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    Question about American Sniper RE: guns used

    There's a scene in the movie where some sort of higher up is telling Kyle the family of a guy he shot (not depicted in the film) was holding a Koran, while Kyle explains it looked a lot like an AK to him. I don't recall a line about the Mustapha guy specifically being armed with an AK...
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    Marine Corps rifle qulaification

    Is the rifle qual training how you fight or an exercise in ego?
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    I don't completely understand the need for collapsible stocks

    And the nature of the stock -- some adjustables provide much better cheek weld than others.
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    What happens when you press a gun into an attacker's body?

    +1. I was taught either retention position or if you have to contact shoot with a semi-auto pistol to basically punch out with the gun and then fire as retracting from contact with the other guy. Have never had occasion to do either in real life, so can't speak to how well they work when push...
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    Riflemans Creed

    I knew a guy who hated the Corps but was proud to have served who preferred "recovering Marine." ;)
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    Riflemans Creed

    The Rifleman's Creed is fairly old school. I can give it cool points. I am otherwise completely onboard with the observations above about the modern era, where anyone who can't think of a way to get an extra bump on their OER dreams up some new creed, eight bullet statement smart cart, etc...
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    Anyone know whatever happened to those Korean M1 Garands?

    +1. CMP could get into aftermarket sales for M14 and AR components if they wanted to (pretty saturated market as is, though), but as noted for all intents and purposes there are no civilian legal military-issued M14s our there, nor will there be without sweeping changes to federal firearms laws...
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    According to an article about the Ferguson shooting

    Area target. Line of police officers doing crowd control isn't too much different than a line of red coats or civil war soldiers. His story he was trying to kill other protestors (black lives matter except to the black guys who kill black people :rolleyes:), but if it were deliberate I'd be...
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    ATF director going bye-bye

    They're just accessing a database on sale decisions. More the clerks and admin types who do that to DOJ, FBI, whoever. We really could probably reduce overhead dramatically by consolidating federal law enforcement into 2-3 agencies instead of the sprawling mess we have now anyway.
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    Extinction of the AR-15 A2 variant?

    ^^^^ Nice. I don't miss the A2 that was current when I enlisted much, but have had most of the parts for a Vietnam retro build floating around for a while that I haven't quite gotten around to yet.
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    Popular handguns in the UK

    Big market for deactivated guns over there, too. At one point in time, I was looking at doing a Krinkov build and it was hypothetically cheaper to order an entire deactivated AKSU from the UK for the furniture to build one than trying to find Russian handguards and a correct flash hider...
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    Popular handguns in the UK

    When a gentleman might have carried routinely for self-defense we're back in Victorian times with revolvers, Sherlock Holmes style.
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    Why are 7.62x39 not common in bolt action rifles?

    Another vote for 308 and 30-30 hogging parts of the market a x39 bolt gun might niche into.
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    Sporting use of 5.56 Green Tip

    Plinking sure. If steel is involved in any stages of a course of fire, 855 may be expressly forbidden. When I was assigned to the cool kids in the .mil, we tried to get some M193 issued for training whenever possible, since 855 would tear up our various steel targets except at fairly long...
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    Full Metal Jacket?

    +1. You see "total metal jacket" sometimes. Relatively recent innovation since lead in bullets has become an environmental football in some places.
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    AK-74 has 2 bayonet lugs?

    Yep, their's are 40mm also, but non-compatible with M203 et al ammo.
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    Does green tip (ss109 or M855) penetrate body armor out of pistol-length barrels?

    Exactly. 5.56mm (any loading until Nerf introduces rifle ammunition) will defeat soft body armor. M855 will not defeat hard plates (have shot expired SAPI plates with it at ~ 10 meters, no go). The only thing it does "better" than other 5.56mm rounds (besides the abovementioned steel helmet...
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    Seems al Jezeerah thinks NRA is a boogie man

    Uh, guys, the NRA's website corroborates the body of the al-Jazeera America article the OP linked to (though obviously not the slant) -- http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/11466/no-compromise-nra-takes-on-united-nations/ Certainly the headline is histrionic and the writer is pro-gun...
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    Ferguson Breaking News

    Crazy good shooting with a pistol at a point target. The officers struck by the fire were part of an area target. Still good (or (un)lucky shooting) but nothing exceptional.
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