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Gun Control & RKBA

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts) Tue Dec 31, 2013, 01:53 PM Dec 2013

For those unclear about the technical differences

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For those unclear about the technical differences (Original Post) Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2013 OP

My Bushmaster does not have a "fun" switch. ManiacJoe Dec 2013 #1

None of my AR's have the third fun position. ileus Jan 2014 #2

Mine does. AtheistCrusader Jan 2014 #3

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)

1. My Bushmaster does not have a "fun" switch.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 11:25 PM

Dec 2013

That is probably a good thing else I could not afford to feed it.

ileus

(15,396 posts)

2. None of my AR's have the third fun position.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)

Wed Jan 1, 2014, 12:25 AM

Jan 2014

While it would be fun to have full auto to play with at the range with the kids and wife, there's hardly any practical application. For self defense my plain old semi autos ARs function fine.

Everyone should have at least one AR, they're just so much plinking fun.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

3. Mine does.

Reply to ileus (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 2, 2014, 06:03 PM

Jan 2014

It was made before 1986, so the selector goes to Rock and Roll, but without replacing the bolt, carrier, disconnector, and the tang on the hammer with actual M-16 parts, it still just fires in semi-auto mode.

Pre-86 the 15 and 16 often came off the same assembly line, and the parts were simply supplied in the modified form.

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