The block being a forged part of the barrel is such a no brainer simplification to the platform.

Hopefully the new barrel will be made available in a 300BLK upper kit...with the slap mod of course.

When is the mike 47 coming out I want one of those it's badass

I sure hope the mike 47 (which should've been called the mike 103 for consistency's sake) comes with a threaded barrel option too. Not everybody wants to have to spend an extra couple hundred dollars getting a blast deflector for that thing. Plus, if you don't want to/can't use keymo then you have to pay a gunsmith to machine that brake down and put threads on it. Is it still 16" at that point? Who knows, that would really suck though if it wasn't.

Is that a 556 or 762??