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To: ops33

“If you look at the M-16 it’s not even loaded!”

No mag, but don’t bet your life that the chamber’s empty.


12 posted on 10/07/2007 1:10:28 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow

“No mag, but don’t bet your life that the chamber’s empty”

An M-16 will go bang without the clip in it, if a round is chambered. You are correct!


19 posted on 10/07/2007 2:11:29 PM PDT by cpdiii (Roughneck, (Oil Field Trash and Proud of It) Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast.)
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To: DBrow

So, either the Army didn’t trust him with any bullets or only gave him one like Barney Fife!


33 posted on 10/07/2007 7:11:08 PM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: DBrow

“If you look at the M-16 it’s not even loaded!”

No mag, but don’t bet your life that the chamber’s empty”

the M16’s chamber may be empty - but you can bet your bottom dollar that ain’t the only “empty chamber” in that picture!


37 posted on 10/08/2007 6:31:40 AM PDT by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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