[elbucko]

M14s are classified as machineguns.

Are you sure?

During my 8 years in the Army I never saw a fully auto M-14. The Army considered full auto an "ammo waster" (so do I).

[Rasputin_TheMadMonk]

Another vietnam legacy, massed firepower was equated to increased lethality. It's still just takes a single bullet to render a target neutralized.

It's a poor rifleman who needs to empty a 20 round magazine to eliminate a single target.

[Hoverbug]

In basic tng 1969, the m-14s we had were semi-only because the selector had been removed, but could be restored to selective. The DI's were shooting a full auto M-14 one day at the range.

Hb

[Kadric]

The M14s were origially fullauto. A lot of them had the selector either removed or blocked not due to waste of ammo but because the rifle is barely controllable by a experinced person on full auto. The E2 stock helped some, it is a pistol grip.

[gwmoore]

M14s are classified as machineguns.

Are you sure?

YUP.. as originally mfg, the M14 was select fire, however most of them at some point had the select fire removed, and the selector hole in the frame plugged. Ok, now they are semi, right? WRONG... the ATF says "once a full auto, always a full auto".

There are the civvy manufactured ones that are built as semi (Springfield Armory) and the rare ones that are pre '86 and thus transferrable.

That is another piece of stupid firearm legislation that probably affects less than 2-3% of all firearm owners, because all it has done is create a price war on transferrable full auto firearms. Pathetic, worse than EBay/

Keep the Faith for Freedom

Greg