Posted on 05/10/2010 10:28:42 AM PDT by Perseverando
I certainly didn’t see anything in that post that required removal by a moderator???
Must have given someone a headache...
Ok, now I get it...
I tend to miss stuff...;-)
They needed an M14 replacement too - it makes sense to acquire weapons that have commonality of parts and controls.
Wow!, very nice. Thanks for posting that link.
May 11, 8:20 AM EDT
Police find 100-plus guns stolen from collector
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Police investigators found more than 100 handguns and rifles hidden in a Muncie garage that had been stolen from a gun collector’s home.
City police Capt. Mark Vollmar says investigators also arrested a 39-year-old woman who organized last week’s burglary, along with her son and four others who participated.
Vollmar said the woman had befriended the 70-year-old gun collector a few weeks before he recently moved into a nursing home.
The 120-gun collection worth up to $200,000 included a 1908 pocket pistol, cowboy-style lever action rifles from the 1800s and World War I handguns.
Vollmar says a fisherman found one gun in Prairie Creek Reservoir and that the thieves had difficulty finding buyers or people willing to store the weapons.
With 50 gazillion trillion rounds of 5.56 in inventory, I reckon we have a long wait for a truly more effective combat round. BTW, Army shooting skills are much MUCH improved over VN days!
Agreed but I really question just how much inventory we really have. While ammo prices are coming down somewhat finding decent priced 5.56Nato ammo is still tricky.
From what I’ve understood from a couple of Marine buddies, the Corps is pretty much standardizing on the MK-262. I figured this would drive M855 ammo down but it hasn’t yet.
I doubt we’ll move away in mass from the 5.56Nato unless the commanders trump the dean-counters at some point and I don’t see that happening. While I’m not a big fan of the 5.56 Nato I do have a rifle that shoots it because it will likely be an easy round to find in an emergency.
“The worst part is that it cannot be unseen.
Please don’t ask me what I was thinking.”
My psychiatrist wants to know your billing address. He thinks I can be cured after a few more visits.
I use this weapon in COD!
I’ll need like three of these at least.
For SHTF the more rounds the better imo. Most people aren’t getting up after getting hit by 5.56 (except maybe a Somali on khat) assuming they aren’t dead.
Possibly, but DOD did order up a mess of that new Mk318 5.56 ammo for the units fielding the SCAR.
Agree.......
LOL!
OMG...Okay, Laz, you made that up, didn’t you.
Umm...didn’t you?
Seriously, though, I didn’t have any problem understanding the article. I guess when I see it refer to some kind of “Mk 888 Gobbledygook Modular System” I just substitute “bolt on large exploding fragmenty deadly thingy” and happily read onwards.
Hehehe!
I did. I'm good!
False, very. All of the tests were very subjective. Further dust/dirt material is very different from place to place and what and how a jam occurs is different. Some types of material the material reacts with heat and forms corrosiaon, others it is mechcanincal bridgeing, still others form other chemicals. Even more chemically/heat inert type 'soils' vary in size, shape, moisture. What happens is that people read of an ad hoc test, with one type of material and they a result showing gun A is good, gun B is bad. That doesn't tell you about the rest of the world. If you tune a gun for one specific type of soil/conditions it may be the worst in something else. The Army sent soil specialists to Iraq and they basically threw their hands up because there is so much diverse stuff blowing around. Everything from glass sand, to highly corrosive high Ph soils.
FNH may be Belgian but they have had a long association with the United States and the American shooting community via John Moses Browning. They produced a lot of Browning’s designs, and when Browning passed on his pupil at FNH, Dieudonne Saive, completed Browning’s last design the 9mm High Power. Saive escaped to Britain during the Nazi Occupation, and later designed the FN-49 and the FN-FAL, which was the standard rifle of nearly every NATO country (and almost became our standard rifle.) FNH has manufacturing plants in the US, and unlike some European firearms companies (HELLO H&K!) they support the 2nd Amendment and offer semi auto versions of their military weapons (PN90, FS2000, SCAR) to US civilian shooters.
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