The military and the arms makers call that device on the M-14 and M-16 a "flash hider". They removed the military-defined "flash hider" and installed a "muzzle brake". Has Springfield Armory been illegally selling "CA-compliant" rifles with muzzle brakes for the last 20 years? I think not. By themselves, the side plumes are not small. Think of the two plasma jets coming out of the cylinder gap of a 357 or 44 magnum revolver. This would tend to increase total luminosity. One from each port in addition to the plume that is directed forward. If nothing else, a brakes creates two or more plumes. View QuoteTotal luminosity and maybe even total irradiance would be the relevant characteristics, not "brightness", not color temperature, none of that. Forget about suppressors: any device intended to reduce noise is legally a no-go zone. Suppressors are nearly impossible to haver in California (dealers, manufacturers and law enforcement excepted). On the registered ARs, I use whatever I feel like (which happens to be a device that mostly redirects the noise forward, without affecting recoil, since I'm mostly interested in a pleasant shooting environment for myself and my friends on the line).
On my personal guns, the non-registered featureless guns (which are not allowed to have any evil feature) have only thread protectors or just straight unthreaded barrels. What I'm saying is: even a device that's intended to and sold to primarily control the exhaust gases might reduce the visible flash enough for it to be legally problematic. Because nothing prevents a local DA from getting an expert witness to measure the brightness of the flash, and if the exhaust gases are dispersed enough to dissipate the muzzle rise or kick, then they are also likely to emit less light. That's probably true, but I would not rely on it. Now conversely, one would think that a device that is called a muzzle break is not a flash hider in the legal sense.
AR A2 FLASH HIDER 2 IN MOVIE
Just check out this picture from my favorite gun movie - Heat, Kilmer is shooting an 11.5" barrel with an A1 flash hider.View QuoteThe test the state DoJ seems to us is: If the device is sold or advertised as a flash hider, then it is definitely a flash hider. It would depend on the barrel length - shorter barrel = more flash, longer barrel = less flash (more time for the powder to burn). You realize that's special effects, right? Just check out this picture from my favorite gun movie - Heat, Kilmer is shooting an 11.5" barrel with an A1 flash hider.looks impressive! I am aware of the other flash hiders available my question is really just about the A2 versus the A1. Those enhancements are easy enough to see and appreciate.īut from the standpoint of just flash hiding, it seems that the A2's lack of the ventral ports that the A1 has would cause it to actually direct more flash towards the shooter's field of view, thus making it a somewhat less effective flash hider than the A1. As an improvement over the A1 birdcage, the A2 flash hider has a closed bottom that a.) presumably combats muzzle rise to some degree and b.) ameliorates or eliminates a dust signature when firing prone.
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