Posted on 10/13/2017 3:39:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yes mass murder is insane. Sorry but that is a well established historical fact. The insanity of it happens for different reasons, such as group pressure or personal power.
And yes the 9/11 hijackers were insane.
As I said the Army had a refit program when I was there in 1967:
April 20, 2017
Green Jungle, Black Rifle; The M16 in Vietnam
“In the end, the solution to the problem of higher cyclic rates came from an earlier issue, that of light primer strikes. In the original AR-15 design, the bolt moves under the influence of an recoil spring and recoil spring guide, which lacks any buffering effect. With this design, however, the rifle is vulnerable to bolt bounce and attendant light primer strikes. To resolve this, the action spring guide was replaced with a buffer. Adopted in December 1966, this new design not only fixed the issue of bolt bounce, but coincidentally lowered the cyclic rate, even when using faster WC846 ball powder. The Army seized upon this, and initiated a refit program to replace all recoil spring guides with buffers. Completed by late fall of 1967, the buffer refit program reduced the rate of malfunction, even with WC846, to half of that of rifles with recoil spring guides. (.25/1000 vs .49/1000). 1968 testing in Panama found M16A1 rifles with buffers using ball powder to be more reliable than those using original IMR powder. Though ball powder has a deservedly poor reputation for being an untested change to a combat rifle, its issues were definitively solved with the buffer refit program.”
https://advanceandreview.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/green-jungle-black-rifle-the-m16-in-vietnam/
I’m not a gun guy and the first time that I ever fired a gun (the DI’s punished us if we said “gun” instead of rifle),- was in Army basic training.
In any event, regarding the select fire, I do remember that the few times we were issued an M16 was when we were assigned to inner perimeter guard duty at our Army airfield.
As support troops we were not permitted otherwise to have a weapon in our tents. We were required to see the Company Armorer to get a M16, 2 mags and 2 grenades signed out and returned after guard duty. I definitely remember that those M16s would not fire on full auto. So I assume that the Armorer made modification on those with the select fire switch or something else.
Considering that it has now been over half a Century since I was there in Vietnam, I remember little of that time, the reason being that when many of us returned we threw away all of our uniforms and documents in an attempt to fit into a society that hated and shunned Vietnam veterans. Most of in mixed company did not talk about our experiences over there and suppressed memories out of necessity. I remember when filling out job applications to make sure that I did not enter any information that I was a Vietnam vet, because Hollywood portrayed us all as crazy as you know.
Even Obama not long ago stated that all of us veterans were ‘victims’ and couldn’t be trusted with a firearm, especially if we needed assistance at home.
In 1967 we arrived in II Corp to build a PSP runway for an airfield and waited two months for our Army aircraft to arrive by ship. Our outer perimeter was guarded by ROK (Republic of Korea) troops and we were only allowed to use their range once, where we didn’t fire the M16s after that.
Half of us were transferred to IV Corp where we had to start over again in tents and begin building wood barracks on the airfield there. Our outer perimeter was guarded by ARVN troops.
I was only until TET in January 1968 when our airfield was attacked that we were permitted to retain our own issued M16 rather than having to sign one out and in to the Armorer there.
People in the military today are amazed at what the U.S. Army did in the early years of the war to control support troops from either shooting themselves or another troop by accidental discharges. I still have a photo of my locker with a hole blown in and fragments blown out caused by a round coming from one of the guys returning from guard duty after attempting to eject a live round. The guys in the tent with me had to pull me off that guy before I strangled him.
Anyway of my two best Army buddies from my Company, one died from cancer last year and the other now has cancer, both from the effects of Agent Orange.
He was spraying a crowd, not targeting individuals. Accuracy was of little concern.
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