HisSoldier- instead of telling us teachers what we need to teach, maybe Teach your own children about firearms at home, like the OP has done with his build. When the COVID clears up, go volunteer at your local middle or high school for a couple of months and scratch the surface of what a teacher deals with on a day to day basis. This teacher can tell you about the National Firearms Act of 1934, why it was enacted, and discuss the racist overtones of it as the violent acts in the newspapers were being committed by the Dirty Italians and Dirty Irish, the “illegals” of yesteryear. We can also discuss the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the social abuses that led to that legislation, the complete fallacy of the mythical “American Gunslinging Cowboy”, how in fact the civil was WAS about slavery and capitalism... if you want to educate, start with original source materials.
Just like the OP, who started with bits of metal and assembled his own AR. GREAT JOB!
My personal opinion is that ain’t no pistol, just like holding a scale model of a howitzer in your hand doesn’t make it a pistol, but the OP knows every pin and spring in that firearm and when the novelty wears off, he has the know how now to make it in to any sort of rifle as suits his fancy.
The fellas making 1911s... I wish I had the full up metal shop I once had access to. Beautiful work, all of ya.