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February 8th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
He’s dissing us a bit, isn’t he? What’s the point of that? You can sell the DI system without calling us fantasizers or posers, can’t you?
I haven’t put more than a few thousand rounds through my AR, but nevertheless it’s tied up at the range a few times due to fouling in the carrier, when I had students who would rather have kept shooting than see me, once again, strip the rifle for cleaning (we do that at the shop beforehand).
It’s not that I don’t have the time to clean it at the range, it’s that I want a reliable weapon that stops only when I’m ready to stop. I want to just swab the bore now and then with a snake and that’s all for the day until I get home, but a DI often wants to take its own breaks on its own schedule. Some people, me included, keep a modern semi around as part of a civil responsibility to bear arms. If that arm has to be taken out of action every 300 rounds for a thorough cleaning, it’s arguably not as desirable as one of equal performance that does not.
Furthermore, there are plenty of shooting school courses that involve firing enough rounds in a single session to tie up the average DI AR. That’s more shooting than your average military firefight, so don’t tell me that if the military doesn’t need it, we shouldn’t want it. There a lot of things we private shooters do that the .mil doesn’t.
Anyway; I have a piston driven carbine that never stops. What’s the “problem” with that? It’s called an AK.
Let’s see of we can put this further into perspective;
Cops don’t drive dragsters, so why should anyone else have one?
Soldiers don’t drive Ninja bikes, so why would anyone else, unless there’s something wrong with them?
Furthermore; how many shooting accessories or technologies were developed for civilian uses that were eventually picked up by the military, after the fact? We hot rod, they take what’s good and useful that comes out of it. If you check your history, I think you might find that the piston ARs were first marketed to the public. I might be wrong, but certainly the first piston AR upper I saw was at a gun show. I didn’t see any mention of .mil using them until years later. I have it on good authority that this was also the case for reflex sights. They had been marketed to the sporting public and were later picked up for use in night ops in SE Asia.
No, Sir, it is the constant demand for performance in the private sector that makes this world go ’round. Performance for the sake of performance. It’s the competitive spirit that drives this wonderful, magical thing we used to call the free market. We’re Americans. We want the best and we damned well expect the best. We’ll find a practical use for it later. Or not. Until then, fuck off and mind your own business.