Saturday, December 22, 2007

today I made Sarah Brady cry.


I shot an AR-15. A big black scary assault rifle. With a barrel shroud. Converted to shoot .22 LR, it has tricky little peep sights, a pistol grip, a collapsible stock...and a big magazine. 30 rounds of fun!

I think my cheeks hurt from grinning.

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  2. Fun, aren't they? You should have seen me grin some years ago when I got to fire a Thompson on full auto.

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  4. Google "Small Arms Firing School."
    Your government will subsidize you learning to fire the real M-16 Air Force Target Rifle, with a real military instructor, at the site of the National Matches, which is less than two hours away. Nice way to spend a day, and you meet the nicest people there.

    Arsmcor/Ruco had an M-1600, a Squires-Bingham action pimped up to look just like an M-16, that sold for $79.95 off the rack. From five feet away, it'll spook the rangemaster, and since it's designed as a .22, it has a faster lock time in semi-auto than the Stoner. Easier to clean, too. That was my son's first rifle

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  5. AR-15s are WAY cool, 'cause if you've got two lowers and three uppers, you've got six different rifles.

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  6. Anybody know what kind of scope that is on top?

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  7. w00t! Anyone who can make Sarah Brady cry is my kind of people. Glad you had fun.

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  8. Be careful, black rifles are very contagious!

    The wife and I spent a Saturday shooting my friend's AR. Within a month we had started our AR build.

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  9. Well, not actually an assault rifle (not selective fire), but still pretty cool. :-)

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  10. Barrel Shroud!! Barrel Shroud!!Barrel Shroud!! Aren't they fun with that boingy noise the buffer makes?!

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  11. I know someone makes a drop-in .22 conversion for the AR. I'm seriously considering it due to the price of .223 / 5.56.

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  12. In honor of your offense, I did the same today.

    Only.. it was an AR180b with an Eotech, in 5.56.

    Better get Sarah a bigger bucket to cry into.

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  13. In .22 LR yet! That's so touchingly....PERSONAL for Sarah.

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