Trajectory Arms

What a wild ride the last few weeks have been and it's just getting started!
If you haven't heard already, we are taking over production of the Allen Engineering AEM5. This has been in motion for a while but we finally have a bunch of the components here and ready for assembly. I also started page so if you are into clones or AE cans in general, make sure to follow for updates. We have already been fitting collars and that sort of work for a long time now so it's awesome to be able to bring this legendary suppressor under our roof with Ron Allen's guidance.
On top of that, we have already outgrown our shop in less than 2 years! We have reorganized the shop several times to make things work but we are standing on top of each other quite often. An incredible opportunity came up that I couldnt pass up so we will be moving soon (hence the redacted location, for now). It will also enable us to offer more in house services we couldn't before like cerakote along with purchase some machines we have wanted for a while. While I don't anticipate much down time for the move in regards to upper builds and machine work, we won't be able to take serialized stuff for about 30 days once we submit the address change to ATF. I will post more details about this soon but if you are thinking if sending work in, get it here ASAP.
Speaking of machine work, we are picking up another gunsmith lathe today so we should be able to significantly increase the throughput of barrel work at the new place.
I'm incredibly thankful for all of you who have supported us over the last couple years! I'm also super proud of our team who have worked so hard to build this. This company is much more than just me. Trajectory Arms is a dedicated team of people joined by a mission to always put our best foot forward regardless of what we do.
I'm humbled and excited by everything ahead of us. Thank you for coming along with us!

You don't understand, I wasn't asking.
This is that barrel nut I posted in the stories a little while back that broke the armorer wrenches. The index pin and receiver were damaged from too much torque applied to the BN during installation in an attempt to get the holes to align for the gas tube. The barrel nut was the type that needed to be aligned with the upper receiver for the tube to slip through. The excessive torque in combination with whatever schmoo was used on the threads locked it up tight. I was given permission to scrap the BN in an attempt to save the barrel and receiver if possible. After removing the out ring by cutting relief cuts in it and prying it off, even the pipe wrench wouldn't break the nut free. So it went in the lathe and I relieved the barrel nut. Eventually after relieving enough material, the tool snagged the nut and twisted it off.
This one gets a prize for most difficult barrel nut we have had to remove.
The good news is with a bit of fitting and trickery, we can probably make the receiver and barrel serviceable again.
The gunsmith that did this likely didn't have much experience with ARs. Gunsmith =/= AR armorer and vice versa. Be careful who you send your work to.
Remember that I post these things not to shame anyone but to reinforce why we do things a certain way so we can all learn from it.