We won’t technically be installing a Flash Hider, but the BattleComp 1.5 Compensator. Today in our fifth installment of the DIY AR-15 Build Upper, we’ll be installing the Flash Hider. DIY AR-15 Build: Lubrication, Assembly and Firing.DIY AR-15 Build – Welding and Checking the Headspace.DIY AR-15 Build – Bolt Carrier Group Installation.DIY AR-15 Build: Muzzle Device Installation.DIY AR-15 Build: Front Sight Base Installation.DIY AR-15 Build: Barrel and Free-Float Rail System Installation.DIY AR-15 Build: Ejection Port Cover and Forward Assist Installation.DIY AR-15 Build: Upper Receiver Assembly Introduction.If it tests well, hoping to deliver by end of calendar year. (Just a heads-up shameless plug: we're working on a featureless comp, to be priced around $40, that doesn't reduce flash at all. That being said, if you want to be ultra squeaky clean, go for a thread protector. (Which makes the ranges loud AF, ug.) So if they decided those didn't qualify, there's no way they'd arrest thousands of people. Pretty much everybody is running a brake right now. The bit that gets you is the first 'or.' Even if it's not 'designed' or 'intended' to be a flash hider, as long as it 'functions' to 'redirect' flash out of your field of view, that would technically be a flash hider. “Flash suppressor” means any device attached to the end of the barrel, that is designed, intended, or functions to perceptibly reduce or redirect muzzle flash from the shooter's field of vision. And the brakes did reduce flash quite a bit. Jeremy over at the Truth About Guns did a killer Flash Hider Roundup, where he compared flash reduction across a bunch of different muzzle devices, including a couple brakes. That's kind of the rub when talking about muzzle brakes: turns out, most of them reduce flash quite a lot, even if they're not trying to. If you want to be extra cautious, keep whatever packaging the comp comes in in your range box or bag if it's got a product description on it clearly stating it's a comp without any mention of flash reducing properties. Something like a thread protector with a different crown geometry could theoretically cause a reduction in perceived flash.īut that caveat is so convoluted and unlikely there's no need to worry about it. So theoretically, because the law is so arbitrary and open ended, if a muzzle device reduces flash by. There is no mention in the law on how they would test or prove a device reduces flash, and as far as I know, there's never been a court case on it. The only small caveat I have is that CA laws considers a muzzle device to be a flash hider if it has flash reducing properties, even if they're not advertised. The V2 has no mention of flash reducing properties in it's advertising, so it should be fine.

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