Afghan M14

[Loy Hamilton]

Afghan "West Pointers" with their chrome M14's.

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[Calif-Steve]

"The Freedom Builder Magazine". I prefer my magazines to hold 30 rounds. I served as an Advisor in Viet Nam. This sure brings back bad memories.

[John R.]

If you take a look at the Right Marker's rifle you will notice the ABSENCE of either the connector OR any of the other"nasty" parts like selector shaft locks etc.

I wonder if they didn't have some outfit like Springsteen Armoury or whoever build them up a few hundred(?) chromed up drill rifles out of(HOPEFULLY) scrap parts.

Scruffy looking lot is all I can say and the way they are goofing off on a parade square would have had MY old drill instructors in a tiz."IDLE ON PARADE" or some such ROAR even IF they were at "Stand Easy".

Gaudy looking uniforms too.I am going to print off a copy to show a long retired Royal Afghan Army General I know just to get his impression.HE trained in Germany way way back.Shows too ! His oldest daughter works at my bank and is DROP DEAD GORGEOUS I might add.JR

[Allen]

Wonder if they are Polytech's. China bought our tooling and they still produce them as far as I know. Marstar in Canada sells them for $400 Canadian money ( would be less for U.S. dollars but thanks to clinton they can't sell to U.S.citizens ).

[Dan Wilson]

John, I do see the cutout for the FA selector on the stock.
From what I understand, even the US Army didn't keep the FA parts installed normally, having the selective fire parts were the exception rather than the rule.

Dan