Suppressor and Free float ??

[Tango125INF11b]

I don't know if this would be the right area to post this, but since it kind of pertains to my suppressor I am posting it here. I just bought a Phantom 5.56 and I am in the waiting process. Now, right now I have a carbine length free float handguard on my Armalite M4LE. I am looking to buy a free float tube with only a top rail for BUIS and bottom rail for my AFG2. Now, I already use a low profile gas block from YHM. Will it fit inside the free float tube? Now, here is the part that pertains to the suppressor. I want my suppressor to be at the tip of the free float. Kind of like this:
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/redwelkin/FreeFloat.png
Does anyone recommend not doing this?

[GarrettJ]

It may be difficult to find a free float rail that covers a 16" barrel. The picture show appears to be a short-barreled rifle, with a rail that is longer than the barrel, and the can attached.

Of course, you can't have a short-barreled rifle in Michign.

Your options would be to either build an AR15 pistol with a sub-16" barrel, or have your new can permanently attached to the barrel, making it essentially "part of the barrel" for measurement purposes.

I don't know how big your gas block is, so I can't say if it will fit under a rail.

YHM makes a rail that I like. It's smooth, with holes drilled & tapped so you can attach rails wherever you want them, and not have hand-graters everywhere else.

I suppose you could always thread two sections of rail together, as was done here. It makes for a pretty long, muzzle-heavy rifle though.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/GarrettJ/2011-12-02_22-24-45_918.jpg

[Tango125INF11b]

Troy makes a 15" tube