Originally posted by n9nwo
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A big problem is that hardly anyone in the civilian world has even a rudimentary understanding of what considerations there are, and are influenced by gun rag opinions based on anecdotes from disgruntled wood and steel fans from long ago who might have held some rank that was enough to give them more clout for their article in American Rifleman. Then those opinions get carried into the service by new volunteers, who think they have it all figured out because they read an article, or heard it from Cleatus at the local gun shop.
An example relevant to this thread is this continuous discussion of a select-fire 7.62 NATO rifle, which is so far out from reality that any of us who were 11Bs or 0311s just shake our heads and wonder why it is that in 2017, people still don't know that we don't even shoot 5.56 on Automatic from M4s, save a few extremely rare circumstances.
Why is that in 2017, we don't have people that can easily look at previous select-fire 7.62 NATO service rifles and realize that professional armies like the UK and US deactivated or never used the select-fire feature on the SLR L1A1 (FAL) or the M14?
When I drew my first issued M14 from the arms room, it was capped where the selector should have been because the Army learned back from the start that it's just not feasible to equip a 7.62 NATO service rifle with automatic select fire. Now they've made it a requirement for the ISCR.
"He who studies history is condemned to watch he who doesn't repeat it."
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