Posted on Apr 10, 2015
Semi-Auto SAW Coming to the Civilian Market: who wants one?
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Naaaaah... Well... Yes.... No... Yes... CMON .... I need it.. I dont... I need it....
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It's the functionality that makes the SAW great. I think that would be a purchase full of disappointment and regret. haha
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
Good point, SGT Jeremiah B.. You would still probably have the sweetest looking weapon on the range...
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It's kind of neat, and would be fun for about a minute. But who really wants to link ammo at home.....?
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If I can pick one up for less then 2K, I will definitely be adding it to my collection... if it's over 4K, probably not. If it's somewhere in between 2 and 4K I will have to wait and see.
I never spent a lot of time with the M249, however I really really loved the M240.
I never spent a lot of time with the M249, however I really really loved the M240.
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SSG (Join to see)
That is a lot of money for a gun that cannot really perform the function that endeared it to so many. It would make more sense to just get SCAR 17S... which is already on my list to pick up someday.
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if I had the money to burn yes... but it kinda defeats the point of having it semi-auto. I meant who wants a semi-auto MACHINE GUN?
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
Great point, SPC (Join to see). That's just one more reason to repeal at least the Hughes Amendment to FOPA '86, and preferably get rid of GCA '68 and NFA '34, while we're at it.
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA agree, and while we are at it let's make ammo cheeper too
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Lt Col Mark Avery
SPC (Join to see) - The ammo prices are much more determined by supply and demand, both of the finished product and the underlying components. If you look at the prices of copper, tin, and lead over the years, that will help explain why you'll never see boxes of 9mm for the $5.99 we sold it for when the range opened in 2004. so if you,SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA, and all of us really start to push for his suggested repeals (all of which I've advocated for several years), maybe take that push into the voting booth, start pressing the NRA to actually stand up for the right to keep and bear the type of arms in current active military use, we could overcome the anti-gun forces allied with those who paid inflated prices for their precious pre-86 registered full autos. It's actually that latter group who will be the hardest to convince. That precious M16 they paid $15K-$25K would suddenly be worth a tenth or less of what they paid. There's no reason besides government regulation for the price of those weapons to be so high. Back again to supply and demand, because the government capped the supply thinking that would make them go away - wrong, it made those who owned them already suddenly wealthy.
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Hmm...semi auto yes, but it is not a mean nasty gun with a 30 round magazine. It's is just a belt, no one can hate this :)
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Why, if semi- you can get the same results using a modified AR15., SAW's greatest contribution was the auto firepower vs weight over the M60.
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