M14 DCM petition

[Moonclip]

Also, many surplus carbines were sold in the 1960s I believe. Also, many were given away as foreign aid in MAP programs. As recently as the 1990's, when Chiapas heated up in Mexico, I think Clinton gave like 30000 M1 carbines to the Mexican government.

I bet there is still a lot of them in places like Vietnam and Taiwan. And a Guatemalan friend of mine remembers getting worked over with the buttstocks of a couple of them during all the civil war and fighting going on there until the mid 1990's.

 

[Sleeping Dog]

I didn't think there was any such thing as a "semi-auto M-14"?

I think most of the M14's were semi-auto. I only saw one with "da switch" and the instructor didn't let it out of his sight. My battalion had hundreds of the things, all semi-auto. I was in the rear with the gear, so can't speak for the whole army, just my little area.

 

[Ash]

It will never happen. The once a machine gun always a machine gun rule applies, as has been stated. Ask anyone who bought the MKS re-welded M14's made from scrapped and torch-cut M14 recievers from Israel. The ATF confiscated all of them (some 800 if I recall) from the owners. Most owners opted to dismantle their rifles and keep the parts. The early ones were SOL with entire rifles.

Further, most M14's are gone now anyway. Between Taiwan and the former combloc nations, there really aren't any M14's left in country, save for those welded pieces in ROTC lockers and in museums.

And even if they were to be made available, their cost would be so high that it would be only for collectors and too expensive to shoot. Does anyone really think that they would cost the same as the Garands? They'd cost more like a Russian SVD.

But, like my dad used to say, if a Bull Frog carried a switch blade, the cotton mouth wouldn't eat him. These will never be made available unless the ATF changes their machine gun ruling, which they will not.

Ash

 

[Ash]

Most might have had the selector switch plugged, but all real-deal M14's can be converted to select fire.

Ash