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Len Savage interview
Here.
On the way to DC for the Heller argument, so blogging will be light for a while.
UPDATE: reader Chris Masure writes that part two of Len's interview is available at: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/03/14/tucker.government.guns.part.2.cnn
Comments
I know a lot of folks who have had at least one "slamfire" from certain semi-auto weapons...SKS's are known for it, and the prophet John Moses Browning's sacred 1911A1 is not immune, if I remember correctly. A broken spring, a bent or dirty firing pin, too much cosmolene/ppowder residue/mud left inside the bolt of a milsurp rifle and the pin can be left sticking out of the bolt when it slams shut...Whoever reported, prosecuted, participated in the raid or in other ways persecuted this individual in this matter should be taken out to the nearest firing range and used for target practice.
Posted by: kalashnikat at March 14, 2008 03:03 PM
If not cleaned sufficiently, the SKS is well known to slamfire.
Let's also not forget that any closed-bolt gun will cook off the magazine if shot a sufficient number of times to heat up the barrel.
Posted by: Jim W at March 14, 2008 03:56 PM
"The term “machinegun” means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger."
OK, so if I can design a firearm that requires TWO distinct functions of the trigger to initiate full auto fire, is it not a machinegun?
As written, it's only a machinegun if full auto is initiated by a SINGLE function of the trigger.
If full auto is initiated by pushing the trigger forward, then backward, by my count that's two functions of the trigger.
Or if the gun cooks off a round, multiple functions of the trigger were required to bring the weapon up to such a high temperature. That seems to be outside the "single function" construct as well.
Posted by: denton at March 14, 2008 10:48 PM
That Pantene Pro-V doesn't make my hair that shiny and sleek. What's up with that?
Posted by: Letalis Maximus, Esq. at March 15, 2008 06:55 AM
Personally, I use Hoppes 9 as a conditioner.
Posted by: Chris at March 15, 2008 08:44 AM
I use WD-40 because I am old school.
Posted by: Jim W at March 15, 2008 01:54 PM
Hoppes 9 is way older than WD-40!
Here is an indepth discussion on the incident.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=6&t=507483
Posted by: RKM at March 15, 2008 05:28 PM
This "alleged" slam fire incident has more to it than meets the eye. There are M16 parts involved, and more than a little "he said/he said."
The real "truth" will never come out on this one. In my view, it was best left alone by our side.
Posted by: Letalis Maximus, Esq. at March 16, 2008 01:24 PM