Same gun
Posted on 05/07/2020 8:04:20 AM PDT by rogerantone1
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Elder on his national radio show about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement last Friday.
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IIRC what is meant by “military grade” is “government purchased” which in reality is equal to lowest bidder... or is it fully automatic or perhaps in full tactical kit...which would interestingly lead to the ban on tactical flashlights, cam mounts, all the optional accessories which adapt to the system approach to gearing up.
Both of those weapons were,at that time,absolutely "military" in every way.However,it's my understanding that the AR-15 is semi automatic *only*...just as so many other rifles of the day are.Easily available rifles at that.
The AR-15 *looks* military...but would never be used by the US military.
“ The AR-15 *looks* military...but would never be used by the US military. ”
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Back in the day, during Feinstein’s ban, we referred to her law as the “Ugly Gun Law.” Her law had numerous criteria by which a gun could be banned but none changed functionality from numerous guns used for hunting and sport.
AR-15 not only looks military but many are made to military specs or even improved.
Our soldiers would be well equipped with an AR-15. Spray and pray are highly overrated “tactics”.
Somehow Garands made it as semi-auto only in WW2.
Personally, I would PREFER a M1 Garand in 7.62x51 NATO to “The Mattel Special” in a lot of tactical environments.
(The USN had a great many Garand rifles converted from .30-06 to 7.62 NATO.)
Note: About 2 years before the M-14 Rifle was adopted by DoD, Beretta offered to convert ALL of the US Garand rifles to “Type 1, BM59 configuration”, which would fire semi-auto or full-auto, for 80.oo each.
(I have a friend in Houston who does that same conversion, in semi-auto only, of Garand rifles, so that the modified Garands will accept M14 magazines.= His “conversions” work very well indeed.)
Wen several of us were with a “mobile training team”, “way down yonder”, I could carry any handgun or long-gun that we had access to.
Not wishing to carry a M16, I “issued myself” a 8-shot Ithaca Model 37 riot-gun (loaded with 00 buckshot) & also routinely carried a pair of BHP.
Yours, TMN78247
USA, Retired
Same gun
The Las Vegas shooter, whom we’ll never know anything about because F’ing FBI usual suspects In charge of framing Trump were in charge of the investigation, was a dumbass to use bumpstocks. Thankfully, as a well practiced marksmen would have done so much more harm. How many rounds did he burn up and how many hits? Never really saw that anywhere. Anyway, Fck Trudo.
Well that’s another problem solved. All liberals know it’s easier to ban than to think.
“The Mattel Special”
Back in the late 1960s, one of the MEN’S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES had a cover in which a wounded soldier was holding an M-16 while a blond nurse was administering an IV to him, while the VC were storming the field hospital.
A quick look showed the “M-16” to be a carbon copy of the Mattel toy rifle.
At one time MATTEL actually contracted to produce replacement stocks & handguards for the US military.
Yours, TMN78247
SORRY. I hit the send button before I realized that I had not noted that that magazine cover is based on an actual incident, wherein about 50 or more VC soldiers attacked an Army field hospital.
The PFC was a POL Tanker driver & the ONLY armed US servicemember at the exact location where the attack on the hospital ward occurred. - I remember that it was said in an ARMY TIMES article that, “Truck drivers can be real heroes, too.”
(The PFC killed more than a dozen VC & wounded several more before “the enemy forces withdrew”. - The soldier received at least two more gunshot wounds during the attack.)
Actually, the wounded soldier was “confined to bed” as a result of numerous SEVERE wounds & the major surgery to repair his gunshot/shrapnel wounds.
(If I remember correctly, the soldier was awarded another PH & the DSC for his valor, while “confined to bed”.)
Yours, TMN78247
USAMPR, Retired
The “aluminum” frame of that particular M-16 shown on the men’s magazine looks exactly like the Mattel toy gun. The real M-16 does not have the raised section on it.
Cover of the magazine... NEW MAN Oct 1968.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9f/c8/a8/9fc8a81c2e5e9b75cf4aa8ef33c67f77.jpg
Real M-16-1A
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2015/06/M163-2.jpg
Yes,if I had been thinking rationally I would have said “magazine”.
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