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The government is destroying surplus M14 rifles that could be sold through the CMP. Here’s a petition to get them to stop.
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December 17th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Didn’t I hear recently that units were having a hard time getting M-14s in Iraq and Afghanistan for use as designated marksman rifles?
December 17th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
We were good enough to pay for them when Uncle Sam wanted them, we’re just not good enough to be allowed to own them.
Uncle Sam sez: “Shut up and pay your taxes!”
December 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Sad? It should be criminal.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
This petition has been floating around the intarweb for years. The Army stopped destroying M14s years ago during the Billy Jeff administration. They have in fact refurbished as many as they can to send them out on active duty to Iraq and Afstan. CMP just this year recalled the last club-held M14s to return to the military. CMP will NEVER, repeat NEVER sell M14s to civilians because “once a MG, always a MG” according to BATman.
That said, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if the One decides to fire-up Cap’n Crunch down at Anniston again.
Eagle 1
December 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Well…what was the manufacture date?
December 17th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
There should be a law against the waste of taxpayer’s money.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:42 am
QFMFT! Too bad it’d put 80% of the government out of work and/or behind bars.
December 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
M14s were made prior to 1965 when the M16 was adopted. Yes, it is before the ’86 ban but if it is not already on the NFTR roster forget it. And they will never surplus them out like the M1 or carbine. There’s a better chance that Christy Brinkley would show up at my door and say “Take me, I’m yours!”
Eagle 1
December 19th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Eagle, that logic is the same as the “machine guns aren’t in common use” argument. If they were government they weren’t required to be registered which is why they weren’t.