Posted on 12/19/2012 5:32:37 AM PST by Kaslin
I really wish we could have the balls to call these commies what they are. But, of course, we’d be demonized and marginalized and called “kooks”.
There is one reason the left pushes for gun control and it is nothing benevolent and it is not to save lives.
It’s so people can’t fight back against subjugation.
Their goal is total control, and an armed citizenry stands in the way of that goal.
Put a bright spotlight on them.
“Their goal is total control, and an armed citizenry stands in the way of that goal.”
The minute the 2nd is overturned, it’s donskies for America.
I started putting together an AR-15 - been researching for months and started buying components recently. The CT shootings made me accelerate my schedule a bit.
The hardest part, by far, isn’t learning about the weapon, choosing the right components to insure functionality/reliability, or making those parts work together.
The hardest part is trying to figure out what the applicable federal laws say, try to interpret what they mean, and guess how they apply.
With an AR-15 (and I suspect other rifles in it’s class), you can add (or remove) several parts that can have little to nothing to do with the capability of the weapon and immediately go from legal, to felony possession.
And that completely leaves out the possibility and danger of misinterpretation by any LEOs you might come in contact with, who likely understand the relevant legislation less than the rifle owner.
It’s beyond crazy.
A not too distant analogy would be putting a huge spoiler ana a fart can muffler on a Civic and saying it’s now legally a race car.
I’m stealin’ that pic!
Can someone tell me if the Bushmaster AR15 receiver actually has .223 stamped on it?
Doesnt that limit them to only .223 ammo?
Short question with a long answer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Remington
“While the 5.56mm NATO and .223 Remington cartridges and chamberings are very similar, they are not identical.
While there is a myth that 5.56 NATO cases are thicker and hence have less capacity than commercial .223 cases, this has been shown to be false. Each brand of case and each manufacturing lot has a slightly different case capacity; 5.56 NATO and .223 commercial cases tend to have nearly identical case capacity when measured using the water test. The NATO specification allows a higher chamber pressure. NATO EPVAT test barrels made for 5.56mm NATO measure chamber pressure at the case mouth, as opposed to the location used by the United States civil standards organization SAAMI. The piezoelectric sensors or transducers NATO and SAAMI use to conduct the actual pressure measurements also differ. This difference in measurement method accounts for upwards of 137.9 megapascals (20,000 psi) difference in pressure measurements. This means the NATO EPVAT maximum service pressure of 430 megapascals (62,000 psi) for 5.56mm NATO, is reduced by SAAMI to 379.21 megapascals (55,000 psi) for .223 Remington. In contrast to SAAMI, the other main civil standards organization C.I.P. defines the maximum service and proof test pressures of the .223 Remington cartridge equal to the 5.56mm NATO.
The 5.56mm NATO chambering, known as a NATO or mil-spec chamber, has a longer leade (also referred to as the throat), which is the distance between the mouth of the cartridge and the point at which the rifling engages the bullet. The .223 Remington chambering, known as SAAMI chamber, is allowed to have a shorter leade, and is only required to be proof tested to the lower SAAMI chamber pressure. To address these issues, various proprietary chambers exist, such as the Wylde chamber (Bill Wylde)or the ArmaLite chamber, which are designed to handle both 5.56mm NATO and .223 Remington equally well. The dimensions and leade of the .223 Remington minimum C.I.P. chamber also differ from the 5.56mm NATO chamber specification.
Using commercial .223 Remington cartridges in a 5.56mm NATO chambered rifle should work reliably, but generally will not be as accurate as when fired from a .223 Remington chambered gun due to the longer leade. Using 5.56mm NATO mil-spec cartridges (such as the M855) in a .223 Remington chambered rifle can lead to excessive wear and stress on the rifle and even be unsafe, and the SAAMI recommends against the practice. Some commercial rifles marked as “.223 Remington” are in fact suited for 5.56mm NATO, such as many commercial AR-15 variants and the Ruger Mini-14, but the manufacturer should always be consulted to verify that this is acceptable before attempting it, and signs of excessive pressure (such as flattening or gas staining of the primers) should be looked for in the initial testing with 5.56mm NATO ammunition.”
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So, to sum up, shooting .223 Rem ammo from a rifle chambered in 5.56 NATO is perfectly safe but the round might not be as accurate as when fired from a .223 Rem chamber. Shooting 5.56 NATO ammo from a rifle chambered in .223 Rem is probably OK but there is a one-in-a-million chance something bad could happen(over-pressure). Still, people do it all day and don’t worry about it. Some .223 Rem chambers are engineered to handle the pressure of 5.56 NATO cartridge. I’d be careful, though, because some aren’t. Check the website of the rifle’s manufacturer.
I know all that and just wanted to confirm that the Bushmaster has .223 on it as oppsed to 5.56. I live Cali and could never see one.
Which brings us to the real reason DiFi, Schmucky Chucky, and above all The Impostor _Resident want to confiscate your firearm.
It isn't the bayonet lug, or the flash hider, or the pistol grip.
It's the fact that it's ...
YOUR
.....weapon.
As time goes by, the likelihood of an accident due to overpressure should decline with wear, should it not?
This is a point emphasized and warned against by George Orwell, about Communists (of whom Obama is one): that is, deliberately vague and misleading use of language.
Orwell watched in horror as the Spanish Stalinists used this kind of trickery to isolate, turn on, and then arrest and try their erstwhile Labor Syndicalist allies in the Spanish Republican movement. The reason was to get control of the Republican movement and war effort -- it didn't matter that the Republicans were sustaining grave reverses at the hands of Franco's Phalange during this time, or that the Communists' wrangling and grabbing for control was actually hurting the overall cause. The Communists actually ended up executing numbers of "trial" victims.
In the course of these betrayals and murderous control grabs, Orwell himself was forced to flee Spain, injured gravely and for life (he was unfit for service when he volunteered in Britain a few years later).
Thereafter, he warned everyone who'd listen about the treachery of Communists and their weaselly language, which he lit up prominently in both Animal Farm and 1984.
what is the purpose of a flash supresser other than just what the name implies?
are they going to ban pink stocks because they are attractive to females?
perhaps we should start to focus on decriminalizing accessories which are removable. This would mean no “magic number” of accessories.
Perhaps what REALLY needs to happen is real safety classes should be mandated in the schools. By real I mean real, not left wing double speak nonsense.
We’ve come a long way from 1962 when Thomas J Dodd and Emanuel Cellar proposed the first Federal registration for handguns.
“WE don’t want to take your guns away, we ONLY want to register them! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected!-Dodd & Cellar.
What they did not tell you...
(”And we want to ban the import of 5 shot bolt action military surplus rifles and handguns to protect the CT gunmakers”)
1980..”WE only want to regulate handguns! Rifles and long guns are not the problem!”-HCI release
1981 “The NRA is a RIFLE ORGANIZATION! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their rifles!”-Lee Grant on GMA
And another.
Why are they?
What are they?
In Israel- teachers are armed.l With weapons in clear sight of all.
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