Now that those JBTs down at BATFE have destroyed Cav Arms (remember kids, Always Think Forfeiture), the two CavAid 2008 stripped lowers I ordered probably won’t ever come. Thus, I need to find another source of lowers, and I’ve settled on Anvil Arms.
Anvil makes mil-spec stripped lowers just like everyone else, but they also throw in laser engraving on the mag well for free. They have a gallery of some of the cooler things people have had engraved here. I need ideas for what to etch on a couple of lowers for my upcoming AR builds. My ideas so far:
- the Simon Jester grinning devil icon from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- “ultima ratio regum” (Last Argument of Kings), said to be inscribed on the cannons of King Louie XIV
- AR15.com bolt face logo
- “Molon Labe” or “Come and Get Them”, King Leonidas’ response to Xerxes’ demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons, according to Plutarch’s history of the event
- “Always Think Forfeiture”, the motto silkscreened onto a large order of Leatherman tools for BATFE’s asset forfeiture group responsible for the theft of property from those such as Cav Arms not accused of any crime
- One of the American Revolution battle flags, http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/flags.htm. I especially like the Culpeper flag of the Culpeper Virginia Minutemen
- A line drawing of a lamb carrying an AR-15, in the style of the Lamb Triumphant, as a subtle reference to the famous Ben Franklin quote (misattributed unfortunately)
- The image and motto (Sic Semper Tyranis, or “Thus Always to Tyrants”) of the Virginia flag
- DEXA (ΔΕΞΑΙ in the Greek alphabet), Greek for “Take That!”, carved into stone projectiles used by Greek slingers (Note: some Internet articles claim dexa means “catch!”, but according to Warry’s Warfare in the Classical World and the appropriate entry in William Smith’s A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, “Take That” or “Take This” is the correct translation, which is supported by this Biblical concordance entry)
