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To: 1rudeboy

That’s an M14. The Clinton Administration gave away tons of them to the three Baltic nations in the mid-late 1990s.

I remember when the giveaway happened...there had been a lot of hope at the time that the CMP might finally be allowed to sell/issue genuine M14s for target use. There were a LOT of angry people as a result of this.

Lithuania now makes its own 7.62 NATO ammo for them...a bunch of it (essentially brand-new but made pre-NATO-certification) was released on the surplus market maybe eight years ago. Shooters still speak reverently of it.


32 posted on 06/13/2012 8:49:38 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: 1rudeboy

U.S. Rifle, 7.62mm, M14. Beautiful, and I don’t mean
the president of Lithuania.


37 posted on 06/13/2012 11:13:58 AM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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