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Shooting an M1 Garand in a Carbine Competition

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Tyler Kee is a little light on 5.56 ammunition these days. In fact, he has more .30-06 on hand at the moment than anything else. So when I invited him to join Robert and myself for a friendly carbine competition out at the Austin Rifle Club, he decided that his M1 Garand would be the weapon of choice and not his AR-15 rifle. While the 8-round clips probably slowed him down a little, there’s something to be said for watching someone literally blowing the targets off the stands with a rifle manufactured before the United States entered the Second World War.

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  1. It looks like he’s only getting five rounds out of some of his clips (I wonder if the gun-banners ever mislabel them magazines for consistency).

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  2. I’ve read a number of comments regarding how immature young soldiers /sailors /Marines are and how that makes carrying dangerous… I’m fairly certain that’s a similar argument to what the antis use. Also incorrect. My battalion had exactly zero NDs over a 9 month period in Iraq, and we never took our hands off our rifles, except for the 6 showers I had during the first half of my deployment. They were only unloaded, but magazine inserted, only while sleeping. And then only sometimes, when we *really* felt safe. (or on the rare occasion when we stopped by a big base). Mistakes are few and far between, but frankly, I’d rather those mistakes be made and dealt with, rather than side stepped. I’m more bothered by the straight up fact that little old lonesome me at my house, with a pistol, am more capable of defending myself from armed attackers than the 3000 or so Marines who lived in my barracks cluster at night. Even the armed OOD would have taken a few minutes to hoof it to the barracks. it’s unacceptable. Just as unacceptable as telling the rest of the populace that they should be comfortable with waiting 5-10 minutes, if they’re lucky, for police to take care of the psycho who’s trying to kill them now.

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  3. It was a cute line.

    I think LEO sales dept, probably figures SWAT is just a bunch of ordinary guys doing a job.
    From a supervisor’s POV i can see the tendency toward no knock and wee hours of the morning appointments.

    Course I come from the old timer attitude of one officer with paper during business hours but thats why i am obsolete! grin

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  4. I like the idea of putting up “gun free army zone” signs around the base for a thousand yards in every direction. That will make the bases safer, right?

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  5. IMHO it isn’t even a crappy stock. With the exception of the difficulty in moving it forwards and back — although you CAN adjust it like 3″ in and out from center — it feels just like a normal M4 stock. It’s a perfectly good stock. As in this review: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/03/jeremy-s/project-build-faux-integrally-suppressed-sbr-9mm-ar-15

    I’m glad to see this, because it sure sounds a whole heck of a lot like what I wrote in that review:

    “The BATFE has stated that the SB15 brace was not designed or intended to be a shoulder stock when attached to a pistol. Therefore, a pistol remains a pistol with this unit attached. The law applies to the design intention, not the actual usage. Note that it doesn’t say “when attached to your arm.” By way of example, a crowbar might work great as a hammer, but it will always remain a crowbar. It just so happens that this brace also works great as a shoulder stock.”

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  6. The working definition of “Boston Strong” is a bunch of mindless zombies chanting “USA! USA!!” at armed-to-the-teeth, militarized cops and actual troops marching down their streets.

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  7. “We apologize to Marine Ivan Lopez,”

    The Ivan Lopez you falsely displayed yesterday who was not the shooter was not in the Marines he was in the Army. (Face Palm) So yesterday you humiliate him, give grief to his family then today you apologize to him and put him in a branch he never served in? Great fact checking going on here.

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  8. Enough is enough.

    How many military servicemen and women need to die from firearms?
    This is where I have to side with the gun control crowd and agree that weapons are bad.
    I suggest firearms, especially assault rifles, be banned in all branches of the military, and handguns get a limited capacity of 3 rounds.
    Combat troops should also not be issued any ammo in case someone wants to commit suicide or a warcrime.

    I hope Feinstein reads this, and takes it up with the Pentagon.

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  9. I am a democrat I believe in what they stand for EXCEPT trying to take our gun RIGHTS away I bout my first gun at 30 last year not because of fear but a planed decision. I am going to purchase my second this year. when I go look at guns almost 70% are asking the same question I do so I know they are relatively new to gun ownership. Also iI have relatives who dont own guns who cant stand the thought of gun control and they are democrat too. Do the democrats know that this could affect voting?

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  10. Yep saw those 2 retired colonels on O’REILLY. All 3 agreed you shouldn’t arm soldiers. Sad mopes. Sure glad my son isn’t active duty military anymore.

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  11. The statement could also equally be written, IMO, as:

    “A well-regulated Electorate being necessary to self-governance in a free state, the right of the people to keep and read Books shall not be infringed.”

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  12. I’m all for concealed carry, however, wouldnt that be chaos if 6-10 legally abiding citizens all had firearms drawn and then the police showed up on scene? Assuming the active shooter was not properly identified and cornered in a room… it would be havoc? Who’s the active shooter? Who’s the good guy? So many people with guns! At least police have uniforms to distinguish them! Just my two cents

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  13. Common sense dictates that reasonable restrictions on books are necessary and constitutional. nobody needs access to technical manuals with high information diagrams and charts. Those are for the professionals and no self respecting fiction reader that subscribes to entertainment publications, such as the New York Times, even wants them in their homes.

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  14. If NYC didn’t permit armed self defense when there were over 2000 murders a year, it’s not going to permit it now when there are fewer than 425 murders a year.

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  15. A “Religious Zealot” willing to blow themselves up to murder a bunch of defenseless men, women and children in the name of their Allah(god), A bunch of people willing to murder(abort) millions of defenseless babies, mostly by Liberal/progressives; hundreds of millions murdered in the name of no god by communists/marxists (These are the ones that progressives look to for guidance)

    In the support of hundreds of millions murdered in the last hundred years by these people; is it “lunacy”? or is it just plain evil?

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  16. SWEET!

    Just sold mine on GB for $1577.

    I liked it, but several things made me sell it:

    (1) Part availability. Bazillion places selling bazillion parts for the AR platform.
    (2) Nothing so incredibly better about the TAVOR over the AR platform.
    (3) Manipulating bolt hold open latch is a royal pain.

    So, buh-bye Tavor, it was fun to shoot you. Great rifle, just not for me.

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