Who made these uppers..?

[theduke]

I have one in 9mm and found another in 45 acp.

I had found anarticle at one time about these in SAR or some similar magazine.
I can't find that info anywhere now. I think it was Eric's brother from Lakeside machine that may have done these or something similar.

 

[planner]

The old magazine, Gun World, had an article that talked about AR uppers that fed from the side, a la STEn, they may have also written these up.

 

[theduke]

I did find that one this morning.

This would have been the same era...my guess.

I've read the article on this on before but forgot where I found it and who built it. Seeing that its Hammer fired its likely Mid 80's.

 

[saxon]

lol i looked it up a few weeks ago but CRS is acting up, that was the one on gunbroker right?

 

[theduke]

Yes Sir.
Sadly this will find a Home in New England somewhere due to the lower receiver.
I have the 9mm upper and would love the 45 but I ain't paying stoopid prices after seeing what the Encom just went for.

Here are the other 69 pics
Enjoy

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/977655740

 

[pjm204]

Yes Sir.
Sadly this will find a Home in New England somewhere due to the lower receiver.
I have the 9mm upper and would love the 45 but I ain't paying stoopid prices after seeing what the Encom just went for.

Here are the other 69 pics
Enjoy

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/977655740

I really hoped to win that encom but I wasn't willing to pay that much for it 😞

 

[theduke]

Yea ..it went a few hundred past my budget.
Survey says ...none of them were ever open bolt so I kinda lost a bit of interest in the Encom . That was the perfect package if a guy wanted one though. I'll hold out for an Eagle.

Back to this goofy upper.
Not getting much closer to identity.
I know I've read an article about these and that info was on a different site that crashed and theres 4 years of info that vanished.

 

[saxon]

Sendra Corp 45acp - Google Search

 

[theduke]

Those are side feed. and made by..""The Automatic Rifle Conversion or A.R.C was the created by Bob Pierce of A.I.I Inc from Prescott Valley, Arizona.""

Magazine Cover of the Day: Gun World Magazine July 1984

The Arms of the 80's. A Blog Dedicated to Magazines and Advertisments of Firearms from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s

armsofthe80s.blogspot.com

No evidence that Sendra ,Nesard....or any other switcharoo of the words/letters built anything besides lower rec. that may or may not be pre ban.
Lots of FA conversions were done on Sendra rec because there were lots of them avl at the time.

This rabbit hole keeps getting deeper.....