Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "The French Finger Trap: MAS-36 Bayonet Shenanigans" video.

It was clever to blame it on the kids. I wasn't a tanker, but it seems like a tank gun's breech block would be incredibly hard to break. The kind of thing that would require the sheer destructive finesse that only a bored soldier can muster. And, in classic military style, "iono, it was like that when I got here" is the answer to the inevitable questions about how this unbreakable item was broken. This time, the kids were a convenient excuse. I'll bet in a pub in Britain somewhere, a grizzled old veteran still tells the story about how he broke the tank breech block and blamed it on kids. And I salute that man.
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It's France, so I imagine it happens quite frequently.
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When you're bored in the barracks and you find two guys with skateboards and raid the broom closet, you don't need robots.
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@KageNoTora74 The salesman was lying. Marines were not allowed to have unsecured two-way communication devices downrange.
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I would imagine if you detach both of them, you can pull them both off at the same time.
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I've used the lower of an AR as a hammer in a pinch before. It worked fine. And what's wrong with having 150 rounds of live ammo in your backpack? I'd also like to know what "more or less" loaded is.
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@iatsd As a publican thanking a soldier for his job, he's joking about the legendary alcohol consumption of Australian soldiers. I was lucky enough to get to know some of them when they were training at Twentynine Palms where I was stationed, and they outdrank the Marines - not an easy feat. But have fun being a whiny bitch.
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@thhseeking Well, "tuna" is also apparently what they call cactus fruit in Mexico. But the reality is that combine idiots and tort lawyers, and the company knows it's easier to just avoid a product liability suit by slapping warnings that should go without saying on product labels. Like "do not eat" on silica packets.
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@SonsOfLorgar The companies who make these things have legal teams. And those legal teams' job is to protect the company from liability. It usually isn't that someone actually did the stupid thing that it warns you not to do, it's mostly the lawyers anticipating what some idiot could do. In America, we don't regulate everything to death. It's tyrannical and costly to do so. Instead, we have tort law. Basically, if you make an unsafe product and someone gets hurt or killed using it, you can be sued for substantial amounts of money. These companies, for obvious reasons, try to avoid being sued for substantial amounts of money. And that's where the warning labels come in. If some idiot puts their kid in the microwave and then sues, the company's lawyers will be able to show the court that they specifically warned not to do that - and hence the idiot killed his kid through no fault of the manufacturer, but through his own negligence in failure to heed a warning and in using their product for a purpose not intended. It can get ridiculous at times, but it beats government regulation.
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They probably were given inferior wine, and had their snail ration cut off for a few days.
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They're French. One of them is probably doing "push ups" on top of the other one.
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@BaconheartStuff You assume mostly incorrectly. In the US military (at least the Marine Corps, but I assume the other services as well), units get an allotted amount of ammunition per fiscal year. If that ammunition isn't used up, they get a smaller allotment next year. So the way it works is that ammo that doesn't get used in training just gets dumped off the trucks in the field. Now, ammo isn't cheap, and this dumped ammo is an excellent source of free ammo if you own guns in the proper calibers, as I did and do. I'd always come back from the field with a ton of ammo, which I'd then go shoot out of my own guns on my own time. Nobody cared. I didn't bother hiding that I was taking ammo I'd find in the field, and not once did anyone suggest that I shouldn't do it. So I'd often come back with a few hundred rounds in my pack, and it was a win-win situation - whoever dumped it in the first place got rid of "excess", and I saved hundreds of dollars. This may be different in countries that (1) have significantly smaller budgets than the US does, and (2) frown upon private gun ownership.
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@BaconheartStuff The only time in the Marine Corps where I ever saw them trying to account for every single round was at boot camp. They don't want recruits having live ammo anywhere but the firing line, which I suppose makes some amount of sense. In the fleet, they don't care so much.
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@Corvious I have yet to come across a truly Marine-proof piece of equipment. And if we heard that something was Marine-proof, we took it as a challenge.
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Cmon, you know the trucks are never there 15 minutes after you draw weapons.
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They're French, they can't help it.
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@kkwun4969 A couple years ago, some company that was selling something billed as some kind of wonder-lube was exposed for just selling vegetable oil. I can't remember the name of the company. I'm sure the lawsuits that stemmed from that fracas are ongoing. But yeah, the upshot is that cooking oil works.
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@Statusinator well, I know who'd be paying the gunsmith if some idiot did that with my Glock.
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@Zack_Wester You get a few bored grunts, and amazing things can happen.
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@stochinblockin Not when I was in you couldn't.
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@shura0107 Yup, that's it. Fireclean. I'd forgotten the name. Not ideal by any means, but apparently it works well enough. Not that I'd ever buy it. I like CorrosionX. CLP is good too. I think they're similar, they smell the same.
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@doraran2138 I've never seen one. I imagine it might be kinda cool to handle one. But anything that shoots $150 rounds that you can't get anymore is pretty worthless as anything other than a historical curiosity. Plus those Gyrojets were notoriously inaccurate. I don't remember the specifics, but I read somewhere that they hold something well over 20 MOA. At that point, a hit is just luck, you can't actually hit anything deliberately.
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@doraran2138 Yeah, I think I'd rather have a Nambu. They may be dangerous and not very good, but at least they kinda work.
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@JohnDoesSports Does anyone actually listen to safety briefs?
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@reckyourself6948 I got out in 2007. And maybe it's a unit thing, or they don't want you keeping ammo in the barracks (I lived off base) or whatever, but I can't imagine that they care what happens to discarded ammo left in the field.
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So that's the excuse?
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@doraran2138 It's not like most of us are getting our hands on a Gyrojet anyway. They failed and aren't made anymore for a reason.
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There's always "that guy". The kind of guy who you could lock into a padded room with two steel ball bearings, and he'd manage to break one and lose the other.
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