Posted on 03/18/2015 12:00:08 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
In their fight against ISIS, the Kurdish army known as Peshmerga has a secret weapon – a second-generation gunsmith so skilled he can practically turn a bucket of rusty bolts into a killing machine for the rugged, but cash-strapped, fighting force.
Bakhtiar Aziz works in a dimly lit basement shop in Erbil, refurbishing guns taken from the enemy, bringing broken and even decades-old firearms back to life and helping to outfit an army as short on weapons as it is long on heart. On a recent day, he inspected an M-16A4 assault rifle badly damaged in a coalition airstrike. Pocked with holes, missing a large section of the barrel and with human hair wedged in its moving parts, the gun was found by Peshmerga soldiers near the town of Gwer.
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Obastard is more interested in letting ISIS win than defeating them. He WANTS an Islamic caliphate over the whole Mideast.
I had read many years ago that the village gunsmith in any Kurdish town was always its most valuable citizen.
I see what ya did there. Pretty damn funny.
Probably found it in one of their Humvees.
Peshmerga has a secret weapon -- a second-generation gunsmith so skilled he can practically turn a bucket of rusty bolts into a killing machine for the rugged, but cash-strapped, fighting force. Bakhtiar Aziz works in a dimly lit basement shop in Erbil...Hey, why not publish the street address and a photo of the guy? Media water carriers for Islamofascism strike again!
Frankly, I think they did think it through. This is the media we are talking about here, not the "friendlies".
target. My first thought. Kind of like when former SEALs write or talk or Biden opens his mouth.
How the hell do you fix that? Can you weld it?
Anyone know where they were originally from? Lots of pics show white with blue eyes, blond hair.
J B Weld?The holes aren’t in a load bearing area.
So just file off the burrs and back at it?
I’ve made permanent repairs to weapons using JB Weld to mold a screw milling spot which could not be drilled and tapped. The key to using JB Weld for repairs to weapons is to score the metal to which you want to apply the Weld and allow the epoxy to dry completely before working on it. I will let things dry for three days sometimes before drilling or tapping.
There was a news story a few years ago where 20,000 M 16s were stolen from a Kuwaiti warehouse.
The upper receiver looked intact,it’s main function is to guide the bolt.So yes,get the burrs removed so the bolt could travel freely and fill the hole with epoxy.The weapon would be safe to fire.
Do you really have to publically ask, let alone even think of that question?
Seriously.
ah, thanks.
If the bolt still reciprocates, you don't need to fix either one of those holes. One is in the mag well, so it doesn't matter, and the other is well behind the bolt face, so it doesn't matter.
There's also a dent in the mag well, and that would probably prevent a magazine from being fully inserted. You'd have to pound out that dent first.
Thank you, thank you very much . . . of course, I stole that from somebody - but who is really watching.
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