Mortdooley wrote on Jun 5
th, 2020 at 10:57pm:
Quote:Some tools in the hands of the untrained are simply too dangerous to contemplate. I am trained in the use of firearms because of my professional experience in the Army.
Don't overestimate your military training, they teach you just enough to not shoot your own foot with what they issue.
Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Do not equate the Australia Army's training with the US Army's. Such foolishness. Your Army only used to fire about 60 rounds a year. We fired at least 180 rounds each, per year. More often like 720 round a year plus. Not much, I grant you but it allowed to me to make sure all my diggers were proficient in their firearms.
Quote:I never bought an AR rifle, just stripped lower receivers and boxes of parts. I assembled several and they all worked just fine and every one was different to fill a different roll. Maybe your purchasers bought rifles chambered in .233 and bought ammo in 5.56, they are not the same and are only interchangeable one way! I've reloaded thousands of rounds for those rifles and tens of thousands of rounds for other calibers and both case length and crimp are very important to proper function!
The ammunition was manufactured in Australia to US Army specifications, Mort. As I said, if anybody was to blame it was your Army. QED.
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I still don't see how you could have fumbled out the magazine, being a professional and all.
I did not "fumble" anything. The weapon used to spit out magazines randomly. It was once explained to me because the magazine locking lug was worn and the BFA was set "too tight" for blank ammunition. I believe it was because the weapon was of poor design and manufacture. It was a piece of pooh. Of course your own guns wouldn't face either problem, being in civilian hands and being never used to fire blanks.
Quote:What is the first thing you do when you are handed a firearm, Mort?
Quote:Keep pointed in a safe direction
Depends on design, remove magazine, open the action and hand any ammo to an available responsible adult. With revolvers open the cylinder and dump the ammo in my hand and hand it off, for single action open the loading gate and remove ammo. Or just hold it for an instant to identify what type and hand it back.
In the military the first thing you are taught is how to "clear" the weapon. Make sure it is safe and that there is no ammunition in the action. When you are first handed a firearm at the armoury, the first thing you do is inspect the action and announce "clear!" in a loud, clear voice, Mort. It informs to all and sundry that you know what you are doing. Doesn't matter where you point the firearm, as long as you have cleared it's action. In the F88 Steyr that also includes removing the barrel from the weapon and inspecting the chamber.
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