Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1.  @notschramm3461  A Co 1-50th here, 3rd Plt "Terminators". It would be many years later when I learned the true meaning of SPORTS: SLAP the soldier PULL him around the corner OBSERVE for witnesses RELEASE the soldier TELL no one SEEK legal advice
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  2. Ha ha! You win for today veli!
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  3.  @redwolfexr  There isn't a loophole to exercising our rights. The Attorney General and Congress were allowed to get away with violating the Bill of Rights in 1934, and now we have to correct their criminal misconduct by whatever means necessary.
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  4. Wait until you have to carry linked 7.62 NATO as part of a gun team in a Weapons Squad in a Light Infantry, Airborne, or Airmobile unit.  Loads of fun!  We used to frequently find piles of linked 7.62 NATO that AGs, and ABs had dumped from their rucks at night while moving through the woods.
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  5.  @scvmfvck  Shootings at Parkland vs Mao Zedong and Stalin massacres is an easy choice.
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  6. I was in 7 different Combat Arms units.  I never saw one of my ABs or AGs dump rounds from the ruck, but found several piles in different training areas.  These were blanks, not live rounds.  Even the blanks weigh so much that you end up with a spine-crushing ruck.  When I did my time as an AG, we didn't have any ABs, so I got to carry the combat load in ammo plus tripod, T&E, pintle, Steiner binos, and my packing list.  It required my Weapons Squad Leader and Gunner both to lift me up after I had donned my ruck on the ground. We normally expended all of our live ammo, so I never saw things escalate to Judicial Punishment.  My point is that 7.62 NATO is too heavy of a round to carry practically by dismounted Infantry in any significant round count, especially for gun teams and riflemen.  Even 5 x 20rd mags of 7.62 NATO is very heavy and bulky for a rifleman to carry.  The Army Ordnance Board refused to learn the lessons that had already been learned in The Great War, which drove the development of the .276 Pedersen, and continued to insist on a .30 caliber, high pressure cartridge with over 40gr of case volume.  This is a recipe for reduced combat endurance for any dismounted unit trying to prosecute the fight and maneuver.
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  7.  @OldieBugger  Russian accents are one of the worst butcheries of Suomi I’ve ever heard.
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  8. AKs are one of the most failure-prone assault rifle designs on the planet. These two myths need to die, and inevitably do with experience. First time I shot AKs in high volume, 3 or 4 of them broke.
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  9. SBR provisions were a comedy of errors, not intentional. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings didn't even want to mention or discuss rifles. His main goals were banning pistols, Submachineguns, and Sawed-off shotguns. Congressman Knutson from Minnesota was afraid that people's rifles would be lumped in with Short Barreled Shotguns. The initial legislative proposal set Short Barreled Shotguns at 16" minimum barrel length. Congressman Knutson proposed that both rifles and shotguns be limited to 18" for extra credit to appease AG Cummings, but Cummings was very evasive about even discussing rifles with any regulations because he knew that could "poison-pill" the legislation. When they went through the final round of formalizing the NFA language, it almost made it without the Knutson modification, but Knutson spoke up when they said "shotguns with a shorter barrel than 16 inches", to remind them they had discussed both shotguns and rifles at 18". That's where SBRs came from. Pistols were scratched from it after testimony from the NRA President at the time. If you read through the entire NFA proceedings as I have done, you see what a clown show it was. Cummings openly admitted that it was unconstitutional.
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  10.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  False equivalency. Practicing medicine and exercising your right to keep and bear arms are entirely different things from a Constitutional standpoint. Study critical thinking pillars and the intellectual standards to prevent yourself from forming fallacy arguments. It will save you a lot of time and wasted effort in the long run.
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  11. @Albo alt USAF purchased 3 different 20" AR-15 models from Colt in the 1960s-1980s. Colt RO 601 "Green Rifle" Colt RO 602 Colt RO 604 which had all of the 603 (M16A1) improvements except the forward assist. That included the Type E stock with cleaning kit compartment, heavy buffer/spring guide, full fence lower receiver, raised markings upper, 1/12" twist rifling, chrome-lined chamber and bore, and bird cage flash hider.
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  12.  @jtplays7411  Finnish is 100% phonetic. That’s your only freebie. The rest is a brutal undertaking as an adult. 23 different post-positions rather than any prepositional phrases in English, called astevaihtelut.  Then you have to use a vocal harmony to change the objects to conform to the post-positional phrasing.  There are no articles, which is harder for Finns to adjust to English and other languages with them.  Instead of saying, “I’m going to the house.”  Minä mennen kotiin. (Dictionary house is “koti”.) or “I’m from Helsinki.”  Mina olen Helsingistä. or “I’m going to Helsinki.” Minä mennen Helsingiin. Just when you think you’ve figured out the astevaihtelu and vokaaliharmonia, things change. Seinäjoki the city's astevaihtelu in one form is Seinaäjoelta if someone is "from there", not Seinäjoistä. “H"s are all pronounced as well. 16 cases for nouns in the singular, 15 in plural. English-speaker: "What are noun cases?" 6 different verb types with concepts that don’t exist in English. A Finnish-English dictionary or Finnish-any language dictionary is almost worthless, other than maybe Estonian. The words are not usable in most cases because they haven’t been converted through the astevaihtelu or vokaaliharmonia algorithms. In usage, it means if I give you a newspaper and ask you to translate it with your dictionary, you won’t even be able to get the headline in many instances, let along the first sentence of the first paragraph.
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  13. I've owned many of them, and I had lots of problems with every one.Tried several proven techniques to improve reliability, like throating the breech, different recoil springs, more lube, 230gr ball only, extractor tweaks, still had issues across 4 different pistols, and the failure to go into battery was the most common malfunction with all of them. After thousands of dollars, I just stuck with modern pistols that actually work out of the box, don't need constant TLC, and haven't looked back.
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  14. Those were Romanian AKMs, select fire, not any of the civilian guns. Most of my experiences with AKs have been Warsaw Pact military variants, and all of them have been very crude and of poor construction, no matter the nation or origin. The only quality manufacture rifles inspired by the AK are Finnish Valmet and SAKO rifles, as well as Galils, and those are all very heavy, except for the Valmet Rk76 with sheet steel receiver, and the Galil SAR carbine.
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  15.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  Multiple Supreme Court rulings on the 2A established it as pretty absolute. The first offenses against the 2A perpetrated by various States were slave or freed slave ownership/possession of firearms. The next set of violations of the 2A were perpetrated by organized crime puppets in NYC who banned pistols, stilettos, and blackjacks to keep the citizens more vulnerable to racketeering. So if your argument is that the 2A isn't absolute, the case law that supports your assertions fall under those unconstitutional cases.
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  16. The manufacturing quality of Rk series simply exceeds all of the others by a large margin. I prefer whatever AKM variant with the lightest barrel profile for practical purposes, as long as it proves to be a reliable sample, which isn’t a given with any of the Euro and Asian models. I have Maadi AKM and ChiCom Norinco in my personal collection. Norinco is far superior in terms of “quality”, while the barrel profile on the Maadi is light, and aesthetics are the beautiful early 1970s Soviet AKM through-and-through. Sights are not zero-able on the Maadi. Front Sight tower is canted so badly, there is no way to mechanically achieve an even remote zero.
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  17. Viraqua:  It was actually initiated by the USAF soon-to-be Chief of Staff since the Army was no longer procuring spare parts for the M-1 and M-2 carbines that were used by USAF Security Forces and SPs to defend Air Bases.  The Army stopped M-1/M-2 Carbine spare parts purchasing after the Korean War, and the USAF didn't want to be manning their posts with Garands or M14s slung on their shoulders. After the Army Ordnance Board declared the AR15 totally unsuitable for any military use, the USAF Chief of Staff directed the Pentagon to begin type-classification and standardization of the AR15 to become the Air Force's new service rifle.  When the Army Ordnance Board received orders to contribute to this process, they were incensed, and began further efforts to sabotage the AR15.  Even the sabotaged AR15s out-performed the hand-selected M14s.  You can read all about this in great detail in The Black Rifle, Vol I.  Excellent book on the technical and drama history behind the AR15. When Special Forces, SAS, and SEALs got their hands on the AR15, they wanted it immediately.  Army Ordnance saw that there was a good possibility now that the AR15 would out-shine their baby, the M14, so they worked even harder to destroy any chances of the AR15 being adopted.  Once McNamara and his analysts found out about all this, they inserted themselves into Army Ordnance Board's inner workings and steered much of the program in order to overcome the corruption that was inherent in that team, resulting in the successful adoption of the AR15 for the Army, USAF, and Marines. Then there was further criminal misconduct with the proofing of production rifles using different ammunition than what was being issued after the initial production lots of the correct M193 with extruded powder were expended in Vietnam, and it was replaced with production lots using ball powder that drove the port pressures around 10,000psi higher than the design was engineered for. Like everything, the story is a lot more complicated and requires a lot of research to understand.
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  18. tommy gun The vast majority of the AKs I've seen problems with were overseas, or guns made overseas, real AKs, not semi autos. It's record for reliability is highly inflated.
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  19.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  As an academic, you should be formally trained in the intellectual standards and avoid false equivalencies. Own and accept your error, get remedial training, but don't ever double down on such an amateur mistake. It's beneath you and you know you can do better. Nothing I said was condescending.
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  20. Great video, as usual. The only thing I would note is that the .280 British is nothing like the 6.8 SPC. The .280 Brit used very long-for-caliber projectiles with high SD and BC, whereas the 6.8 is severely limited by magazine length and case length, only allowing low BC projectiles with tangent ogives, and limited case intrusion to work with. There have been several high BC intermediate cartridges introduced over the years, but the 6.8 is not one of them. The .280 British is one of the more well-known offerings.
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  21. Valmet is pronounced Val (like fall with a v), met ( I met you at the gun store).  Suomi is phonetic.
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  22.  @kappega  “y" in Finnish is a vowel sound that isn’t heard in English or any of the Indo-European languages that I’m aware of. To make the sound, point your lips like a volcano-shaped kiss with a tight ring, and try to say the long vowel sound of “Eeeee” in English, or “I” in most Euro languages. It sounds like a mix of “u” and “ee”. Very unique to Finnic language groups.
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  23.  @dss8345  From 2005 to 2016, I shot a lot of high-volume courses with Finnish Defense Forces and Active Reservists around the seasons. A lot of the courses we did were in the dead of winter. Already in the 2000s, there were a high number of guys with AR-15s and ArmaLite AR-10s. The conclusion I came to for what I would want in this category of weapon based solely on reliability, lightweight, portability, and ergonomics was an 11.5” AR with normal Stoner Internal Expansion Gas System. Nothing wrong with that at all. In course-after-course, I never saw a proper-built 11.5” 5.56 AR-15 have a malfunction. I did see quite a few malfunctions with Arsenal AKs in 7.62x39mm. I never saw an Rk62 or Rk92 or Rk95 malfunction, but they are boat anchors with almost no optics or LAM-mounting capacity. Moving forward, I think a 12.5” with a reflex suppressor option would be cool, so no real sacrifice in velocity or portability. All the guns need to be coated in something other than black, preferably OD Green or a two-tone OD and that M05 Grey from the intermediate season camo you see Ian wearing in the beginning of the video. Black weapons are TGT indicators for drones and human eyes.
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  24.  @Salmar80  😍😍😍
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  25. It should have been named Selektiver Feuerkarabiner (SFk-42/43/44). It's not a machinegun (like a Maxim, M1919, or MG42) submachinegun (MP38, MP40, Thompson, or PPSh), or automatic rifle (Chaucer, BAR). Most firearms of that time that were machineguns were automatic fire mode only. Most SMGs except the M1921 and Kp31 were open bolt, full auto only, so putting "machine" in the nomenclature of the MKb42 only made sense if it was full auto fire mode only. Select-Fire Carbine more accurately describes the weapon, without adding a purpose in the name like "Sturm", since soldiers will use their assigned weapons for both the defense and offense.
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  26. It's one thing to hear about how the SA80 was influenced by the AR-180, and another to see how they actually modified AR-180s into bullpups as proof of concepts. Another great video.
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  27. tommy gun Bulgarian AKs are some of the ones I see regularly failing in high volume shooting courses. Seeing firing pins worn, failure to feed issues, and difficult-to-diagnose problems in a course, necessitating back-up rifles. People who have never seen Eastern European manufacturing or Russian industry see the words I think, and assume some mystical level of manufacturing prowess, when these are both under-developed societies compared to US industry, with high levels of alcoholism and substandard employee quality that is needed for reduced margins in Total Quality Management, something that is a voodoo magic in the post-Soviet sphere.
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  28. Many of the AKs we've had fail on us in courses were Arsenals. They're made in Bulgaria, which is not the world's best industrial center for quality control, if you aren't familiar with underdeveloped nations and their standards. No matter what AK you put in the mud, the dimensions are the same, the open receiver design is the same, and the mud ingestion is the same into the fire control mechanism, resulting in dead trigger. Happens with beach sand too. Its a very poor design when it comes to being exposed to the elements in many ways, including corrosion. You can literally have the working parts fuse together if you don't maintain them well in high humidity.
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  29. Rust and corrosion are an issue on the AK, so it requires maintenance on more surface area than the AR. You can pretty much neglect the exterior of the AR and keep the internals lubed, and it will run for many lifetimes. The AK selector and top cover will start to have issues, as will the mag release and gas cylinder latch. If you ever have to actually use the AK in the field for extended periods, you start to see a lot of its weaknesses, which are based on poor materials selection for a military pact that had a lot of steel to utilize, with very crude assembly methods that could be duplicated by anthropomorphic apes.
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  30. Tom Splittstoesser That 11,500rd sample was just one day out of literally over 2 decades of shooting many different types of assault rifles around the world. There are AK variants I have experience with that you will never see in the US or outside of certain nations, in addition to the run-of-the-mill mass exported models from Eastern Europe or Eurasia. At the end of the day, almost all AKMs and variants were made in a sub-standard production chain, designed under difficult conditions in post-War Russia, without the resources we take for granted in the West. It was meant to be a mass-producable by nations with very limited production capacity, with limited resources, poverty-level factory workers, but still be able to issue a standard service rifle. That's really the way I've come to look at the AK, after quickly retiring the romantic ideas I had about it from childhood, which all proved to be false the more I worked with them. It's an inherently-unreliable design when it comes to debris ingestion, certain parts longevity, and compatibility with other Warsaw Pact magazines. It's the bottom of the barrel on the planet in terms of what we are capable of producing, but good enough for the regions where higher quality and more reliable designs are outside of their manufacturing base.
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  31. It also mirrors what coalition military partners have experienced in wide surveys of multiple versions of the AK in their own high volume shooting courses over many years, so they could analyze the actual performance of the weapons with sample sizes large enough to make conclusions about what direction they would go with their next assault rifle purchases. As a result, none of them have chosen to stick with the AK. It's a crude design from the late 1940s with early 50s improvements, meant to be able to say that we at least have some type of weapon for general issue to Soviet conscripts and 3rd-world illiterate peasants, with the minimal amount of resources consumed in a really bad manufacturing system, with centrally-planned economy. In that understanding, it was a successful design for sure, but for a professional soldier who will actually train with the rifle, It's one of the worst options available.
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  32.  @Joe-hz1nw  For pistols, I think a full-size 10mm makes more sense than a magnum revolver. Put in the reps with a .40 S&W of the same frame/design, then touch up with the 10mm before the hunt.
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  33. Mikko:  Then why do so many of my Finnish friends own machine-gun collector's licenses, with impressive collections of machine-guns?
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  34. Tony Pepperoni In a combat zone, huh? Is that why everyone I know involved with training Iraqi Army and Police, as well as Afghan Army and Police, had nothing but problems with AKs? These guys were begging the US for M4s from the start, and finally got them to replace their AKs.
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  35. Mike Allen I've used them. That's why I said it.
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  36. ***** The untold pallets of ammunition I have fired through various AR15/M16/M4s says otherwise. TDP guns just run in my experience. The FakeR-15s are about as reliable as AKs, which fluctuates depending how much the FakeR-15s deviate from the TDP. It's funny to watch nations who were contaminated with AKs during the Soviet times leap over to M4s and not look back.
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  37.  @Joe-hz1nw  Sometimes I take for granted how free my State is. Does Alaska infringe on the right to hunt with semi autos? I didn’t think they did. The universe did everything in its power to make me a bolt gun guy, and I have burned through pallets of ammo through bolt guns (precision rifle shooting and testing), yet I still am firmly a semi-auto guy through-and-through. A lightweight 6.5 Grendel is a joy to carry in the mountains and thick forrest, with very minimal muzzle climb and ease of keeping on-target for a 3-5rd shot string at close range.
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  38. The thinking behind the .30 Cal Light Rifle was they wanted streamlined logistics without losing performance from what the M-1 Garand and M1919 Machine-guns offered, but wanted more mobility and increased firepower for the riflemen and machine gunners. Instead of fielding a weapons mix of .45 ACP M3 and M1928 SMGs, .30 Cal M1 Carbines, .30 Cal Rifle Garands, .30 Cal Rifle BARs, and .30 Cal Rifle M1919 MGs, they figured they could encompass all of these weapons into 3 shoulder-fired weapons firing the same cartridge.  These would be: M14 7.62 NATO for Riflemen and everyone else M14A1 7.62 NATO Automatic Rifle to replace the BAR M60 GPMG to replace the M1919 All 3 weapons were horrible failures, with the M14 being quickly replaced with the AR15 (M16/M16A1), but the malfunction-prone M60 unfortunately lived on into the 1990s and early 2000s.  I used the M60 extensively in several light Infantry units, and we always had issues with them. "Ca-chunk" was a common FTFire mode of that system, along with FTExtract and FTEject.  It was the most handy to carry GPMG I've ever used because of the half-bullpup layout and comfortable handguard, but they just didn't run.
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  39.  @BaconSlayer69  I have never used an 11.5” AR-15 in competition. These were all Finnish Military events, and the 11.5” AR-15s were owned by Finnish personnel who bought them on their own. In the US, my 2nd and 3rd personal AR-15s were 11.5” guns in the 1990s. Never experienced malfunctions with either of them, and shot them in high volume. US military adopted the 10” Colt XM177, which was later superseded by the 11.5” XM177E2 and GAU-5A/A for USAF. SOG primarily used XM177E2s once they were available, and stacked NVA bodies like corkwood with them. With M193, you’re in the 2820-2870fps region from an 11.5” gun.
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  40.  @RingedStag  I have used the Rk92 and 95 intermittently from 2005-2016. I honestly can’t remember the guys with Rk95s ever folding the stocks, other than maybe for transport in bags. A fazed length stock like that isn’t very friendly with basic kit, let alone armor for a lot of people. Most nations with the budget for it have gone away from folders and over to telescoping, LOP-adjustable stocks for that reason, or a combo of the 2.
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  41.  @foleymaj  When I was working with the Estonians, they all had Gallil full-length rifles in Pasi APCs, while the drivers were issued the short Galil SAR carbines. I don’t recall any of them folding the stocks either. Just one more thing to worry about when you can just leave the rifle in a ready position. Pasi is one of the most spacious, well-designed APCs I’ve ever seen, though I was never a mech/armor guy so I will defer to the armor nerds on that.
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  42. Tom Splittstoesser 1000rds? That's just breaking it in. I've put more through them in a day than that. We did 11,500 rounds one day with a SPENDEX. 4 of the Romanian AKMs (real ones) broke. They did not appear to be heavily used guns at all before that. In the courses I run working with coalition partners, we've had enough problems with various AKs that I would not choose one as a go-to assault rifle, especially against an M4. Your sample size of one rifle is not indicative of the trends in performance with Warsaw Pact AKMs and variants.
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  43. I've experienced many failures with AKs covering over 2 decades now across the variants. I guess that's all anecdotal too. Look, most AK cool-aid drinkers bought into this reliability myth because they heard it from someone, then ran with it, without ever testing the statements. I was the same way, until I started shooting it in tens of thousands of rounds of volume. Not reliable.
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  44. Whenever I think about dangerous game territory, I think semi auto with a quick close-in optic capability. AR-15 in Grendel or lightweight AR-10, but I have 30 years of close quarters marksmanship experience to boot.
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  45. Not in my experience. Parts durability with the AK in the field is nowhere near what it is touted as. Things break just from shooting it, especially Eastern European variants from Romania. The only ones I have not seen a lot of problems with were East German MPKiMS-74 5.45, and Finnish Valmet Rk62 or SAKO Rk92 and Rk95, but the Finnish guns are a completely different standard of rifle-making when looking at quality across the board, including their mags and ammo. No other AK manufacturer even approaches those levels of quality, but they are heavy as sin.
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  46. I've watched Arsenal AKs malfunction with no dirt in them on a regular basis in both cold wet and warm wet environments. Something to do with critical dimensions with firing pin protrusion and primer activation not being correct across several guns. In competent armorer hands, they could be made to work with new firing pins, but Arsenals are made in Bulgaria. If you're not familiar with Bulgaria and their industry standards, it will be an interesting subject for those who want to explore it. They're neighbors with Romania, for reference.
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  47. I've had dozens of AKs fail on me in live fire training over the years, to include failure to fire, FTFeed, FTeject/stove, FTExtract/stuck, or breakage of the parts, nowhere near the mud. It isn't the reliable weapon a lot of people advertise it to be, especially ones who have never shot real ones.
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  48. He said he would have used a scope, but just didn't have access to one. This was from Finnish Sniper instructors interviewing him before he passed. I have one of his spent cases from one of his firing positions from the Battle of Kollaa, mounted on a Plaque.
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  49. I did a ton of shooting with AR-15s in high volume training sessions in Finland from 2005-2016. I would choose a short AR-15 with an 11.5” or 12.5” barrel over any other carbine in that class. I never saw an 11.5” AR-15 go down in countless high volume courses, where the temps were often -27˚C. We had Arsenal AKs going down more frequently than I expected.
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  50.  @djl5634  You're talking about the locking mechanism. I'm talking about the recoil system operating principle, and how the cyclic rate is balanced against the recoil. I've spent quite a bit of hands-on time with the MP44 and other constant recoil system, select-fire weapons. You will immediately know when you shoot one, especially if you've also shot a lot of other SMGs, LMGs, GPMGs, and HMGs. With most machineguns, the action returns to battery very quickly and in automatic, will naturally fire the next round before your muzzle has recovered to your intended point of aim. With a constant recoil system, it's timed to arrive once you have recovered. The Stg44 does this. The M60 is really close, as it has a lower cyclic rate, but not quite there like an Ultimax100 or Stg44. (Former SAW Gunner, Scout Observer, Weapons Squad AG, Gunner when we still had the M60, Weapons Squad Leader when we had M240, and guy who spent many years working with foreign partner nations in Europe.) When someone mentions how the MP44 works, I see it in my hands from experience, after many years studying it before touching it.
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  51. This video was freaking awesome guys. I would love to see more of this. That was a really good match-up, and shows how weapon weight and design plays a factor in practical efficiency. An SVT vs. Garand or G43 would be cool, with TT-33 Tokarev vs. Luger or the P-38 again. I really enjoyed this.
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  52. I think we need an AK reality PTSD group therapy club to help relieve some of the emotional pain and suffering many COD players have been forced to endure once they enter the adult age range, and are forced to view the shocking truth that Kalashniclaus doesn't deliver anything but empty stockings and broken dreams.
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  53. ***** You might want to go review some of the Stoner file footage of how he envisioned his designs to be used. They are opposite of what you describe, to include emerging from the water in an over-the-beach assault firing wildly from the hip, going prone in the sand, changing mags, and firing again.
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  54.  @6.5mm_is_the_best_mm  Yup. Cowboy Action shooters often load light for faster stage runs on steel plates with cast bullets. A hit is a hit.
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  55.  @6.5mm_is_the_best_mm  If you look at how infinitesimally short the time is from primer strike to the projectile exiting the muzzle and graph the pressure wave on the timeline, with piezoelectric metering, you see where the peak pressure is. This is why powder and bullet companies do so much testing to determine appropriate powder/bullet combos. You can load powder that is too slow for the bullet weight/length and it won't convert well at all, especially cartridges that are more straight walled.
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  56.  Caden Malcolm  I'm starting to think Australia has been mostly disarmed so China can roll through some day. They've certainly been bribing Australian, Filipino, Indonesian, and every other country's politicians off.
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  57.  @jemcnair76  Barrel length is not deterministic in burn rate for a cartridge. Chamber design and projectile diameter relative to the case diameter, followed by projectile weight, and action strength will determine powder selection. You can also use faster burning powders with driving band projectiles in cartridges that normally use slower propellant. What I think you meant to say was that Stoner developed the AR-15 around tiny stick powder, then the Army sourced ball propellant for follow-on contracts that raised the port pressure significantly, thereby reducing reliability once the cyclic rate departed from the happy window of timing that was set with stick powder.
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  58.  @snek9353  If you use a mirrored FAL BHO/Bolt Release inverted T or single piece device like on the XCR, with an AR-15 carrier, you could do it so the cut doesn't traverse across the sectional area of the wall between FCG pocket and magazine well. No real reason for it though. 7075 is better.
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  59.  @snek9353  Aerospace CF with new curing methods is where it's at. Some very interesting developments have happened in that space.
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  60.  @Joe-hz1nw  I was talking about a separate .40 S&W pistol. Agreed about 10mm being .40 S&W+. Glock and M&P run 10mm reliably. Match the Buffalo Boar to the recoil spring.
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  61.  @donsheckler127  The thread gap between the barrel extension tennon is also a limiter in chamber pressure due to hoop stress. 5.56 chambers have thick walls, but larger diameter cartridges using the AR-15 extension have thinner chamber walls, so you have to reduce the MAP or redesign the parts. Barrel extension tooth length and bolt lug length also limit MAP, unless you step up into exotic aerospace alloys like POF and now Ruger have done with their .308 Win AR-15s.
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  62. The spent cases and unfired ammunition found on the 6th floor of the TSBD were from a CIA contract in 1954 to the Western cartridge corporation. WCC never made that ammo before or since. The Warren Commission never explained where Oswald bought the ammo. It was uniquely-traceable because it had lot codes on the head stamps, which is very unusual for US ammunition. From everything I've gathered, I think CE139 was a prop. So was CE399.
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  63. A buddy of mine installed a Galil-style safety on his Rk92/S. He used a cartridge head for the purchase point on the lever, which was interesting. Rks are just boat anchors though, not fun to carry for extended periods or even do range work with in CQM.
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  64.  @twink5717  How much extreme cold shooting have you done with AR-15s? Because I’ve done a ton of it in Finland from 2005-2016, and I would take an 11.5” to 12.5” AR-15 over any other assault rifle design without hesitation. I would not choose an external 1920s piston gun due to debris ingestion and higher probability of parts seizure from freezing/condensation. But anyone who tells you AR-15s don’t do well in extreme cold is not experienced in this matter. Look at Canada, UK SF, and Norway as well.
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  65.  @muskratondatra8294  None of those things were usual and some are fictional revisions of history.
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  66.  @jattikuukunen  It’s so easy, even Finnish children can learn it! Äitini ei puhu minulle suomeksi : (
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  67. K-9 Handlers typically had 10” barreled XM177s in Vietnam once those became available, otherwise they carried M16s. There are photos showing this with US Army carrying XM177s, and USAF carrying 10” GAU-5/As (no forward assist).
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  68.  @suprlite  A .280 Enfield AR-10 would have been really nice, along with a .280 Light Machine-gun.
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  69. df2dot The Warsaw Pact AKs are all over the map when it comes to "standards", especially magazine compatibility.
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  70. I had a really mythical idea of the AK, until I started shooting and deploying with them. Reliability was not what it was touted to be, nor was magazine compatibility. It's a good design for taking the least amount of materials possible so that you can equip a large, underdeveloped nation with a standard assault rifle that will be used more like an SMG, but with the power to still reach out to 400m on rare occasions for mostly harassment fire.
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  71.  @GR46404  Yes. Case taper increases rearward thrust, which is especially no bueno in revolvers.
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  72.  @6.5mm_is_the_best_mm  Peak pressure occurs in the middle of the propellant column. This is where pressure transducer gauges are placed over the chamber relative to that spot. They used to use copper crusher gauges in test breaches to get an idea of chamber pressure.
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  73.  @6.5mm_is_the_best_mm  Exactly. Varget seems to do best in bottleneck cartridges loaded to full capacity. It's too slow of a burn rate for its density with most bullet weights even in 6.5 Grendel, which is interesting because Grendel typically works well with all the powders used in .223 Rem and .308 Win. like BL-C(2), H335, H4895, 8208XBR, AA2460, AA2520, TAC, WW748, etc.
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  74.  @paulzaborny6741  Russia has never been able to mass produce a rifle that has very high chamber pressure. 7.62x39 AK/AKM is 45,000psi. 7.62x54R is 56,500psi, which is high for them. They're stealing washers and driers from Ukraine to get circuitry from them.
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  75.  @FeatheredDino  Real AR-10s from back then are more reliable than most of the modern after-market parts guns. I've been working with AR-10s, SR-25s, aftermarket imitations, and Hk417s in high volume since 2002, have owned at least 6 .308 Win or .260 Rem versions of them over that time, repaired, accurized, and trouble-shot quite a few of them. Big challenges from an engineering standpoint are: * Bore volume vs projectile mass and propellant mass * Bolt and carrier mass ratio (AR-10 was designed on 1:3 ratio.) * Cartridge stack mass resistance to spring lift, especially under the torque moment from the rifle counter to the rifling direction AR-15 in 5.56 doesn't have those problems. I can't recall any notable malfunctions with post-1996 ArmaLite Inc. AR-10s, SR-25s, or my GAP built .308 and .260 Rem. DPMS LR-308s and LR-260 had problems. The old school Dutch ArmaLite AR-10s are very pleasant to shoot, unbelievably accurate, and balance well in the hands.
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  76. ​ @cash_711  Or propped up to destroy Germany from within...?
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  77. Here are all of the duty positions in an Infantry Rifle Company that will not want to carry it, nor should they carry it: CO 1SG XO Co RTOs Drivers FO NCO Supply SGT Supply Clerk Rifle Platoon Leaders Platoon Sergeants Combat Medics Forward Observers USAF JTACs Grenadiers Weapons Squad Leaders Assistant Gunners Ammo Bearers Anti-Armor Weapons Specialist Mortar PSG Mortar Team Leaders Mortarmen This leaves only: Rifle Squad Leaders Rifle Team Leaders Riflemen (It adds weight to each of these duty positions, while reducing ammo carrying capacity). Auto Riflemen will carry the new NGSW AR belt-fed.
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  78.  @tstststs  When you move the gas port back from 12” to 7”, the port pressure increases dramatically. You can meter that port with an even smaller port size and have more pressure and gas volume to cycle the action. CLGS has smaller ports than RLGS, but are still gassed harder.
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  79.  @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367  Stoner didn't copy the Ljungman as is commonly believed. Ljungman uses direct gas to push the carrier rearward. Stoner system uses internal expansion between the bolt gas ring flange and the carrier to generate inertia. It's described in the Stoner patents, which are searchable now.
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  80.  @olrikparlez3152  We adopted a child prodigy that the Air Force, SAS, and SF adopted early-on. Until a gifted designer comes along and their ideas catch on with the right alignment of personalities, we'll continue to plateau.
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  81. Most people are unaware of the refined ArmaLite/Colt AR-10A of 1959, after feedback from demos all over the world. It was a smaller-framed AR-10 with a smaller BCG. Colt bought the Stoner patents with the intent to mass-produce that rifle, and began tooling up for it. McDonald sent them a wire to cease tooling up for the AR-10A, because he was ready to start filling orders for the AR-15 from several armies.
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  82. When you only have a factor of safety of 1.45 in your pressure containment vessel, you should expect more results like Scott's. An AI .50 BMG or Barrett would chug along after that with minimal indication to the shooter anything unusual had happened. 80ksi/55ksi= 1.45 FoS That's not enough. FoS of 2 would be more ideal for .50 BMG due to propellant volume, projectile mass, and pressure containment mass.
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  83.  @XtreeM_FaiL  Same with Rk76 tube-folder. Even though Rk76 is sheet steel, it might as well be billet because it’s double the thickness of any stamped AK I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them from all over the world.
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  84.  @djl5634  MP44/Stg44 is absolutely a constant recoil operating system, as is the much older Suomi Kp31 9mm SMG.
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  85.  @djl5634  Here you get to learn the difference between the locking mechanism and recoil principles. If you put the cyclic rate on a timed animation, it would make sense by demonstrating the balanced recoil system.
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  86. I just weighed a carbine lower with B5 SOPMOD, buffer and spring removed: 1lb 15oz. With JP SCS, it’s 2lbs 6oz. LaRue MBT-2S, SPR grip. Standard forged A2 lower. Carbine RET, standard end plate, standard lock nut.
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  87. I just pulled a clone 602/605/XM-16E1complete lower of my 605A retro, with a Type D transitional phenolic resin/nylon stock, with rifle buffer and spring. 2lbs 5.5oz. With buffer and action spring removed, it’s 1lb 14.6oz or 1.915lbs.
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  88.  @PBVader  Have you ever tried to get an AR-10 to run with a half-size port? Even 75% sized ports will short-stroke the gun with many factory loads, especially in cold weather. So normally on a .308, you'll have a .094" port at RLGS, 20" barrel. I've seen companies try to get away with .086" at that location and short-stroke the gun. Suppress it with accumulation and it will run, but unsuppressed in the late fall and winter shooting 135gr-155gr will short-stroke it. The term "over-gassed" is generally a misnomer, unless the port is too large even for hot weather and lighter loads. There are a lot of parts-bash guns with slip-fit gas blocks that no reputable manufacturer would let out the door.
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  89.  @PBVader  I can see .076" ports at MLGS 16-18", not 20" RLGS, unless I'm missing something. For reference, I've been really big into AR-10s since the late 1980s, have owned, shot, and worked on many of them, to include Dutch ArmaLites, Eagle Arms ArmaLites, SR-25s, DPMS, Iron Ridge Arms, GAP, ASA, JP, Bushmaster BAR-10, RRA LAR-8, DPMS GII, Savage MSR-10. I've had the gas port diameter conversation with multiple upper tier manufacturers, and have measured port diameters on a lot of barrels. Maybe my memory has just gone totally TU, but those numbers sound way off to me.
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  90.  @PBVader  The Savage MSR-10 has an adjustable gas block with mechanical advantage, not one of the carbon lock set screw jobs. I use Bootleg adjustable gas carriers in the AR-15 shooting suppressed or on MLGS 18" for the reasons you bring up.
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  91.  @Kydenius  I've done years of high-volume courses Suomessa where attendees brought 11.5"-16" AR-15 carbines, which ran like raped apes in -27° to-30°C in the middle of winter. The weight difference, balance, and user interface is far superior on AR-15s. I'd like to see a Finnish-built FDF AR-15 variant. They just announced a locally-produced AR-10 DMR/Sniper System for FDF. I would have preferred to see a 6.5 Grendel AR-15 in that role though. AR-10s can get really heavy, whereas the SVD is nice and lightweight. It allows you to shoot and move better, displace rapidly rather than being fixed in one position. That was a big lesson the Russians learned in WWII so they wanted to keep the lighter weight similar to the SVT-38/40.
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  92. Russians don't even know about the Winter War. They are taught that fascist Finns invaded poor Russia. There are maps of this in the Central Red Army Museum in Moscow, with huge blue arrows coming from Finland down into Russia.
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  93.  @Isaac-ho8gh  How much hands-on experience do you have with the Rk92 and Rk95? They are very well-built weapons, but they are boat anchors with sucky AK ergonomics. The curved AK magazines are cumbersome and bulky to carry, let alone heavy when loaded, and not fun to hump in the snow or any terrain for that matter. Converting the Rk92 and 95 receivers over to STANAG magwells that still work with Rk bolts would be a waste of time. It’s much easier to acquire new carbines like this.
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  94.  @twink5717  Nothing you describe matches my experiences with M16s, M4s, and AR-15s in extreme cold over the past 30 years. I first started shooting AR-15s in high volume in 1987, but didn’t see true extreme cold conditions until 1996 in Korea. I later spent a ton of time with AR-15s in Finland from 2005-2016, running them in high volume courses, especially in the winter (hard to schedule courses in a place where it’s winter much of the time). Of all the assault rifle designs I’ve used since the 1980s, 11.5” or 12.5” AR with a suppressor would be my go-to in Finland.
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  95.  @jfess1911  These carbines are every bit as accurate as rifles, but squirrely in the hands so harder to hold steady from some positions. I know some services referred to them as SMGs, but I really think SMGs require a pistol cartridge to fall into that category.
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  96. It was great meeting you guys at SHOT. Looking forward to more videos and tests from Forgotten Weapons.
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  97.  @suprlite  The only army that has chosen one that I’m aware of is the Serbs with 6.5 Grendel. 6.8 SPC is used by Saudi Palace Guards in LWRCi PDWs.
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  98. Michael anthony They test limited numbers from production batches, and the test personnel have too much blood in their alcohol. Ever been there? We're talking about developing nation-level manufacturing.
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  99. Great video again. Looks like there is a Receiver Extension Tube roll pin hole on the right side, but not the left.
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  100. We still don't know what rifles and calibers were used on JFK, James Tague, and Gov Connally.
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  101. Handguards were an early phenolic resin/Bakelite. There were some prototypes with carbon fiber, but the ones in the video are Bakelite.
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  102. Bolt and carrier weren't made from stainless. They were 8620 IIRC, definitely hard chrome plated. The Dutch did an excellent job on the metallurgy of the AR10, as well as attention to detail. The ejector pin is chamfered, for example, to help prevent case head impingement in the bolt face from the right side feed presentation from the magazine. They are fine rifles when you look at the workmanship on them.
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  103. Excellent video. I just purchased my first M28 recently to go with my Hayha Plaque, which has one of the spent casings found in the early 2000s at one of Hayha's firing positions when members of the Finnish sniping community went to interview Hayha, and were asking him specific questions about the battle of Kollaa. He said, "Why don't we get in the car and go there and I'll show you?" When they walked to one of his positions, dudes started kicking around in the grass, and found lots of spent cases. "I guess those are mine." He had been allowed the rare opportunity to work autonomously by his Company Commander, who was a veteran of the French Foreign Legion after being kicked out of one of the Finnish Officer's Training Academies. We find that the extreme cold conditions of Finland and the region are great at preserving war material even dating back to the 1930s. Buddies of mine have found Russian and German soldiers, complete with kit, in frozen graves that thaw out in the few months of summer. One particular site outside of Sainkt Petersburg was a treasure trove of German paratroopers and their FG-42s.
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  104. Mine is a M28/30, not M28.
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  105. I would also like to see a Thompson vs. PPSh-41 2-gun match. That would be sick.
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  106. Simo was a competitive rifle shooter before the war, and mastered shooting from positions.
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  107.  @6.5mm_is_the_best_mm  Yes. As volume increases with projectile travel, pressure decreases. I've been involved with pressure measurement systems for quite some time now in a professional capacity.
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  109.  @6.5mm_is_the_best_mm  We've all heard about primer jump where the high explosive of the primer causes enough pressure to jump the projectile into the lands, after which the propellant column is ignited and peak pressure is reached based on that new slightly larger volume. Military cartridges often use sealants so primer jump isn't normally an issue in those instances. Most of your slow-burning rifle propellants are burned within the first few inches of the chamber, and the resultant hot expanding gas continues to expand behind the projectile, forcing it down the bore until the pressure is relieved at the muzzle. But I've not seen piezo-electric readings where pressure was lower at the mid-chamber than anywhere else. There is pressure build-up on the time scale, but peak pressure is in the chamber. If you look at the barrel shank of a light profiled magnum barrel, you'll see where the taper starts. You wouldn't be able to start a taper so close to the shank if you still didn't have FoS there, and FoS is determined by pressure.
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  110.  @FeatheredDino  The AR-10 has never been as reliable as the AR-15. Jim Sullivan said they noticed that even in the late 1950s, even though the AR-10 came first. It's a totally different animal from an engineering perspective, even though the design layout is the same.
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  111.  @cash_711  Did they effectively almost erase the prime age males of Germany in 5 years?
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  112. There is one really cool PDW chambered in an anemic cartridge currently that would greatly benefit from this for the civilian market, without sacrificing mag capacity. It would be a game-changer for catching on, but the maker of that PDW would frown on it.
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  113. Was the Honey Badger lubed?
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  114.  @kyleheins  The common shoulder-fired weapon issued to the vast majority of soldiers in a Line Company should not exceed 5lbs and should not be very long at all. Think M-1 Carbine weight and handling, but shorter, with at least 5.56 NATO performance. For Rifle Squad Leaders and Team Leaders, they should carry a DMR with upper end electro-optics, chambered in an Enhanced Intermediate Rifle Cartridge like 6mm ARC+ in performance, and that cartridge should be common to the Lightweight LMG with linked ammo. Riflemen and Grenadiers should carry the PDW-sized Carbine, as should Ammo Bearers, Assistant Gunners, Anti-Armor Weapons Specialists, everyone in Mortars, CO, 1SG, RTOs, PLs, Drivers, FOs, Combat Medics, etc. A battle rifle cartridge platform should not exist in the Rifle Company other than Medium Machine-guns in Weapons Squads, and those could be replaced with a .338 Norma-like hybrid polymer/steel case to reduce weight, while increasing long range performance. 9-12lb rifles for everyone is a non-starter concept in the year 1960, let alone 2022.
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  115.  @dasboot9471  M14 was a huge failure for a service rifle by purposely ignoring every hard lesson learned in The Great War, WWII, and Korea. The Army already knew this prior to any major force commitments to Vietnam after conducting combat studies with it vs units with AKs at Fort Benning in the early 1960s. Basic load was too small, too heavy to sustain the fight, resulting in dudes getting run down/maneuvered on.
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  116.  @WinnieThePugh  For a short time until the complaints mount into a crescendo of pushback.
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  117.  @kyleheins  You can have a 5lb empty carbine that smokes armor at close range with AP. 6lb with optic, 7lb with full mag. With an intermediate cartridge, you can match or exceed the terminal performance of 6.8 NGSW just by going to a smaller diameter bore pushing a 135gr with much higher BC. That would give you a DMR slightly larger than an AR-15, not as big or heavy as an AR-10. Army had the false premise that the projectile diameter must be .277", which is really backwards thinking, but at least smarter than requiring 7.62mm. Basic load sucks though, can't carry a reasonable load even without armor. With armor, it's a non-starter.
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  118.  @kyleheins  Most dudes in the line don't need anything like this, and can have a carbine that weighs less than half of this, while delivering impressive performance. You can have a sick integrated electro-optical aiming system without it being so huge and bulky as well, for an overall weight with loaded mag under 7lbs.
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  119.  @kyleheins  You can have almost everyone carrying lightweight carbines that will smoke armor within 200m using AP. MGs and DMs can carry something faster.
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  120.  @redwolfexr  I'm imagining you as a neighbor in 1776, wondering how quickly you would dime out your friends and family to the British because you didn't feel like the boot on your neck was that heavy.
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  121.  @redwolfexr  What law? ATF rulings aren’t law. It’s not my job to fix them, only exercise my rights per the supreme law of the land that supersedes any confiscatory or criminal conduct by a Prohibition-era gaggle of criminals who wear suits. I have no legal responsibility to correct an illegal agency in the manner you seem to be suggesting. Not sure what you’re referring to with “your movement”. I’m just a man with a family who exercises our rights.
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  122.  @redwolfexr  11 years of "skirting around laws"? There are millions of pistol braces, 10-40 million as of 2021, per Congressional Research Service 2 years ago. The 2nd most common handgun caliber purchased in 2020 was 5.56mm per NSSF industry statistics provided by manufacturers. Will not comply with ATF excrement rulings.
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  123. ATF and the authors of the NFA are criminals.
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  124. They are over-built since Finland can't afford to buy new rifles all the time like in the US.  Steel is 2x as thick on the billet receiver for a very long life.  Finnish conscripts still use Rk62s to this day for their military service-the same rifle many of their grandfathers used in their service.  They can be quite accurate.  They now use polymer mags that were developed with the Rk95.
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  125. 605s seem to run fine for me and many others who have them. I’ve shot everything from Wolf to 75gr through mine without a single malf yet, though I only break it out for fun every now and then. 605 should have been looked at more. It’s a handy set-up that offers the best of both worlds. We’re effectively there now with the SOPMOD Block II rifle-length gandguard guns, and now the URGI.
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  126.  @hippiesaboteur2556  “CAR-15” was the name for a family of weapons by Colt, to show the modularity of the design for different duty positions and roles. 603 was the Infantry Rifle 605 was the Infantry Leader’s Carbine 607 was the Commando 608 was the USAF Survival Carbine They had a belt-fed light support weapon as well that never went anywhere. The name stuck to the Commando variants that were mass-produced later as the RO619, 620, 629, 630, 639, and 640. XM177E2 was the most produced of those with the 11.5” barrel, same receiver set as the M16A1/Colt 603, 4.5” Moderator. 607 saw very limited production.
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  127.  @Nefville  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now do rynnäkkökivääri for Rk.
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  128. The CETME Model 1 was the next evolution of the Sturmgewehr, with a very forward-thinking cartridge capable of close-range fighting with minimal recoil, as well as long-distance effective range that would have been very interesting in a Light Machine-Gun.
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  129. ​ @anactualfennecfox1  Look up the % of minimum wage workers in the US. Giant nothingburger that should never arise when discussing economics, wages, jobs, employment, etc.
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  130. The Mafia owned Congress and the FBI in the 1930s, and had every vested interest in protecting the banks as any other huge corporate entity. What really bugged them were the few motorized gangs of the Midwest, notoriously Dillinger's gang, Bonnie & Clyde, and Ma Barker. That's the main reason why the NFA Hearings took place in April-May of 1934. They mentioned Dillinger throughout the hearings.
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  131. I'm interested to know exactly which model Thompsons were used by Dillinger (stolen police armory samples) and Capone's Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (1929).
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  132. The CAR-15SD would be cool in this case, chambered in something else.
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  133.  @broadrivertactical  I’m doing an 8.5” 6.5 Grendel right now and am really interested in your hanguard set-up.
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  134. The main reason Army Ordnance finally acquiesced to the adoption of the AR15 was because they saw it as a temporary stop-gap until adoption of the SPIW in 1968. The SPIW concept was the apple of their eye in many respects. Turned out to be a steaming pile of feces.
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  135.  @Ironpine27  The y is easily pronounced if you point your lips like a cone, and try to say the English long "eee" sound. Hä y hä Sounds more like Ha uuu ha, but said quickly. The ä sound is like "a" in "hang" as someone said above.
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  136. ​ @truereaper4572 You might want to read Dr. Dolce's protest letter about what was reported to the WC. He was the Chief ballistician at the time at Edgewood Arsenal, where the extensive tests were conducted. They could never get the single bullet theory to work. The Warren Commission selected one of his technicians to present what they wanted to hear, Not what was actually demonstrated in their terminal ballistics testing. Another thing that was omitted was the origin of that ammunition. It was literally a CIA contract to Western Cartridge Company from lot 6000, made in 1954.
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  137. ​ @truereaper4572  Read Doctor Dulce's protest letter from Edgewood Arsenal. He was the chief ballistician there who oversaw the 6.5 Carcano ballistics testing. They shot goats, human cadaver wrists, chest cavities, ballistic gelatin, the whole 9 yds. They disproved the single bullet theory. CE399 also isn't he bullet found on the floor at Parkland. It couldn't be identified by building superintendent Tomlinson, or chief a personnel O. Wright. Wright said it was a pointed Spitzer bullet, not a round nose. You run into this kind of stuff at every turn with the WC.
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  138. Yup. There have been serious talks of a new assault rifle since the 2000s. It got more serious in the 2010s. Funny thing I noticed right away was that almost every Finn I know in the Reserves already had an AR-15, and many had AR-10s in the 2000s.
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  139.  @nickaschenbecker9882  .224 Boz was meant to allow drop-in barrel conversions for pistols and SMGs. Very interesting little zipper of a cartridge.
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  140. Why is everyone calling the Masada/ACR stock a SCAR stock?
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  141.  @jbloun911  AR-18 was meant for poor countries who were still using sheet metal stampings for receivers, with trunnions for barrels. Very flimsy weapon nowhere near as reliable or accurate as the AR-15.
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  142. How are the internals compared to a Kp31?
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  143. ​ @user6008 You realize there was no GSW entrance in the back of JFK's neck, right? There was an entrance lower on his back, below the scapula, right of the spine (doesn't align with the GSW in his front throat). Gerald Ford had this evidence edited & misstated in the WC to help Arlen Specter with the Single Bullet Theory. The M91/38 Carcano carbine was a planted piece of evidence, using Lot 6000 WCC ammunition to steer investigators towards the Cuban ex-pats. That ammo was CIA contract through DoD to Western Cartridge in 1954. WCC never made it before or after, and it has never been explained how Oswald obtained it. See the Edgewood Arsenal ballistics tests for the WC, and chief ballistician Dr. Dulce's protest letter.
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  144. ​ @Caeruleo One office worker saw him on the 2nd floor before the shooting, as did Dallas Police officer Marion Baker, 1min 37sec after the shots were fired. Marion Baker ditched his motorcycle on the street and rushed the TSBD looking for any possible suspect.
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  145. ​ Oswald had already eaten his lunch. Several TSBD workers had been flooring the 6th floor. Bonnie Ray Williams ate his lunch, including a chicken bone sandwich on the 6th floor in the Southeast window and smoked a cigarette, which was why the window was open. Walter Cronkite said that the sniper was so cool and calculated that he ate his lunch in the window before assassinating the president. The WC then chose to structure the witness testimony to make it seem like Oswald could have slipped by everybody on the 5th & 6th floors, both going up and coming down. They had to go through all kinds of gymnastics to place him on the 6th floor in order for the foregone lone gunman theory to work. Read the WC. It contradicts itself as a rule.
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  146. The M91/38 Carcano tested by the WC was 5" right and 8" high.....at 15yds. WC said it had automated moving target lead accidentally built into the zero, which helped Oswald make his shots. This is erroneous because time of flight is maybe 0.1 sec at those short distances. Still very hard to shoot movers, but doesn't require pulling lead. Carlos Hathcock and the other senior Scout Sniper Instructors were unable to duplicate the shots at Quantico's combat village site.
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  147.  @DreadNought0255  AR-15 originally had the Edgewater spring guide with multiple dead blow effect conical buffers like a Browning A5 shotgun.
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  148.  @oskarlonnqvist7074  Every one that I have fired there was automatic or select-fire, depending on the type. That includes: Hk21 belt-fed Kp31 9mm SMG Vz.58 SiG 551 SiG 552 MP5 Hk33 Hk53 A bunch of others I can’t remember over the years.
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  149. I think the Fort Benning studies with 7.62 NATO rifles vs AKs would have the same results. Anyone bringing the limited capacity of a 7.62 NATO rifle to the infantry fight would have died in place at the hands of OPFOR carrying 30rd mag-fed assault rifles. Qualification scores would likely have been lower with the T48 due to the vertical stringing, although maintenance might have been easier to do for the soldier and armorers, with a lot of cross-pollination between Canada, UK, and other NATO partners using the same system. In the end, the failures of battle rifles in the post-WWII era would have still been a major complaint within the US system, and the likelihood of a SCHV rifle could still have been the outcome. The question I have is would SCHV have been a thing if we had adopted an intermediate cartridge like the .280, allowing more magazine capacity in smaller space, fulfilling the traditional US rifleman institutional culture vs the maneuver warfare assault troop. It would be interesting if they had conducted the same infantry MTO&E and tactics study with 7mm intermediate vs the AK with OPFOR. Even more interesting would have been a Stoner design in 7mm intermediate cartridge with at least a 25rd magazine. I still like the AR15 design of them all, having used all of the rifles mentioned.
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  150.  @TEAserOne  I've lost track of how many different types of full auto weapons I have fired, most of which have been in the military or militaries of foreign nations I was working with. When you shoot a constant recoil system, it feels like a dream because the gun barely moves and you're able to continuously place fire where you want it. Normally, machineguns of all types are somewhat hard to control and not as fun.
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  151. The HK33 is a very enjoyable rifle to fire for me at least-very controllable, nice cyclic rate.  The HK53...not so much.  Very violent.
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  152.  @gpheonix1  The German MachinenKarabinen were all carbines based on barrel length, not fitting any definition of rifles. Rifles typically had 24"-31.1" barrels. There were 24" barreled carbines even in the 1800s if the actions were short enough. The MKb42(H) had a 14" barrel. M1 Carbine has a 17.75" barrel. In the first half of the 20th Century, most 20" barreled long guns were considered carbines. We saw a shift in the 1950s with the 21" barrel FAL, 22" bbl M14, 17.7" bbl G3, 20" bbl AR-10, and 20" bbl AR-15 all referred to as "rifles". Especially with the flash hiders on the FAL and M14, they were long in overall length like a rifle, plus the bulky/ lengthy receivers of the FAL, G3, and AR-10 contributed to their overall lengths. An M1 Carbine is tiny compared to a G3, even though the M1 Carbine's barrel is longer. The AR-15 came from the Small Caliber High Velocity Rifle program, where several of the prototypes had longer barrels. One of the early AR-15 prototypes had a 22" barrel with a rather long flash hider. With the 20" barrel AR-15 and the original Type A-E stocks, they all present like little carbines, not traditional rifles. A more correct description of the M4 would be a Small Caliber High Velocity Carbine. It's also interesting to note that the Russians have never classified the AK or AKM as rifles, but just Avtomat Kalashnikovs, while their rifles have Vintovka in the designation, i.e. Vintovka Mosina, SVT, SVD, etc. Exceptions to this are the VAL and VSS, which of course have tiny little barrels with large suppressors. Their overall lengths are still in the carbine department.
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  153.  @bravo_cj  No pistol caliber, no SMG: M1921 .45 ACP KP-31 9mm MP38 9mm MP40 9mm Sterling 9mm Sten 9mm PPSh-41 7.62x25 M3 .45 ACP Those are SMGs. Intermediate cartridges created a different class of weapons with the MachinenKarabiner, which should really be Select-Fire Carbine when looking at the MKb42, MP44/STG44, and Avtomat Kalashnikov.
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  154.  @bravo_cj  I have avoided using that word in this discussion. Combat actions don't have a place in the nomenclature because I can use a weapon in the defense, while conducting Reconnaissance, the offense, and as a personal defense weapon.
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  155.  @oscarosullivan4513  The front sight base is the only common feature though. Everything else is quite different.
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  156.  @capcamouflage  Another problem with the SKS was trying to shoot through firing ports in the BTR. AK solved that problem so you could use it as a firing port weapon while wearing equipment, which supposedly contributed to the exaggerated angle of the comb on the stock, unlike on the STG44. With the STG44, when you shoulder it, your face drops into a scallop on the comb and you have near-perfect sight picture. Not so with the first 3 AKs before the Modernization program with the AKM. AKM got a proper straight comb stock finally
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  157.  @MrBahjatt  Yes, if we did a clean slate technical analysis and classification matrix, some interesting things rise to the surface. 1. Cartridge dimensions and performance 2. Barrel + muzzle device length 3. Action type 4. Feed mechanism 5. Fire Control Mechanism 6. Action length 7. Operating system 3 of the things that make the STG44 stand out from all the others are its fire control mechanism, rate of fire, and constant recoil system. It's really nothing like an AK or AR-15, even though we place it in the same category of weapons. Handling, ergonomics, and performance under fire are dramatically different with the STG44. Also, the 7.62x39 intermediate cartridge doesn't behave much like 5.56x45mm. Recoil, velocity, terminal performance, trajectory, and effective range are noticeably different in the soldier's hands, as is carrying a combat load for each. Even the 7.92x33mm with its larger case head, but shorter COL, is much easier to carry in magazines in pouches than the high tapered 7.62x39 and its cumbersome curved mags, with longer COL. They're both intermediate cartridges with practically the same performance, but minute differences in case design and COL scale into noticeable consequences for the individual soldier and his squad. I've maintained for years that 5.56x45mm and 5.45x39mm are Small Caliber High Velocity cartridges, which is at least a major subdivision within intermediate cartridges, if not another category of its own.
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  158.  @PBVader  For .260 Rem and 6.5CM RLGS 22-24", last I recall was a .086" port, and those have way less bore volume than a .308 Win.
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  159.  @PBVader  Bootleg chokes the gas through a rotational valve in the carrier.
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  160.  @PBVader  As much of a fan of the AR-10 that I am, 6.5 Grendel kinda ruined AR-10s for me. I've been shooting Grendel since 2009, and they replicated like Gremlins.
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  161.  @0neDoomedSpaceMarine  From all I've been able to gather, the Suomi Kp31 9mm SMG was used more like an LMG from a fixed position covering open terrain. Once a linear formation of Russians on skis ventured out into the open, they would be cut down systematically. The Kp31 is very easy to control since it is constant recoil principle, very heavy, and had barrels made by a British accurate rifle company. Really odd combo. The barrel is easy to quick-change as well with a lever that releases the shroud. Shroud slides off, barrel pulls right out. The action is very slick too. Muzzle doesn't really rise.
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  162. There is no record of any discussion regarding firearm silencers/mufflers in the NFA proceedings of 1934. AG Homer Stille Cummings simply proposed them in the original draft legislation. During the debates about pistols, machineguns, and shotguns, suppressors were never once debated. We simply don't know why, or haven't uncovered any records that explain their inclusion in the NFA.
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  163.  @griftinggamer  Yup. The vast majority of the extreme cold reliability was already built into the AR-15 inherently, and well-established at Fort Greeley Alaska.....in the 1960s. Diemaco did some other tweaks to the design to make them even more reliable in colder conditions that Finland never sees (-50˚). AR-15s are one of the most reliable assault rifle designs I’ve ever used in extreme cold, and I have many years of using them in Finnish winter conditions, to include shooting them in high volume. There isn’t any other weapon I would want in the Finnish winter.
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  164. It's a criminal, unconstitutional act admitted as such by the man who proposed it, AG Homer Stille Cummings. He openly said during the NFA hearings that banning firearms is unconstitutional, so to avoid the law, he proposed a taxation of a right with a stamp that people would have to apply for and submit ID, photos, and fingerprints like a common criminal, to be processed by the Federal Government. The whole thing is unconstitutional and a fraud.
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  165.  @mtnbound2764  At the time, mobsters had already taken over huge portions of our government at multiple levels. The Prohibition years saw every major city, almost every Congressman and Senator, newly-created Federal agencies, and the FBI co-opted by organized crime. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, father of the NFA, was the DNC Chairman during the 1932 campaign season, who cheer-led for FDR in the primaries and general. His reward for his loyalty was AG of the US. J. Edgar Hoover was blackmailed by the Mafia to deny they even existed, and prevent the Bureau from investigating and prosecuting their bosses. NFA wasn't to fight crime, but to make the people weaker in the face of organized crime taking over more.
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  166. For exercising a right on top of all that.
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  167. It's simpler. There are literally organized crime syndicates who took over government, and they don't want their victims to be armed.
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  168.  @brandoninhofer6592  She refused to as I was growing up. She and my dad used it as a secret language to discuss finances and things they didn't want us to hear.
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  169. Carbon-15 was doing well initially with sales.  Bushmaster offered to buy the company, but the owner refused.  Bushmaster then contacted Accusport, Ellett Brothers, and RSR Group ( 3 of the major firearms distributors of the time) and told them that if they carried Carbon-15, they would no longer carry Bushmaster.  Bushmaster was the leading company for AR15 sales at the time (mid-1990s), and the 3 major distributors were making a killing selling Bushmaster AR15s. Professional Ordnance was then limited in its market opportunity, and the guns were known for cracking lowers, bolts breaking, and failures associated with early learning curves as well as the nature of polymer. Bushmaster came in after Professional Ordnance went under, and bought them for even less than the initial offering.  They then manufactured an AR15-compatible Carbon-15 under the Bushmaster name and logo.  Karma came around when Bushmaster sold out to Freedom Group, because Freedom Group basically gutted Bushmaster, shut down the Windham, Maine manufacturing, let the Bushmaster President/Owner go after 5 years, and retained the highly-valued Bushmaster name and logo (not that Bushmaster was a great AR15, but it had market recognition and sales that were excellent at the time). Freedom Group continued to logo AR15s made using DPMS and Remington parts at the Ilion, New York facility, which is why you see current lowers marked that way today, with "D" marked BCGs.
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  170.  @keithjurena9319  We had FN M16A2s in Infantry OSUT at Benning, then when I got to my first unit, they still had M16A1s but with A2 furniture. That was in 1994. We turned in our A1s in fall of 1995 and drew out new M16A2s. I preferred the M16A1 due to the weight, balance, trigger, S-S-A FCG, shorter length, and handling. That was active duty US Army, no Reserves or ANG. I went to Korea after that, where we had A2s, then came back to the US at Fort Lewis, and turned in our M16A2s in fall of 1997, grew out brand new M4s right before going to Panama for JOTC.
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