Posted on 06/06/2014 10:38:08 AM PDT by george76
A Vermont gun importer is blaming the White House for its laying off of 41 workers because the government blocked its plan to bring nearly $30 million worth of antique, American-made military rifles home from South Korea... Century International Arms to re-import the World War II-era M1 Garand rifles ..
This importation was denied despite our explaining that the denial would harm the company and pointing out that there is no rational, gun-control reason to block the importation of these historic, 70-year-old firearms
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the South Korean government had been given preliminary approval for the deal last year and the departments of State, Defense and Justice had signed off on it.
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Ir’s an eight round magazine. I trained with one in ROTC in 1963.
Many years ago in Officers’ Basic at Ft. Lee, VA, I shot Expert with an M14. Sweetest shooting large bore rifle I ever fired. Later I bought a M1A in 1986. You can’t go wrong with one as long as you’re willing to pop for the initial price of about $1,200.
Does the ‘03 Springfield use a stripper clip? If so, that’s what I was confusing with the M1. Obviously, rifles are not my area of expertise when it comes to firearms.
I have a Century AR-15 that is a tack driver. Never jams no matter how many times I shoot and don't clean it. I reckon even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut.
You may have one of the few good ones they ever made. Other people have had such poorly assembled AR’s from Century that they had kabooms on the first pull of the trigger.
They even manage to screw up what was previously thought to be impossible to screw up - Century has made unusable and non-working AKs!
Did you know that you can load two rounds in a 8-round en-bloc clip for competition purposes? You make an X with them (looking at the clip from the side so one tip points up, the other down), and hold them snug, and you can load them. It works for the 10-round rapid fire sessions for CMP Garand matches. Two rounds, ping, reload, 8 more, ping. It's a beautiful noise!
The two-round demo starts at about 2:50 into this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6_o-5vOm-A
By denying import approval the weapons will be sold somewhere else, perhaps Sudan to Muslims. Obama will like that, Yes he will !!
An eight round clip is ‘’high capacity’’?
According to the state department circa 2009 in their original import rejection and the Brady campaign when the state department punted the resulting questions to their advisors the Brady bunchers.
Trust me, it is stupid
But they are doing it for a very evil reason that “makes sense” from their objective to ban all firearms.
That this isn’t more widely known is horrifying.
I was waiting for an M1 for the longest time but they were always out at CMP so I settled for a chinese T53 nagant.
The ammo was , and is , plentiful and cheap. It shoots long and accurately. I dropped it into an archangle polymer stock, scoped it and now it is a thing of beauty.
Kicks like a drunk mule but I love it. Not bad for a $125 weapon.
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I have a large dream list of rifles I’ll never have the money to own.
Most range from WWI to roughly 1960 vintage.
But a man can dream.
Cons:
The gun and its accessories are expensive.
Twenty-round magazines are twenty dollars + a pop (compare to PTR-91 magazines, which you can get for between one and three dollars). This will make stocking up harder and we all know that magazines are currently in the crosshairs of the gun grabbers.
They tend to be heavy depending on whether you get wood or synthetic stocks. The magazines and ammo are also heavy, limiting how much you can carry. Also, unless you’re getting the SOCOM model, they’re long and awkward, which can be an issue depending on your height.
Ammo is expensive (you can buy two twenty-round boxes of 5.56 for the price of one twenty-round box of 308). Same rule as with the price of magazines applies.
To my knowledge, there aren’t any 22 conversion kits for the M1A, which means target shooting is going to be expensive.
The largest amount of bulk 308 ammo you can get is five hundred rounds, and you’ll pay more than you would for a thousand round box of 5.56.
308 kicks like a mule. You will notice this after firing off a few mags.
Pros:
If word from Vietnam is any sign, the gun is reliable and hard-hitting. Anything you hit with it is likely to stay down.
You can load the gun with stripper clips.
The bolt locks back after the last round is fired and is close enough to make charging the gun easy.
Just to let you know, I followed the same road you did (got a PTR-91), and then all of those cons reared their ugly head, especially after I read about the pros of the AR15 and 5.56 round. I don’t know what you’re planning on using the firearm for, but bear in mind that there is a reason a majority of the world’s armies got rid of long-range, heavy caliber rifles and switched over to lighter guns with lighter ammo.
If nothing else, you might consider getting an AR in 308, that way, if you decide you do want to try 5.56, it’s just a matter of switching out some parts rather than buying a whole new gun.
We all know that that’s just a smokescreen. Hell, the shooting in California showed us what a joke magazine limits are.
Yep, a bad case of Garand thumb. I’m a factory certified armorer for mini 14’s and during the couse I succumbed to the bite of a garand type action. It eventually healed, but that thumbnail is twice as thick as the other!
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