For AR and/or AK guys....

[Megawatt maker]

Accuracy issues are mainly what I’ve heard about, but I’ve also heard of receivers cracking and general reliability problems in dirty circumstances. I’ve never had or shot one, which is why I only mentioned that I’ve “heard” these things. It is pretty high on my list of things I’d use if the AR had never existed, I just have questions.

I haven't had either of those issues. Mine shoot dirty and clean with complete reliability. That said, I haven't crawled through the mud and sand with one either.
None of the receivers Springfield has ever used were GI issue...at least to my knowledge. They early ones, like one of mine, where almost all GI parts save the receiver, and stock..as the cut out for the full auto selector is not present.
I have read, all second hand, of some Springfield receivers breaking...very rare. They are cast, while GI versions are forged ..and also, some of the rare ones imported from Taiwan (who bought the or was given, the tooling to make the m14 from Uncle Sam) and by some reports..certain receivers made in PRC. The right sort of those imported receivers can be, and have been, used to build some sweet guns, because they are superior to Springfield civvy versions...

But back on point..I don't think defective receivers are that common a problem.

 

[Ignition Override]

The mass media - and its movies etc -- are where the general public gets its only exposure to guns, the complexities of aviation (total ignorance of books full of procedures), medicine (I learned it on the internet), law enforcement and detective work, etc.

Combine this with internet "exposure" and they feel like they do, or Can understand everything. Never mind the massive omissions and deceptions to block critical thinking about guns...with the word "children", but only if it applies to non-urban areas.

 

[orionengnr]

IIRC, the Mini (14 or 30) was never included on the AWB list.

Not that they would ever repeat that mistake, but if they did...I'd make sure to own at least one of the above.

I think the SKS would fall into the same category, although I owned one briefly and couldn't wait to be rid of it. JME

 

[Coyote3855]

My Tula SKS and Marlin 1894 in .44 Magnum would do it for me.

 

[Bazoo]

I sure regret selling my sks. Not for tactical reason, but it was just a fun gun to shoot. Mine was pretty accurate, though I don't recall now how accurate. I liked the balance and style. And it was 100% reliable over about 4k rounds I fired through it. It was my first centerfire rifle. Dumb me traded it off, then got it back, then dumb dumb dumb me traded it again.

 

[jrmiddleton425]

I'd like to take a crack at answering this, as someone who has had both an AR and AK, and now has neither, because they simply aren't my thing.

In scenario "A" where ARs and AKs don't exist, my go-to rifle will be an M1917 in .30-06. My backup to that is a Winchester .30-30. I currently have both of these. I also have a 20-LT Remington 1100.

I'd like to throw a tantrum and say you can't make me replace my CZ pistols, but that's not in the spirit of this thread.

In scenario "B" where magazine-fed semi-autos don't exist, I will replace my SP-01 with a Hamilton Bowen customized Ruger Redhawk in .44 Mag. I'm not familiar enough with their catalog to say exactly what I would want done.

I also have an S&W 27-2, of course in .357 Magnum.

 

[benEzra]

IIRC, the Mini (14 or 30) was never included on the AWB list.

Not that they would ever repeat that mistake, but if they did...I'd make sure to own at least one of the above.

I think the SKS would fall into the same category, although I owned one briefly and couldn't wait to be rid of it.

The mini-14 in fixed-stock configuration wasn’t banned by the original 1994 AWB, but was banned by name in the follow-on AWB that was defeated in 2004 (S.1431/H.R.2038), even in its wooden-stocked, 5-round magazine configuration. Those bills would have also banned the M1 carbine, and any semiauto detachable-magazine long gun with a thumbhole, pistol-grip, or radical-Monte-Carlo stock. Some later bills went even further than that, but didn’t go anywhere.

 

[d2wing]

CZ bolt action 22 LR. And a .357 revolver. My ideas are different than yours.

 

[tactikel]

SA M1A, FN FAL, M1 Carbine, oh, and a 1927 Thompson.

 

[Choctaw]

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[Choctaw]

It's true they want them all. I think instead of a ban, I have always thought they would add assault rifles to the nfa. Basically make them registered with the registry closed likely.

You do understand the difference in semi-automatic firearms and assault weapons, correct?

 

[Bazoo]

You do understand the difference in semi-automatic firearms and assault weapons, correct?

. Of course. But the term assault weapons is used as merely an easy description of military style semiautomatic rifles.

I have a friend that says the ar15 and the m16 are completely different designs. He wont accept the fact that an AR15 is a slightly altered version to be semiautomatic only, and not "easily" converted to select fire.

 

[jrmiddleton425]

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I have a friend that says the ar15 and the m16 are completely different designs. He wont accept the fact that an AR15 is a slightly altered version to be semiautomatic only, and not "easily" converted to select fire.

That said, it would probably blow your friend's mind, to find "AR-15" engraved on the receivers of late 1980s to mid-1990s Colt manufacture M16A2 rifles.