Not even really close to the same gun.................lots of different (expensive) parts in the civilian model at the $1,750 price.
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Different trigger, BCG and rail but the heart of the guns are the same. Nothing on there adds up to $1000 difference. Now they claimed they were giving LE a price break or they would've been $1500 guns.
Well, not to belabor the point, but yeah, there's close to $900 difference in the different parts, including the charging handle, muzzle device, trigger, rail, BCG, grip, ambi-safety...............the rail on the civilian version is a $325 item alone.
Can't tell if there are any difference in the barrel itself or not.
Doesn't really matter, still an expensive gun w/o a high end barrel, relatively speaking................but a similar KAC will run you $2,200; a BCM around $14-1,500.
If I build a high end gun with comparable parts & a good SS barrel, I'll have $1600 in parts; I've done enough of them to be certain in that number, depending on what upper & lower I use................the uppers & lowers used on the Geiselle stuff is pretty basic mil-spec.
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