I was lowding powder into this round and then went looking for something to use as a projectile.
Want an invite once I get this thing pounded together????
Posted on 01/02/2004 9:41:05 AM PST by jimkress
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:09:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
"The National Safety Council “Injury Facts 2003” reports that since 1993, firearm homicides are down 41 percent, and fatal firearm accidents have dropped 49 percent to the lowest levels since records have been kept, beginning in 1903.
While any accidental fatality is tragic, to keep matters in perspective, please consider that in 2002 there were 44,000 accidental automobile deaths, 15,700 accidental poisoning deaths, 14,500 accidental deaths caused by falls, 4,200 accidental deaths caused by suffocation by ingested objects, 3,000 accidental drowning deaths, 2,900 accidental deaths caused by fires, flames, and smoke, 2,900 accidental deaths caused by mechanical suffocation, and 1,000 accidental deaths caused by natural heat or cold, while accidental firearms deaths dropped to 776. No other category has seen such a consistent and dramatic decline."
Imagine that !!!
(we can overlook the near-miss of a certain M-16..:))
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Oh, man!
Has Eaker been shooting someone's M-16?
Well, that M-16 owner now has a sack full of pieces he can cry over.
I know the pain.
All I have left of my M-1 are memories......
RIP
Sad...so sad...am sure you flew your USMC Flag at half-staff for months after that tragedy...
I was lowding powder into this round and then went looking for something to use as a projectile.
Want an invite once I get this thing pounded together????
Stay Sa...........oh never mind ......;o)
I may come up with a bunch more and I knew "someone" could use the shot. :o)
While we're on that subject, I'll never buy another product from Springfield Armory.
The runaround I got trying to get my money back on a rifle that obviously had a manufacturing defect was ridiculous.
The first attempt at shifting the blame was the "expert" telling me that the M-1 Garand could not be fired one round at a time.
I told him that was strange since in the Marine Corps we didn't get clips of ammo until we had fired for a week on the range. It was always one round at a time.
Their second attempt was telling me that off the shelf ammo was not meant to be fired in the M-1 - only military ammo with tougher primers to accomodate the floating firing pin.
Since I had fired at least a thousand rounds of off the shelf ammo through an older M-1 I had, that didn't hold water, either.
Then they wanted me to pay for the shipping both ways!
They flatly refused to issue a warning to the other buyers of these M-1s saying that all the warnings were already covered in the brochure that comes with their rifles.
My attorney told me that there was no way to force them to comply with my request.
Since the picture of that exploded M-1 has been circulated all over the world, I thought that might suffice.
I hope Tom has better luck with them with his medical bills.
To me, they're a chicken s**t company, and I'll never do business with them again.
I have a SA M1A "loaded" version that hasn't had a round thru it. Brand NIB and a M1A built up from a bare receiver with TRW parts. My Treasure is a M1 Garand that was DCM vs CMP of recent time. It was korean war era production and came out of an Army armory in Alabama per my serial number trace while I was active duty.
The old garand still is the perfect tool for all round use albeit a heavy bitch to hump around. My TRW parts gun ona SA receiver is my favorite. The new "loaded" version may never get a round in it.......investment gun for when they are so expensive I can trade it for a new truck. My only other SA product in my safes is a custom 1911A1 that started from bare NM frame and slide I purchased in early 80's from them. All good thus far.... cept maybe for the new M1A which is now suspect by SA suspect manufacturing reputation based on your Eakerish Event !
Stay Safe !..........Sorry they treated ya that way......
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