Posted on 06/15/2016 2:15:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In the hours after Sunday’s mass shooting at an Orlando night club, Chief John Mina of the Orlando Police Department said the gunman’s weapons included a pistol and an “AR-15-type assault rifle.”
On Monday night, officials clarified that the rifle Omar Mateen used in the shooting was not an AR-15, but a Sig Sauer MCX rifle.
While aesthetically similar to and just as lethal as an AR-15, the MCX is internally a different beast, thus all but removing it from the AR-15 family of rifles. Yet while the weapon is different, the MCX and the AR-15 share the same design purpose: providing a highly portable, customizable, easy to operate and accurate rifle for the individual who possesses it.
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As Bob Owens from the blog “Bearing Arms” points out, the MCX is a modular rifle designed to be able to change between a variety of calibers and “otherwise has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape or form.”
Originally designed for U.S. Special Operations forces, the MCX was built from the “ground up” to be lightweight and short, and it accepts “a broad array of accessories, enabling you to build a complete weapon system for any scenario or environment,” Sig Sauer’s website says.
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Thanks, I couldn’t remember the term...
Thanks
When I was in SEA 1926-1963, our unit was testing the Armalite AR-15 for suitability for use by the Vietnamese army. when I had to go on a data-collecting trip into "Indian Country" outside of Saigon I carried one. Fortunately I never had to use it. Just as well, in my opinion. Nice gun, though.
When I was in SEA 1926-1963, our unit was testing the Armalite AR-15 for suitability for use by the Vietnamese army. when I had to go on a data-collecting trip into "Indian Country" outside of Saigon I carried one. Fortunately I never had to use it. Just as well, in my opinion. Nice gun, though.
So what caliber was this Sig Sauer MCX firing?
Good. Thanks for your service.
“1926-1963”
You must be what, 108 years old?
Journalists once reported honest facts and exposed corruption. Now they are hacks on puppet strings who report as provocateurs of deception based wholly upon the agenda of their bosses.
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