Did you get anywhere with this? I thought about building one from an 80% receiver, but the recent scare has caused everyone to buy the parts kits that I planned on using. Plenty of AK 74 parts kits floating around, but no AK 47's.

I can't wait to see some pictures.
Did you have any problems with the Romanian Kit? I've found a few on gunbroker that claim to be in excellent condition for $225. I'm thinking of picking up one.
Did you complete your own receiver from a flat or did you buy a completed one?

Glad to hear some progress was made on your build!  I have dug in deep to get my personal projects taken care of due to recent events.  I just hope I hear back about my orders soon as I ordered parts just before the price hike but the orders have not shipped.  I would be real ticked if they cancelled them and made me re buy everything at hiked up prices.

If the rifling bit is true, you could always make a saiga 12 :)

Chrome-M-Dragon

So wait, I have some stuff I would like to add. Garage guns, or homemade guns ARE legal in the US as long as the barrel is not rifled. As far as I knew making a gun is perfectly legal until you rifle it then you have issues.... So I'm confused as to how you are able to "Legally" do this, especially in Jersey haha. 

I dunno, I don't follow gun laws, I'm not allowed to own one anyway... Not legally that is.

 
From what I understand you can manufacture rifles for your own use without a license from the ATF. You can't sell or give them away however. 

If that's the case, I know what my next hobby will be.

I will be undertaking an AR 80% lower next.  You can make your own weapons legally FEDERALLY (regardless of rifling) As long as you are the sole owner and user and not transferring it to anyone... but your state might have different laws against it.

When do I ever do easy?

I would rather make a flamethrower, also legal in most states because of the africanized honey bee scare.
 
"Yes. There are currently no federal laws governing or restricting the ownership of flame-throwing devices. Some states have laws restricting possession of flamethrowers, with violations only considered to be misdemeanors, but 40 states have absolutely no laws whatsoever concerning flamethrowers. Only in America would a device capable of launching rivers of fire at people be less regulated than *insert green plan here*<---edited"
 
More on the garage guns thing:
 
"Homemade firearms. They are also known as garage guns, Chechnyan Firecrackers and scrap weapons. Most garage guns are made out of easily acquired pieces of trash and industrial debris. They can be as simple as a lead tube with a rubber-band-powered firing pin, or a fully automatic pistol made out of aluminum cans and assorted sprockets. You can make one. Improvised firearms are legal under federal law, as long as the weapon does not violate any existing gun laws. You can even make silencers and sawed-off homemade shotguns if you get the proper tax stamps. There are a variety of guides for building home-made guns available for free online.
 
Why?? First of all, because a gun with an unrifled barrel is only accurate to a few inches. Since most professionally manufactured firearms are legal in the USA, banning homemade ones doesn't make much sense. Neither China, the gun-control capital of the world, nor Russia have been able to stop their dissident populations from building their own firearms. Since you can literally build a gun out of the contents of a trash bin, any laws made to stop self-made firearms would be almost unenforceable.

 
 There are also only something like 11 miniguns (The M134 General Electric Minigun) that are legal to own in the U.S as well (to whomever said build you one of those).
 
There is also tannerite, thermite and other things. I wouldn't mind using thermite ones simply to see it create as much heat as it's said to create. Tannerite (Wiley pete I think) doesn't thrill me, things going boom do not impress lol...

Over 30 pictures being uploaded now... 

Can't wait to see some pics Nate!!

As far as building your home rifle, it is leagal up to the currently enacted limitations of buying a gun.  Unless you posses a Class 3 license you can not own any fully automatic machine gun made after 1989 (i think), and the regestered transferable ones (pre 89) require a $200 tax stamp.  Becasue of that as far as I know it is not legal to build your own Automatic weapon unless it is on a regestered receiver since before the ban in 89.  You can buy newer machine guns with a Class 3 but they are "Dealer Samples" so they can only be sold to other dealers or law/mil.

That looks great. Any advice for a potential builder?

Dude, That is awesome.

How about headspacing? Was there anything to that? I have seen a few people claim that it is the hardest part if you don't have a matching barrel with your parts kit.
Also, where did you get your 80% receivers from?

stephen92

How about headspacing? Was there anything to that? I have seen a few people claim that it is the hardest part if you don't have a matching barrel with your parts kit.
Also, where did you get your 80% receivers from?

I head spaced it with the proper gauges.  I "suppose" if you put an actual round in it you could get the spacing, but I had a buddy buy a kit that was "pre-head spaced" and when I put the gauges on his they weren't correct.  A round did fit in the chamber and the bolt seated.  I don't trust it without the proper gauges so I fixed it for him.  There is a reason they make these gauges and have tolerances.