesAus First of all, I'm sorry you lost your legs in a car accident...it's terrible luck to survive the war unharmed and be seriously injured in a "safe" civilian life.
Secondly, I'll ask like one soldier to another....you want an even worse joke about accidents and lost limbs..?
- What happened to me?
_ Don't worry, it's just a little scratch on your leg.
- Can I see it..?
-Unfortunately, no, the leg is in the second ambulance.
Colonel Gaddafi supplied the IRA with weapons.
Around 50% of the arms and supplies came from US civilians...and then from within Ireland and Libya. A shit ton came from US civilians and people connected to leftist trade unions that shipped them..
Around 50% of the arms and supplies came from US civilians...and then from within Ireland and Libya. A shit ton came from US civilians and people connected to leftist trade unions that shipped them..
Supposedly, the Nazis did as well. Everyone hates the British.
Based Gaddafi
Yeah he was big into the assorted Liberation Movements, of course Western Governments would call them terrorists though
Being it’s a modified AR15 mag, you might be able to use the Magpul anti-tilt followers for GI mags. Not sure how much of the mag was modified but the followers are cheap enough to try it
Thanks!
As a man with ADHD I appreciate the ADD break. Thank you Brandon.
Not really something to be proud of, it's only one up from being re_tar_ded
💯 me too yo
oh so you're now just hyperactivity...glad then
ADHD was invented by the drug companies
Yeah
9:22
Fun Fact: If you own a normal red-dot/holographic sight, you can experience the same effect by looking through the sight and focusing your eyes onto a nearby surface instead of the reticle, then covering the front lens with your hand. Might take practice to get your focus right, but it's an neat sensation.
For some people that can’t focus properly on a red dot I’ve been told you can flip down the front cover or cover the front of it to “train” urself to see it properly
That explains the blacked out front lens caps aimpoint still ships. Never knew it was an actual style of dot
@twilightzone39 isn't that the Bindon aiming concept essentially?
Occluding the dot is actually a great training tool for learning how to acquire and maintain target focus.
indeed it does work. its funny, if i paid attention to the target, it worked properly, but if i payed attention to the dot itself, my brain would use mostly information from the other eye and my vision of the target would go black, despite my eyes still being focused down range.
I remember going to the armoury in Catterick Infantry Training Centre (British Army Infantry Training Centre) in 2014 and seeing a stockpile of those things in a cage. They were all captured off of killed and captured fighters in Ireland. Since Game of Thrones was still new, the joke was that they'd be melted down into the Queen's new "iron throne".
😂 yes sitting on her throne in hell😂.
@@EireGenX oh come on dude chill the fuck out.
@@EireGenX Your baby is very cute
She needs an asbestos throne now.
Still havent given them back? Brits never stop provoking.
I had a “Sterling” variation, and it was ok, then I got a AK, which prompted me to keep the better of the 2, and I now am a AK/SKS supporter. You have the scope mount & optic(if I spent my time panning for gold in my garden I could find my weight in gold before I would find the ar180 optic set up at a gun show!) but the ease of getting a (vast variety) scope mount + optic is also a game changer. To add to your story I read somewhere that the IRA bought parts, and all the stamped assay’s were flats, which they then bent and welded, also they built stems, Mac 9’s etc…anything you could build in a garden shed. And if you’ve ever watched Sons of Anarchy…why would Cali bikers import gun kits from Ireland…when they can get excellent Mexican AK’s (to any counterfeit pattern with or without markings)just over the border?
Great description of the Occluded Eye Sight. This explains why I've never been able to shoot with them. I have a astigmatism that prevents the merging of the eyes if they are seeing 2 different things. I can concentrate on one image and the other just drifts off to the side and won't play because it's being ignored. On the plus side, it allows me to use scopes with both eyes open.
I shoot everything both eyes open. Better, too.
you have to shoot with all three eyes open
My personal weapon was an XM16E1 by General Motors. We all heard the same tale, that the furniture was made by Mattel. It holds up pretty well.
The "mattel 16" myth was just old heads at the time commenting on how light and toy-like the new plastic furniture guns felt. There was never any credibility to it, fuddlore since day one
@@callsignapollo_ Yup. The closest it ever became to being the truth was John Wayne holding an actual Mattel M16 toy in a couple short scenes in The Green Berets
I just inherited an AR-180 from my late brother. Thank you for the video. I didn't really know a lot about the rifle honestly. This was infomative.
Aye man sorry for your loss, that brings a whole nother meaning to "Lucky Charm"
🎼 "Tell her how the IRA, made you run like hell away, from the green and lovely lanes of Kilashanda!" 🍀
I always wondered why M16s or ARs weren't issued 40-round mags, now I know why
I went in the Army and there was nothing but the 20 rounders. Later we saw the 30s.
I have the feeling that the magazine shown was not made by a big proper manufacturer. If made properly, I doubt they'd have a problem.
Australia adopted a 40 round magazine for the AUG, same ammo type and I think same magazine dimensions, they do work, the issue with this magazine seems to be that it’s tilting the keeper in the magazine causing feed issues
@@larrywilson178320 rounders were used when my gramps was in Vietnam, afaik my dad was always issued 30s, he kept a lot of 30s in our house although it was quite illegal by the state law to keep them.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606ah yea 40rnd mags? In the Irish army the extended mags were kept for the lmg version, then I don't think for peacekeeping duties we could justify 40rnd mags and the extra ammo that goes with it.
I regret selling off my 180 back in the early 80s. Never had the mag problems you were fighting. I remember using GI mags with a slot cut for the 180s mag catch. Silly dovetail scope mount was a PITA, but I remember having an optic on my baby back in the day. Stock rattled like a buzz worm!
The whole time you thought all the murals in Ireland/Northern Ireland were just badly drawn AR-15 or M4 rifles, but they’re actually considerably more accurate representations of the AR-18 / AR-180.
Great video. Also, I appreciate the reference to 6.5x52 Carcano
Just Ireland* 🇮🇪
2:15 Thanks for the movie suggestion, I just finished Pulp Fiction and I gotta say it was way better than I remember. I can't believe M. Night Shamalamadinldong made that master piece
Hey Brandon, a lot of high-capacity steel mags(30-round curved) will benefit from a follower swap out. I used to have several units of steel Lancer brand Ar 15 40-rounders. I replaced the stock followers, with the Magpul anti-tilt followers. Replacing them solved 85% of the feeding problems. Like the follower jam/ magazine ammo dumping in the video. Also, you might try the new follower springs, esp if the magazine is been in use older than three years. Glyn Bindon promoted the oeg sight. Later developed into the Trijicon ACOG. Also one could say the AR 18 is an American AK. Cheap to manufacture, easy to use, and cost-effective.
Yep! You nailed it!
30 rounds isnt high capacity, its standard capacity.
and new springs. You have it apart to do the followers, might as well do the springs too if they're original. They're cheap.
Only Brandon can put a whole new spin on the phrase" blow the back out", and actually make it even funnier
In Australia it means you fckd her that hard you blew her back out.
Is it the same for other countries?
There are SO many similarities between the AR-180 and the AR-7. The dual recoil springs, the charging handle retaining system, the bolt carrier, and of course; the "build it as cheap as possible" mentality. Hmm, the AR-7 also had mag issues with the stock steelies, too.
The AR-180 - the only gun that has more warcrimes on it's belt than the M16.
Uh the AK?
@@jamsya493It’s only a warcrime if it’s reported, most of the AK war crimes weren’t recorded “officially”
Americans clutching a match in the trenches in Europe with a slam fire shot gun says what? 😂. Jk
The number of IRA jokes Brandon was able to get in here was legendary.
I actually found it quite Troubling
Kinky boots 😂
He's ill informed the Pira surrendered group full of informants whole Active service units shot dead.He should watch the disappeared documentary to see the Pira's type of victims from nationalist areas just vile scum.
Not funny at all
Go to bed Grandpa@@stewartgrindlay9760
“this is why ireland isn’t free” had me laughing so hard😂
9:06 if anyone has a red dot and is curious about an occluded eye gunsight, you can recreate it. Just put some painters tape on the front side of your red dot, so you can still see the dot and nothing beyond it.
Look at a target with both eyes and you'll get the same effect.
Also for anyone having trouble with the 'both eyes open' thing, tape the front of the dot and dont remove it until you get used to it. It's a decent way to force someone to adjust.
I thought that was the common way of using a red-dot optic i.e both eyes open while shooting. Might aswell use irons if having one eye closed, but even those can be functinal with both eyes open.
@@Glatidoz Correct, you do shoot red dots with both eyes open. But if you wanted to simulate what was described in the video, you can.
That's why the aimpoint T2 lens caps have a clear window on the back cap and a solid black cap up front. If you need the gun and don't have time to pop the caps, you can still use it as an occluded sight.
Unless you have a broken brain like myself. They tried this during a match stage (put the rifle through a port that blocks the scope, but you can still see on the sides).
I hit about 15' left or right.
I am fully ambidextrous though, write, shoot, tools, everything I can do with either hand. As I don't have a dominant side, my brain can't ever decide and shit gets real messy if I don't have an eye closed.
Erin go Bragh Brandon! I am happy to say I have one of these exact AR-180s (Sterling mfg.) plus one of the more recent AR-180B models. Yes, it is true I bought it forever and a day ago because it was the rifle used by The Terminator in 1984.
Erin go bra is a song from Scotland
Interestingly, the SA80 has the same internals as an AR-18 so watching all of those stoppages brought back a few memories...
Ironic since the SA80 is the British service rifle
@@Yeaggghurte Two equally uh, "sketch" platforms firing at each other must've sounded like an olden days line battle
'All those stoppages' Said by people who havnt actually used them since about 1991
and the awful L85 as deadly as Lee Harvey Oswald's Italian peaceful gun the dreaded (by the Italians) Carcano.
@@markiobook8639 the a1 is bad but the a3 is a great rifle
I’ve always told people that Mattel helped make the AR-15 and people don’t believe me. Thank you for shedding light to the plastics lol.
@1:50 I like what brandon said there.. I concur my guy I concur 😂😂😂😂😂
I’ve had success using 2nd generation Pmags with my AR180. All I had to do was cut the magazine catch slot. I’ve also had a lot of success using new 20 round Stanags. There are great web sites that tell you the proper way to modify new magazines.
"We're having some magazine FEED ISSUES"
"Looks like we're having some TROUBLES"
💀
As an Irishman, this video is absolutely amazing. I started howling in laughter as soon as I saw the balaclava
It reminded me of Stakeknife & how the IRA were a bunch of grassing child Murdering scum
As a irish man this video really hit the nail on the head thanks 🤣🍀🍀
This rifle was the reason I pre-ordered the Gen 1 BRN180 from Brownells a few years ago, just so I could have a modern copy-cat inspiration of it...and boy do I love it
It's interesting that you mentioned the JFK incident. Wendigoon did a really good job of breaking down that scenario. I believe you two are familiar with each other.
That RAUFOSS ROUND WAS LEGIT!!! Props to the close range .50 shot!!!!
I had to look it up. Pretty awesome even for the price.
3:12 turning the gun 180 degrees while saying AR-180 was pretty solid
I love how Scott's accident has become a verb 😂
Currently here in Canada 99% of our "sporting" rifles are all based on the AR 180 design, its nice to see an indepth video on the origins of what we are seeing here now
I'm so sorry for Canadian gun culture. Great country deserves a gun nut President.
I've had one of those periscope type sights since 1980.
It works really great and first had it mounted to a REMINGTON 742 woodsmaster chambered in .243 and could waste targets as fast as I could pull the trigger.
Very fast acquisition sight.
REALLY FAST!
“COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS!”
“COME AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN”
Drinking green beer is one of my favorite St. Patrick's Day traditions, just like checking my car to see if the IRA planted a bomb under it. 🏴 #AKGNotificationSquad
we dont drink green beer here in ireland though.
@@tos4057 As an American Army officer traveling in Northern Ireland in a British marked staff car, I have seen my car go through the examination for bombs more than once.
@@ralphgreenjr.2466 Yes, measures are taken but most of the people have put the war behind them, most want to move on. Unfortunately pockets of Belfast and Derry have radical groups but most see it now as futile with Northern Ireland being very safe now.
LOL!! That vid-thumb looks like Brandon went throught the Alien Re-Skinning machine in "The Arrival" 1996. 🤣
@@tos4057 not entirely true, I have seen modern iPhone videos of common people getting into drunken brawls all over NI, especially protestant citizens getting drunk and rowdy and throwing bricks at Catholic parades…
Not necessarily IRA or UVF aligned, but there is still ethno-religious tensions between the common people
Congratulations, Brandon! You've won yourself a brand new burgundy Vauxhall Cavalier! Here's the key, it's plate is MDZ 5211.
Weren't they called Opel Vectra's over there? I hear you can get a few potatoes in them ..
Oh my
Omagh