An AR-15 is *NOT* a military weapon, and never has been.

You obviously don't know your weapons history. Even I, a Swede, know that the AR-15 was used in Vietnam by the thousands.

(from Wikipedia)

In January 1963, Secretary McNamara received reports that M14 production was insufficient to meet the needs of the armed forces and ordered a halt to M14 production. At the time, the AR-15 was the only rifle that could fulfill a requirement of a "universal" infantry weapon for issue to all services. McNamara ordered its adoption.



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Ah, but they were. I carried one (but didn't fire it) when I was at Da Nang in 1965

I wonder if Dan can man up and give you an apology. He's probably too young to understand that every person who has ever served in the military knows his weapon by the time inside out. Including the name.

I for instance know everything there is to know about my service weapon, Carl Gustav m/45. And nobody can claim that it was not my dedicated weapon by then.

Oh, BTW, speaking of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War, the US Navy SEALs used the Swedish Carl Gustav m/45 extensively. One of the gun's qualities which appealed to the US Navy was that the m/45 can fire almost immediately out of the water (over the beach). 8-)

I wonder what weapon Dan used in his military days. If any...




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Hi! Björn,

On 05/23/2019 08:44 AM, you wrote:

I for instance know everything there is to know about my service weapon, Carl Gustav m/45.

Same, same here. On our L1A1 SLRs, I can still carry out safety procedures/instant actions (on misfiring), disassembly, cleaning and re-assembly in my sleep, from over 40 years ago. OTOH, I can't remember much about the Steyr AUG since I fired it during one range shoot only in my last year prior to retiring (as a civil servant) in '93.

I wonder what weapon Dan used in his military days. If any...

Must've been a M-14. It ain't anything like an AR-16/Colt.

Cheers,
Paul.

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Bj”rn Felten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

An AR-15 is *NOT* a military weapon, and never has been.

You obviously don't know your weapons history. Even I, a
Swede, know that the AR-15 was used in Vietnam by the thousands.

You're wrong. Those rifles were AR-15 *style* rifles. Not
AR-15's. When the military adopted that *style* of rifle, it was
designated the M-16.

(from Wikipedia)

In January 1963, Secretary McNamara received reports that M14
production was insufficient to meet the needs of the armed forces
and ordered a halt to M14 production. At the time, the AR-15 was
the only rifle that could fulfill a requirement of a "universal"
infantry weapon for issue to all services. McNamara ordered its
adoption.

That's misleading. Try reading more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle#Comparison_to_military_versions

I don't know how I can make it any more simple, so that you can
understand it. An AR-15 rifle is a *civilian* firearm and is not
used by *ANY* military.



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An AR-15 is *NOT* a military weapon, and never has been.

You obviously don't know your weapons history. Even I, a
Swede, know that the AR-15 was used in Vietnam by the thousands.

You're wrong. Those rifles were AR-15 *style* rifles. Not
AR-15's. When the military adopted that *style* of rifle, it was designated the M-16.

The NRA is incorrect. The AR-15 was designed, and used, as
a military weapon. Bj”rn cited Wikipedia for a very incomplete
and shortened history of the AR-15. The AR-15 used in the
military was *not* an AR-15 style rifle, as the NRA would like
folks to believe.

Here is the complete history of the AK-15, which soundly refutes
the made-up story concocted by the NRA about the weapon.

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-complete-history-of-
the-ar-15-rifle

(from Wikipedia)

In January 1963, Secretary McNamara received reports that M14
production was insufficient to meet the needs of the armed forces
and ordered a halt to M14 production. At the time, the AR-15 was
the only rifle that could fulfill a requirement of a "universal"
infantry weapon for issue to all services. McNamara ordered its
adoption.

That's misleading. Try reading more here:

That is *not* misleading, although it is incomplete due to shortened
length.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle#Comparison_to_military_versions

I don't know how I can make it any more simple, so that you can
understand it. An AR-15 rifle is a *civilian* firearm and is not
used by *ANY* military.

There are many AR-15 style rifles. None of them being the AR-15
that was designed, tested, and used by the US military.

The NRA does not want anybody to know that. Now they're busted.

--Lee

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Hello Bj”rn,

An AR-15 is *NOT* a military weapon, and never has been.

You obviously don't know your weapons history. Even I, a Swede, know that the AR-15 was used in Vietnam by the thousands.

Some gun nuts only listen to the NRA, which tells them only
what they want to know. Not that any of what the NRA says or
publishes is accurate, or even makes sense. Be that as it
may, here is the complete history of the AR-15 that is beyond
dispute -

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-complete-history-of-
the-ar-15-rifle

(from Wikipedia)

In January 1963, Secretary McNamara received reports that M14 production

was

insufficient to meet the needs of the armed forces and ordered a halt to M14 production. At the time, the AR-15 was the only rifle that could fulfill a requirement of a "universal" infantry weapon for issue to all services. McNamara ordered its adoption.

Now you done it! You questioned the NRA! Now prepare for a
rebuttal. By Wikepidea (written by the NRA).

--Lee

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By the way, AR-15's are not used in war. By anybody.

Ah, but they were. I carried one (but didn't fire it) when I was
at Da Nang in 1965

No, you didn't. Your memory is getting fuzzy.

You carried either an M-14 or an M-16.

An AR-15 is *NOT* a military weapon, and never has been. It also
is *NOT* the same thing as an M14/M16. I would hope that you know
the differences, and I'm wondering why you apparently do not.

Yes, he did. And many others did, too.

Complete history of the AR-15 rifle -

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-complete-history-of-
the-ar-15-rifle

--Lee

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Ah, but they were. I carried one (but didn't fire it) when I was

at Da

Nang in 1965

I wonder if Dan can man up and give you an apology. He's probably

too young

to understand that every person who has ever served in the military

knows his

weapon by the time inside out. Including the name.

I for instance know everything there is to know about my service weapon, Carl Gustav m/45. And nobody can claim that it was not my dedicated

weapon by

then.

Oh, BTW, speaking of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War, the US Navy

SEALs used

the Swedish Carl Gustav m/45 extensively. One of the gun's qualities which appealed to the US Navy was that the m/45 can fire almost immediately

out of

the water (over the beach). 8-)

I wonder what weapon Dan used in his military days. If any...

At Da Nang I was stationed at Monkey Mountain, which is on the end of the peninsula that forms the bay at Da Nang. There was a padlocked wooden
cabinet in the barracks that contained a bunch of AR-15s and magazines
for them, the key to the padlock was in a paper envelope taped to the
door. Anyhow, standard procedure was that one person in the truck would
be armed when the truck took the new shift up the hill, and that person
pulled the weapon out of the cabinet, carried it up the hill and the
person on the relieved shift would bring it back down and put it back int
he cabinet. Shortly before I left there was an alert for some (idiot)
reason and they decreed that *everybody* in the truck would carry a
weapon. OK, fine, we got to the top of the hill and I could NOT clear my weapon, the slide simply would NOT come back - four of us tried to do it
an none of us could. It took our guard two hours, with tools, to break
down that weapon and clean it. The next day there was a whole crew going through that cabinet cleaning and checking the weapons
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