Old news. That article is a hashpipe dream. The army regrets every one of those rifles they cut up or gave away YEARS ago.
More stuff from the M1/M14 board, regardless of what you think of Fulton Armory....
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I'm hostile to THIS campaign because it is so poorly researched and so
poorly developed that IT HURTS the cause of Second Amendment Rights and
paints all gun owners, especially those of us interested in M1's, M14's
and
other military and military styled firearms as dim-witted, simplistic,
red-necks.
The basic facts DO NOT check out. There aren't that many M14's left in
stocks, nor is there any current plan to destroy them that anyone can
get
at. In fact, as anyone who has been following the wars over the past
nearly
TWO years can attest, the M14 is in the greatest demand it has ever seen
since Vietnam. Every military organization that can get their hands on
them
are snapping them up for employment at the squad level as designated
marksman's rifles. Under those conditions alone, no one is going to be
destroying M14 rifles except by cannibalizing unserviceable rifles for
spare
parts.
Those are objective, demonstrable facts. If I called for people on this
board to bring out their images of M14's deployed in Afghanistan and
Iraq,
we would have quite a few in no time flat. Go over to Jouster.com's
M1/M14
board and ask the question there and you'd get even more, plus very
credible
information from Gus Fisher (who retired from the Marine Corps Rifle
Team
Equipment's Rifle Shop (he ran it) and was involved in the Marine Corps
DMR
program.
-Andrew Preistley
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But Andrew is entirely right when he avers that the point is moot. I
have carefully reviewed the new RFP for the M14's replacement; the
resulting product will be more AR than not. Unfortunately circumstances
require me to be circumspect, as a condition of the privilege of review
of the RFP was that I not make it public, but a Garand-action rifle will
*not* be part of the solution. The requirements will drive designers in
the AR & AK directions.
Responding to the RFP would be a fun project; Clint & I wish we had a
couple million dollars and a year of 14-day weeks to work on it.
Very best regards, Walt Kuleck
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