Quoted: I'm glad us non LEO peons got a glace
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Hey, I'm a non LEO peon too! I just invited my buddy to the range and he brought his M16. The AK is mine and it is semi-auto. He is a door buster. That's why he has such cool gear. I am the guy in the 2nd pic, he is the one with the Glock 23 and the AK.
I used to have another friend who was big into full auto gear and I miss shooting with him. He had lots of neat toys.
The guy with me used to have an M4 but his department just recently went to the Commando. The M4 was 3-round burst. I think I liked it better. The Commando is so short and light, it is very hard to control when you cut it loose. Even spitting 2-3 rounds at a time is difficult compared to the M4.
I know lots of people have hard-ons for full-auto and super short barrels, heck I used to also. But once you actually handle one and shoot them, they are much harder to master than say a semi-auto 16" barreled gun. The light weight, short sight radius, short barrel (loss of muzzle velocity and sometimes they tend to keyhole sooner) and tendency for them to "walk" just really makes them specialized. To be perfectly honest, I would much rather have a regular old RRA or Colt M4gery for what I do. Oh and the noise, good God that ten inch barrel is loud!