[Joe Hadenuf]

When I took the folding / pistol grip stock off my Mini-14 and put the wood stock back on, the muzzle velocity dropped from 3,000fps to under 100fps.

Yup, we took the bayonet lug off an AR15 and found we couldn't punch holes in a paper plate at 100 feet.

No wonder bayonet lugs are illegal....

[yarddog]

I am sure I heard somewhere that over a hundred children a day are killed by bayonet. We are fortunate that only a few hundred a day are killed by pistol grips. On the other hand, the Brady bunch says that collapsable stocks account for nearly 20,000 a year.

On the serious side, has there ever been a crime committed by a bayonet on a rifle?

[Travis McGee]

Don't even mention flash suppressors, they triple a rifle's velocity.

Unless the flash holes on the bottom are filled in, then it's a "muzzle compensator" and perfectly harmless.