Please everybody be sure to look at the video that's at the Fox site...it's truly "Mahvellous", showing heavy machine gun versions of this weapons system.
Kudos to the Fox reporter who does his report from the range and is shown shooting the shoulder rifle version. Wooo Hooo! We wouldn't likely see Lesley Stahl or Connie Chung doing that now would we? :-)
Although this weapon gets my blood pressure up, I fear that the current "assault weapons" ban, if extended, will prevent any private citizens from getting one.
Here's another tangible reason for doing whatever you can to insure it's defeat when it expires.
I heard the M-16s won't be demilitarized for public consumption. They'll just toss them or sell them to other nations.
>>>>I fear that the current "assault weapons" ban, if extended, will prevent any private citizens from getting one. Here's another tangible reason for doing whatever you can to insure it's defeat when it expires.
At most the assault weapons ban will stop you from getting a semiauto version. Whether its renewed or not you can't get the xm-8 any more than you can get the military's M-16.
All we can hope for are the scraps, but of course the scraps are better than starving.
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".... showing heavy machine gun versions of this weapons system."
Ahhh, no. Heavy machine guns shoot heavy rounds like the .50 BMG round, not little bitty 5.56mm NATO rounds (or even 6.8mm SPC rounds). What you are speaking of is a *light* machine gun version of the H&K XM-8 infantry weapons system, probably for use on Hummers and such.