Comments by "Pete Sheppard" (@petesheppard1709) on "M14E2 Semiauto Clone" video.

  1. The little cylinder on the side is actually the selector lock, and is on all M14s. For FA, it was replaced with the actual selector switch. Springfield Armory marketed an E2 kit as a catalogue item as late as the mid-90s. I bought my personal M1A while working for a distributor, and he had one in stock. While cool, I wanted a rifle as close as possible to the M14 I trained with at Marine Corps OCS back in '75. Amusingly, at one point, the M14 was supposed to replace not only the M1 and BAR, but also the M2 carbine AND the M3 subgun!!
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