My least favorite myth:
Relax. No one is coming for your guns.
I'd say that one is more of a blatant lie than a myth
My least favorite myth:
Relax. No one is coming for your guns.
Technically, it would be illegal to sell parts from a Govt M-16 on gunbroker or e-bay unless it was first sold surplus. Were any sold surplus to the public? I doubt it. Any that went to L.E. cant be sold.
Technically, it would be illegal to sell parts from a Govt M-16 on gunbroker or e-bay unless it was first sold surplus.
The only Sarco parts kits I know of came from 1980s production. No early parts there.Sarco sold a lot of surplus kits with Vietnam era furniture
Exactly. a .223 tumbling through the air can be factual.
I suspect this one started when someone was sloppy when they restated a manufacturer claim.Another favorite.....
Fluting barrels makes them stiffer.
Why?
Metal has been removed that resisted bending.
Correct. In spite of the longevity and ubiquity of the claim, no verifiable evidence has ever been presented that Mattel was ever involved in any way in making any firearm parts. Nor has anyone ever been able to locate or present any Mattel stamped firearm parts, or any verifiable photos of any such parts. It is possible some were stamped as a joke, but not even any of those have ever been found/presented for examination/confirmation.There may have been some plastic parts with "Mattel" stamped on them, but Mattel didn't do it. Letter stamps are a common tool in armories, and it wouldn't be surprising that some armorers had some fun with them. But there is not one single shred of proof anywhere that Mattel made M-16 parts. No factory workers, designers, no contracts, no build sheets, not even a single part on gunbroker or ebay EVER.
Yep. Maybe 1 in 1000 might just happen to be the same.Another popular myth.....
You can "zero" scope's windage and elevation adjustments to center the inside erector tube and its lenses on the scope's outer main tube's optical-mechanical axis by setting them midpoint in their physical limits.
We have got to do something about our city's "Gun Violence"
The assault weapon myth is the one that really gets me. It's widely spread, totally inaccurate and is a great example of how propaganda works.
When they make up the names, words mean whatever they say they mean, and what we think they mean and the way we've been using them for generations no longer matters.
Liberals arn`t coming for your guns!