Quote Originally Posted by Deadshot2 View Post
One of these days we'll see the store that sells rifles that are built to order, ordering one day and returning to pick up the next (or same day if ordered earlier enough. Having a barrel nut makes the assembly process much more simple and with the growing use of a chassis rather than conventional stock, assembling a rifle really doesn't require a gunsmith as we knew them a decade or more ago.
Assemble? They'll just speak the options needed and the 3-D metal printer will create one while you wait.

'Course by then there will be nothing to hunt but rats, raccoons and cockroaches, and the ranges will be indoors with polymer bullets only allowed; so why bother?