@Dysfunctional Civilian

Lets not forget they make HE projectiles for these

So it could be detonation in chamber

Think of the smelle

@FireRising. Bold words for someone in voring distance

I mean, it probably amounts to "use protection and wipe things down" and "don't get coerced into doing shit you don't want"

Bipod reduces muzzle sway by keeping your arms from getting tired. A vert grip does nothing on a bolt action rifle because it's never going to still be climbing by the time you work the bolt. The function of a vert grip is to give you something to hold the muzzle down with during auto fire

@majorepic. Theres an NFA amnesty period for estate guns, so they cant take the gun or charge you with crimes if you file a form within 14 days of the persons death

Well now he bought it before mandatory registration

And either he missed the memo (easy in a pre-internet age) or knew he couldnt register it because the serial had been defaced and wanted to keep it

So why was the serial defaced? Most probably it was stolen from the Army, maybe by the guy himself.

It should be possible to figure out from markings if it was an army gun or civ though. Its not like there were many auto m14s on the civ market

No. It says early 80s, meaning pre 1986

There really are only 2 possibilities then

1. The NFA form was misfiled, lost or destroyed.
2. It was stolen from the Army

Personally I think they should have just given the guy 25 years probation or something and stipulated that he give the gun back to the army after his death

Because in the 70s it was pretty common to steal shit from the Army

Including guns, jeeps, rocket launchers and so on

And the man is proven to be harmless

And he is either retired or has a job, in either case hes got enough money and life skills to comply to probation requirements

All that jailing him for 7 years does is tell the 20 or 30 other still living guys who stole guns during Vietnam in the U.S. to either stop showing them off or amnesty surrender them

Generally I would advocate for jail over probation in sentencing because most criminals (people who commit crimes out of economic necessity or unbelievable stupidity) aren't going to be able to comply to probation and would be better off going to jail for a shorter time

Probation is a good system for someone who committed 1 serious crime against property but not life & is capable of not repeating it

Any crime less serious should just be income-adjusted fines or community service imo

I think the registry for autos could be opened and some items like sbr sbs and supressors could be taken off the registry

Well, in the goblin slayer world goblins are parasites. Like viruses they can't reproduce on their own

6 egg omelettes

You are supposed to use potassium perchlorate and aluminum powder for pyrotechnic flash powder

This is the powder used in commercial fireworks & probably Dragon's Breath

The stoichiometric ratio is 34.2% aluminum by mass to 65.8% perchlorate by mass. Sometimes sulfur is added to make it easier to set off

It's fairly safe to handle and store (at least by the standards of explosives) but the usual precautions apply regarding mixing small amounts, using non-reactive materials, wearing protective clothing, having a plan if some thing catches on fire

Magnesium based powders used to be used for flash photography from the invention of the camera to about the 1930s when flashbulbs were invented

@RoflTank. Actually ancient romans put their gear on mules or slaves which followed the legion around

To the point that by removing camp followers and forcing a standing army to train in peacetime (as well as massively expanding the military by equipping poor Romans who could not afford swords armor etc) Gaius Marius's gave soldiers the nickname "Marius's Mules" and gave them a decisive strategic advantage in both combat readiness and marching speed

They serve beer at taco bell now

Im a delivery guy so taco bell runs to stoned people is 90% of my buisness after 11pm

Its a Christian fraternal society like the Freemasons

I guess its literally the catholic freemasons

The fact that its nickel plated and not gold means it belonged to a regular member

Its really just an ornamental sword, its used for ceremonies

Throat mics are gay

Mouthguard bone conduction mics are where it's at

This isnt the 1990s old man

I read the other one with S.M. Stirling and the Draka. The Chosen / The Reformer

Its an abomination caused by the ATFs own ban

Rifling is traditionally cut by a special gun drilling machine. Its a single purpose machine that pushes a very hard button through the barrel repeatedly. Sometimes 1 machine is several spindles together. They are liquid cooled.

Here is the cutting edge and base. You can see the holes for the coolant.

You just push the carbide through and the lubricant keeps it from setting itself on fire & floats the chips out

Home rifling to commercial quality is not possible. You can produce "rifling" with some screw jigs. Remember it's two steps. 1. Drill barrel from bar stock 2. Cut grooves with high pressure carbide button

You can cut some not terrible rifling if you have a smooth barrel blank that is reamed correctly already & a hydraulic press

You will need a button like this

Just get a catalog from whatever tool supplier is willing to sell to you

I'm pretty sure 5r can be cut with a button rather than an expensive broach. As long as the twist rate is the same inside

Weird looking rifling I tell you hwat. First i've seen it

Lmao

Russians also do something U.S. wishes they could do

All guns when test fired at factory have ballistic forensic profile sent to kgb

This is why that GRU assassination weapon was designed to have fake ballistic signiture of standard military AK. To confuse local police who would investigate assassination of journalist etc as homicide

@mojo what?

Bottle fields are based on the following principle: a tank drives through a field and crushes several self-igniting bottles, which cause fires and detonate nearby bottles. The tracks throw the burning fluid up on the tank's armour. The tank is forced to stop and is destroyed by tank destroyer teams. A burning field will also cut off infantry from its tanks.
A bottle field can also be used against infantry that is attacking without tank

The same bottles were launched in this Zuckerman bottle launcher

I guess a minefield isn't exactly a gun

Well what do you expect when the rifle is tuned with shims and crush washers. Thats literally every accurate rifle

Its a weapon from the 1960s that's been accurized by pounding a couple parts in with a rubber mallet and loctiting it down when the tolerances are measured right

For what it is they did a fantastic job. Remember that before the EBR, the alternative was pulling a wood stock M14 out of some ancient supply depot and having a SPC put scope rings on it with a cordless drill

You are supposed to maintain some extra ebrs in armory and mail problematic ones back to the states

Its adequate for the task it needed to do, the fantastic part is how quickly and cheaply the problem was solved

Compared to what the army would have paid for purchase of a new weapons system

Im trying to upload pdf

Its fucking with me

Well, have you ever accurized a battle rifle? Its not the easiest thing.

It was pretty impressive to me at least that they took shit that was put in storage in the 80s and within 20 minutes per rifle produced a 1.5moa weapon that could be issued to a soldier

It was such a shitshow before. You'd ask for m14 and get m14 with single magazine covered in dust lmao

Says right in the ebr manual not to do anything but clean it &

Im just saying that if you carefully put it back together and maintain the tolerances the accuracy is maintained

I think you have perhaps too high expectations for military weapon

As long as it functions reliably some degradation in performance during lifetime is not really a big deal

To get what you describe out of M14 platform would require a run of new parts, new tooling etc. U.S. military wisely decided to use accurized m16 for DMR and buy precision parts from KAC and similar companies instead of building a whole new factory to make M14 DMR weapons

With bonus of less training needed, better compatibility of parts and ammo in emergencies, enemy snipers not murking the guy with the different gun first

The SSgt story? I saw the photos but not the kill record

Eeeeh it was an ok battle rifle, just almost obsolete at introduction

Imagine if m14 was issued in 1936

Would have been pretty good

I always thought of that weapon as a sort of idealized Garand

Where the m14 is a bastardized Garand

Yeah im with ya there

Even so

If either these rifles were available in 1936 it would have been hot shit

Ah no I was thinking of the FN49