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I can't picture that dude walking 50 miles in a day.

M 14s are Class III firearms and will never be sold to the public. Nor have they been destroyed. They were warehoused and are now being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.

M 14s ae capable of fully auto fire by use of a selector key, (this fact means they can't be sold to civilians) which the squad leader was supposed to carry. They are either full or semi, but not select fire by the rifleman. The E2 version may have had a select switch, can't remember. It was a poor automatic rifle, even with the hand grip attached to the sling attached to the bipod to try to hold it down.

That would be Hap Shaughnessy, although I may have mispelled the name......d:^)

The M-14 was designed to be primarily a semi-automatic battle rifle like the M-1 Garand. It had a selector switch to provide the option of fully automatic fire, but most of those issued were semi-automatic only. The M-21 rifles had the selector welded to disable automatic fire, as did those moved through the DCM for civilian and law enforcement sales. Those which were permanently disabled to semi-automatic fire only are Class I weapons, but since there were manufactured in the 1960s and 1970s, they do not fall under the restriction on civilian ownership of post 1986 Class III weapons.

I had already received a post card from the DCM to pick up my M-14 when President Clinton ordered them destroyed. 479,367 M-14 rifles were destroyed by his executive order, according to the DCM, according to the record I saved at the time. It may have been more before it ended. The NRA could tell you, if someone wants to ask them for their number. 480,000 destroyed would still leave at least that many in good working condition somewhere.

Yeah...who started that whole idea??

Just to make sport of some poor soul.....


Ingwe

With you folks being so ignorant in so many subjects, it is handy for you to have generic insults and visual props that you can use over and over in many threads, and other web sites, attacking many different people.

hey fluff,

from what i see, it's pretty much just you.

Sounds like a good time for a topic change........

While we are discussing military sniper rifles, I have a question for the gallery. After my first deer hunting trip to North Carolina, I came home wanting a long range hunting rifle. I met a young gunsmith from Finland that suggesed a Wimbledon Cup rifle. I was 19 and impressed with the project and said to go for it. I used a pre-64 (modern run) action, a Winchester Marksman stock and a heavy Shilen barrel chambered for .30-.338. I've had the opportunity to shoot deer with it for 18 years and I've always been impressed with it. It weighs about 14 pounds, which most folks can't get past.

I've got to wonder what the Marines have used for rifles, because it would make sense to train with what you take to the field. All the rifles I've seen have been shorter stocked, shorter barreled. I never see American soldiers with rifles having big McMillan A5 style stocks like you see on the .338 Lapua rifles. Does it sound like I have a typical Wimbledon Cup rifle? Do soldiers compete with rifles similar to what they carry?

yeah, liarboy likes to say "we" and act like there's somebody besides him being laughed at. it's you, Lee....it's all you.

He might have a mouse in his pocket.....


Ingwe

Gotta love a good burnie...

Looks like Ben Spies??

Who else......

Got to finally see him in person at WSBK in Utah last May.
The kid is incredible!

He don't have anything on ol Lee I'm sure.

who do you think gave the nascar boys the idea of doin' their burnouts (maybe someone should check the patent/copyright [as in invention] records?????)

I always think of this when Wiki24 comes up.......

Lee, this is your big chance. I'm sure that you have kept that very important document somewhere safe.

Just go get it, take a photo, and post the photo on this thread to prove all your disbelievers wrong.

If you have time during your current project (probably the redesign of the universe, because (according to your posts on this site) you have done everything else), post a pic of the your .375 as well.

Great Caesar's ghost....the fame of our Lee 24 has reached even to the Antipodes!


Surely, they must know his name on Alpha Centauri.