http://www.2acheck.c...-list-of-antis/ first off do a re-read of the anti gun companies published by NRA and make sure they don't get one cent.
Secondly when I was with the Army Small Cal Lab at Picatinny Arsenal one of the guys in our section had a saying: " Putting lots of rounds in the air is considered Fire Power-- The definition of firepower is more misses per minute.
Third I am definitely NOT APPROVED.
A guy on another forum had a interesting take on voting in which he said, "I always vote for non approved candidates unless there is a reason not to and I never vote for approved candidates unless there is a reason to do so.
To listen to the anti bump stock crowd, having a bump stock raises your skill level to Sniper 1st Class.
I was detailed to conduct a Hit Probability Study on five full auto shoulder fired weapons when I was at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center management wanted. I had already tried to explain that such would be a waste of ammo but I set up the test.
1. built a 8 ft square frame faced with plywood.
2. covered face with news print (got end rolls of it from local newspaper)
3. fired only three shot bursts and this was controlled by only loading three rounds in mag at a time.
4. The original Test Plan was to conduct standing testing from 25, 50 and 100 yards. with the first shot to be aimed dead center of mass on a Transtar Silhouette target. The target was placed at ground level to make sure shots off the target paper were recorded. Both left and right hand shooters were utilized.
5. Each shooter shot ten 3 shot bursts and we photographed the targets after each string.
Basically all candidates delivered the same results= in a word POOR
From 25 yards the first shot was dead center, the second shot just caught the silhouette or just missed it at the edge of the shoulder. Left hand shooters shot strings went up and left, right hand shooters went up and right. The third shots from all candidates was about 24 to 36 inches above the second shot. The aiming target was replaced and masking tape put over holes that completely missed the aiming target.
When that series was completed we moved back to 50 yards. Again first shot was center, the second shots completely missed the silhouette target and a number of the third shots completely missed the 8X8 board ! ! !
Basically we had a saying at the Army Small Cal Lab that misses are moon shots.
The 100 yard series was canceled.
I got detailed to go to Miami and evaluate a 9MM SMG they had got hold of that this guy had persuaded management was a fantastically accurate MG. I went down and this guy showed me this "marvel" and I said lets go to the range and we went.
We set up a Transtar Target at 25 yards and I told the portrayer that he was going to do the complete test and I would watch.
First off we loaded up a 30 round mag and I told him to fire the entire magazine in the method he deemed most appropriate for a shooting situation as fast as he could. Thus he could shoot anything from a short burst to a 30 shot burst, his option. He was a bit sharper than what I had evaluated him as being and he used short bursts.
When the first shot was fired I started a stop watch and when bolt remained to the rear I stopped the watch. I showed him the elapsed time. We went down and removed the target and laid it on the ground and put up another and we went back and I told him to place the selector on semi auto and shoot 30 rounds as fast as he could and to stop when I put my hand on his shoulder which was the same number of seconds he utilized on the first mag.
On the first string he had like six hits in the silhouette and the second string he had like 16 hits with a much smaller group. He still had 14 rounds in the mag thus he had twice the time to empty the mag in a real shooting and be effective about twice as long.
I took the target off and laid it on the ground next to the first target to photograph them and I said to him, "Now explain to me how full auto is more effective than semi-auto." After a few seconds he said,
"Well full auto is more fun."
When I was asked by the Army Materials Systems Analysis Activity to conduct the accuracy/dispersion validation on the AK-74 I got to be good friends with their analyst and was invited to his home several times for dinner which was only a few as I transferred to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center about three months after the AK-74 test and was on a house hunting trip in February. He told me he had supervised lots of hit probability studies in his career and he stated,
"if you ever see a test result that says full auto is more effective then semi auto it was a rigged test."
To hear these anti bump stock folks just having a bump stock will increase the hit probability which I am not buying.
I don't have one, don't want one, don't know anyone that has one but I would sure like to do a Hit Probability Study (described above) with one and the only reason I see for outlawing them is so the politicians can say they "felt our pain" and "had to do something" to get the press off them.
By my read the bump stock was correctly classified by the ATF years ago. If applying external influence to a semi auto makes it a machinegun then they are going to have to pass laws requiring amputation of thumbs, forefingers, sticks, belt loops and one guy says he can get his to run with a rubber band I would like to see.
There are only six competition shooters on the board if my info is correct. I was in a wreck in 2013, wound up with C5, 6 and 7 fused in my neck. I know four other shooters that had the same surgery and could not come back and it doesn't look like I will be able to either. That is why I have only four words in my bio about shooting "Double Distinguished and Presidents 100".
To my knowledge only one other board member has testified before Congress , Ollie North thus I would make the second and I was asked to testify by Chairman J J Pickle after working with his investigators for two years on the public corruption issues I found including violations of the 68 Gun Control Act by Federal Agents.
