KE Arms Polymer Lowers

[ChemDave]

Anyone have experience with these? And polymer lowers in general? Thx

[Ronin]

Anyone have experience with these? And polymer lowers in general? Thx

I just bought a KE Arms lower. It's waiting at my FFL to pick it up. Not sure what I'm going to use it with, but I got a good deal on a FDE, so I figured why not. The reviews have been good. It was designed for the WWSD 2020 rifle that InRangeTV and Brownell's collaborated on last year.

As far as other polymer lowers, can't say. I'm sure Emptymag will be along shortly to extol the virtues of one of his.

[Steve_NEPhila]

I have one of the GWACS last generation polymer lowers that I bought in 2018 or so and it runs. No issues with it after many competitions, multiple carbine classes and lots of practice... The new KE Arms polymer lower is a derivative of the old GWACS lower design, as I believe they bought their intellectual property and further improved it to make the KP 15. Buy one and run it...

[joelad]

I have a KE Arms KP-15 lower. I assembled it on an Aero flattop upper with no FA. A 16" Faxon pencil barrel and carbon fiber MLOK handguard. A JSE surplus nickle boron coated BCG.

It's nearly complete. Just gotta get a selector detent spring. I was going for a clone of their WWSD rifle. It's very light weight. They reccommed a standard carbine buffer be used.

[Emptymag]

Just buy it.

I have 2 of the previous version made by GWACS Armory.
They are not remotely the "junk" that standard polymer lowers sometimes tend to be.

This new incarnation has a few upgrades to it. I really want to pick one up.

Tip: it can be cheaper to buy directly from KE Arms and use a code (found on arfcom) to get a better price than Brownell's $99 sale price.
I'll look up the code when I'm at home.

[Emptymag]

Just buy it.

I have 2 of the previous version made by GWACS Armory.
They are not remotely the "junk" that standard polymer lowers sometimes tend to be.

This new incarnation has a few upgrades to it. I really want to pick one up.

Tip: it can be cheaper to buy directly from KE Arms and use a code (found on arfcom) to get a better price than Brownell's $99 sale price.
I'll look up the code when I'm at home.

[joelad]

I bought mine stripped from Brownells. I bought the trapdoor buttplate and an ambi selector from KE Arms.

A word of caution: The hammer pin is proprietary. It''s longer than the standard AR hammer pin. The trigger pin is normal length. Brownells sells the longer pin. It fits a few different lowers.

[Emptymag]

Just buy it.

I have 2 of the previous version made by GWACS Armory.
They are not remotely the "junk" that standard polymer lowers sometimes tend to be.

This new incarnation has a few upgrades to it. I really want to pick one up.

Tip: it can be cheaper to buy directly from KE Arms and use a code (found on arfcom) to get a better price than Brownell's $99 sale price.
I'll look up the code when I'm at home.

http://www.kearms.com/products-for-kp15

Coupon code: 15IR19 (15% off?)

COUPON CODE NOT TO BE USED ON BLEMS - the website will allow it, but they will not honor it - it says so in the description for the blems

[Emptymag]

I bought mine stripped from Brownells. I bought the trapdoor buttplate and an ambi selector from KE Arms.

A word of caution: The hammer pin is proprietary. It''s longer than the standard AR hammer pin. The trigger pin is normal length. Brownells sells the longer pin. It fits a few different lowers.

You don't need the "proprietary" hammer pin. Nobody ever needed them before.
It can't hurt to use it, but it's not necessary - a standard hammer pin works just fine.

[Emptymag]

Oh shit! They are releasing a 9mm version too!

(pre-order)

http://www.kearms.com/kp-9-ar