Mini-14 QUESTIONS...

[F15H]

I was reading on the Ruger web page, that in the 80's the USMC used this weapon (mini-14). Does anyone here have any information on that? I was just wondering.
Thanks,
-Keith

 

[MrMurphy]

I remember hearing back in the early 70s they may have tested it, along with the Stoner and other weapons, but not seriously. As for actual issue, no, not that I've ever heard, the Mini-14 has always been a police/civilian weapon.
The actual M-14 it's modeled after was in general service for the Army, Marines and Navy (and still in limited use today in very small numbers, like in Afghanistan) from 1957-65, though some stayed in service later (my father deployed to Vietnam with an M14 in 1968 and everyone there had M16s already...he kept it about five months then they made him give it back).

The Mini-14 is used by the French Gendarmerie (state police), the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and most sheriff's departments in the U.S. But even in full-auto AC556 configuration I can't remember any military using it as a general issue weapon.

 

[Badger Arms]

IIRC, the Ruger was superior to all other guns in three very critical tests by the French state poiice. First, the Ruger was found to pass the 'drop test' whereby you could practice surrendering to no end without significantly damaging the weapon's usefullness to whichever invader came first. Second, it was found to be most suitable for attachment of a white flag. White flags were supplied by Ruger for the tests and performed admirably. Finally, the wooden stocks of the Mini-14 matched their boots and hats.






I know, but it's funny.

 

[chink]

Well... In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem. If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire, The A Team.

They were seen on TV in the 80's using Mini-14s Do they count as the military?

 

[BerettaNut92]

Chink...LOL!

The Skunkabilly Tactical mall security agency is on the verge of transitioning from M1 Super 90s to Mini-14s as the standard issue.

But we're not military. We're so black, we not only not reflect light, we absorb it.

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

mini-14s got used heavily by the 3rd ID in iraq when people couldn't find ak-47s with peep sights and didn't want to go to war with m9's.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Andrew, is that you??

 

[Zeke Menuar]

I thought that Mini-14's were tested by several transportation units of the military as back-up jackhandles.

ZM

 

[BamBam-31]

That's gotta be Andrew.

 

[Chuck Jennings]

I thought that Mini-14's were tested by several transportation units of the military as back-up jackhandles.

Didn't make the cut!

 

[Citadel99]

Desert BDUs with a woodland boonie cap? No rank or branch insignia on the collars? Somewhere in Iraq? Please. Somewhere in California maybe.

Mark

 

[F15H]

OUCH!!!!! YOU GUYS ARE HURTING ME!!! I've been laughing so hard my sides hurt.

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

deadpan humor does not translate well on a forum. check.

 

[F15H]

Go to www.ruger-mini-14.com this is where I saw this info. Please let me know, if anyone knows about this.

 

[MrMurphy]

That was a little one-half-a-line mention. I've known guys who were IN the Marines in the '80s, in Beirut, etc and the Mini-14 has NEVER to my knowledge been issued by the military. As I said, they might have tested it, but that doesn't mean squat. Back when they switched from the M16A1 to the A2, they may have tested it as an alternative, but obviously it didn't do very well........they adopted the M16A2 in 1983.


Mini's however are very popular with prison guards for wall guns to whack escapees.