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In Reversal, Army Bans High-Performance Rifle Mags
Military.com ^ | May 25, 2012 | Matthew Cox

Posted on 05/26/2012 4:29:16 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

The Army has ordered that soldiers may use only government-issued magazines with their M4 carbines, a move that effectively bans one of the most dependable and widely used commercial-made magazines on today’s battlefield.

The past decade of war has spawned a wave of innovation in the commercial soldier weapons and equipment market. As a result, trigger-pullers in the Army, Marines and various service special operations communities now go to war armed with commercially designed kit that’s been tested under the most extreme combat conditions.

Near the top of such advancements is the PMAG polymer M4 magazine, introduced by Magpul Industries Corp. in 2007. Its rugged design has made it as one of the top performers in the small-arms accessory arena, according to combat veterans who credit the PMAG with drastically improving the reliability of the M4.

Despite the success of the PMAG, Army officials from the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command issued a “safety of use message” in April that placed it, and all other polymer magazines, on an unauthorized list.

This seems to be a complete policy reversal, since PMAGs are standard issue with the Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment and they have been routinely issued to infantry units before war-zone deployments.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: army; banglist; magazines; military; pmag; troops; usarmy
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To: Lazamataz
Every time an American soldier dies, the Muslim Kenyan Obama smiles and thanks Allah.

But we all remember the look on his face -- that scowling, sullen sulky-poo -- in that infamous photo from the Situation Room during the Osama Bin Laden raid.

Funny how those SEALs wound up real dead within two months.

Wonder if Barky did a "Uriah the Hittite" on them?

81 posted on 05/27/2012 2:35:59 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: hoosierham
The Union soldier was on a political mission,the Southern was defending his home.

That is exactly right.

The only people who "won" that war never saw a shot fired in anger ..... but chowed down heartily every damn day of the war, and probably a few times at Delmonico's in New York (assuming they were already open by then).

Except for the few that went out with Lincoln to the parapets to look at Juban Early's Confederates during his famous demonstration before Washington in 1864.

82 posted on 05/27/2012 2:46:16 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: LibLieSlayer

Jug Eared communist indeed!!! Good post, not that I know #### about polymer mags but now I do


83 posted on 05/27/2012 2:50:58 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: HenpeckedCon
The South didn’t have the industrial capacity to match the Union’s arms manufacturing and they certainly wouldn’t have been able to purchase arms from Colt or Winchester.

They must have purchased something like half a million Enfield muzzle-loaders ..... and a rather elaborate "gun" called the C.S.S. Shenandoah ... hard to explain why numbers of English repeaters didn't find their way into Confederate service.

Chowderheaded retro-blimps running procurement programs in Horse Guards Parade? No repeaters for Her Majesty's troops => no repeaters for General Polk either?

84 posted on 05/27/2012 2:53:59 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Funny how those SEALs wound up real dead within two months.

My theory is due to all the strutting and bragging and publicity out of the Obama Administration, the mujahdeen tried extra hard to get intelligence on our Special Forces, Seals etc. Maybe they bribed and threatened the right high-up people. Or maybe well placed Pakistani gave them the intel to find and observe Seal operations then shoot down the helicopter at an opportune time

About 2 months after Osama Bin Laden was killed 30 Navy Seals died in that helicopter shoot down-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023123/Special-forces-helicopter-shot-Afghanistan-mission-rescue-fellow-Navy-SEALs.html

 

85 posted on 05/27/2012 3:05:02 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: FreedomPoster
Here are two MARSOC operators at FOB TODD in Northern Afghanistan.
86 posted on 05/27/2012 3:08:42 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Gas & Petroleum Junkie)
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To: Recon Dad

Great pic. Those guys don’t look like they would give a crap about a gear pronouncement made by a REMF in CONUS.

Check out post #78, more corroboration on this.


87 posted on 05/27/2012 4:38:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dennisw
Thanks... they just want to even the field for camel humpers and their AK47 garden hoses.

LLS

88 posted on 05/27/2012 6:38:41 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: BwanaNdege

“As an experiment, try reading the following:

Lv th Lrd yr Gd wth ll yr hrt

If you were able to “figure out” that the above string of letters reads “Love the Lord your God with all your heart,” (Deut 6:5), then you might be able to see how a language could be entirely made up of consonants—with the reader supplying the missing vowels.””

OK - I can read and add in vowels as I read.

But, try as I have, I can’t find the second clause of the NtStl commandment. You know, the “Nr gt yr cngrsscrttr t stl fr u.”

It has to be there, but I can’t seem to see it.


89 posted on 05/27/2012 8:50:42 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: GladesGuru

You’ve got me stumped.

“NtStl”???

I think that “Nr gt yr cngrsscrttr t stl fr u.” Is “Never get your congresscritter to ??stl?? for you.”

stl = steal?


90 posted on 05/27/2012 9:02:08 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: BwanaNdege

Real close - “Nor Get Thy CongressCritter To Steal For You”.


91 posted on 05/27/2012 9:25:19 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: GladesGuru

A simple application of “Thous Shall Not Covet” would do wonders for balancing the budget!

Of course, it would put the Democrats out of business! and a lot of Republicans & Independents, too!

Temper it with, “Give, and it shall be given unto you”, “If a man does not work, don’t let him eat” and a number of other Biblical admonitions and this would be a nice country.

Again, John Adams nailed it, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”


92 posted on 05/27/2012 10:43:33 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: norton

The SMLE lost its magazine cutoff (along with a bunch of other outdated features like “volley sights”) in 1916. I think the model was the No. 1 Mk III*.

Back home in the States, 1903 Springfield rifles continued to sport a cutoff right to the end of production in 1944-45.


93 posted on 05/27/2012 9:22:38 PM 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: The KG9 Kid

Real mature, there... As a retired Army grunt, I agree the beret worn by all is absurd. However, there are goof-balls in every service - I deeply admire the Marine Corps, but they have the same amount of politically correct career climbers as any other service. They have, thankfully, have kept their uniforms dignified and simple, though.


94 posted on 05/28/2012 2:36:56 AM PDT by Nathaniel (- A Man Without A Cross -)
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To: lentulusgracchus

“hard to explain why numbers of English repeaters didn’t find their way into Confederate service.

If I remember correctly, the English didn’t issue their own troops a repeater until the Lee-Metford Rifle in the 1880s. I think the answer to that question would be, they didn’t have any to sell.


95 posted on 05/28/2012 10:08:11 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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