{"id":12142,"date":"2020-06-18T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/18\/update-on-wwsd2020-what-would-stoner-do-project\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:46:45","slug":"update-on-wwsd2020-what-would-stoner-do-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/18\/update-on-wwsd2020-what-would-stoner-do-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on WWSD2020 (What Would Stoner Do) Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aqf6RXPyD4A?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>WWSD (What Would Stoner Do) is a project Karl and I did in 2017, to experiment with using modern AR components to create a rifle that met the original design intent of the AR-15\/M16. That is to say, a very light and handy rifle using cutting edge modern materials. We used a monolithic polymer receiver (combining stock, grip, buffer tube, and receiver into a single component), pencil-weight barrel with modern surface treatments and stress relief, carbon fiber handguard, fully ambidextrous controls, captive recoil spring assembly, and other modernized elements. The result was a rifle capable of excellent accuracy, excellent reliability (including passing the infamous InRange mud test), and weighing less than 6 pounds with an optic and sling.<\/p>\n<p>We were approached by Brownells and KE Arms about developing the concept into a commercially available product, and the result was the WWSD2020, announced by Brownells at SHOT Show 2020. It is based on the KP-15 polymer lower receiver, designed and produced by KE Arms.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not familiar with the WWSD project, here is a playlist of all the material on it from InRangeTV:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLj9u4Ts2NpEuyUMbu1Pe3yXtez7CwkW8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLj9u4Ts2NpEuyUMbu1Pe3yXtez7CwkW8c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWSD (What Would Stoner Do) is a project Karl and I did in 2017, to experiment with using modern AR components to create a rifle that met the original design intent of the AR-15\/M16. That is to say, a very light and handy rifle using cutting edge modern materials. We used a monolithic polymer receiver&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/18\/update-on-wwsd2020-what-would-stoner-do-project\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on WWSD2020 (What Would Stoner Do) Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12864,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions\/12864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}