I just don't care for pompous statements. I don't care for people suddenly telling me that I owe them for my rights.
Perhaps I misunderstood you.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts...ontractid=3476
contracted by the u.s. army.
FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 304-07
March 19, 2007
Bushmaster Firearms International L.L.C.*, Windham, Maine, was awarded on March 12, 2007, a $5,411,132 firm-fixed-price contract for Bushmaster rifle with 20 inch barrels, Bushmaster carbine with 11.5 inch barrel, M16A3 spare 30 round magazines, Bushmaster rifle contractor support package, Bushmaster carbine crates for 11.5 carbines, crates for M16A3 spares, and crates for Bushmaster rifles. Work will be performed in Windham, Maine, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 20, 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This was a sole source contract initiated on Feb. 11, 2005. The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52H09-07-C-0086).
One of you guys should tell DOD!
Old news........this was already posted on this web site once. So please no more baby-mama drama. Search is your friend.
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...aster+contract
If I'm not mistaken, that is the same command that contracts the foreign military sales items for U.S. embassy FMS offices worldwide. If that is the case, they could be buying those guns for anybody worldwide. It doesn't mean the DOD is getting them, it would mean that somewhere a foreign military asked for them.
The owner of my company is there for ALL gunowners, both you and I. No one owes him or us anything for it, virtually all of our employees are gunowners themselves including Mark. Nowhere in my post did i say that we were owed anything. I was just trying to explain why i had not been able to post here in the last week.
Im glad you guys are stepping up to help in the RKBA battle that we all face in the very near future.
Here at ArmaLite we do what we can in the battle for the RKBA. Its funny that in the above post it mentions Rock Island Armaments command concerning Bushmaster. The owner and President of Armalite was a high ranking officer there during his military career.
I have come to find out that there are a few things in the chart for ArmaLite Rifles that are not marked.
I will be going through the ArmaLite's armorer course soon and I will see if I can get some pictures of these things and post them here.
At the end of the course were supposed to have a tour of the plant, I was told I wouldn't be able to take pictures of that though.
So pictures coming soon.
Pat
The OP asked me to post these pictures, it's my Armalite, made in June of 2005. Yes I should have cleaned her up before pictures but I'm in the middle of seeing how far she will go until she cough's, so all it got was a quick wipe down. Oh the bottom picture is a CMT on my 6.8, not impressed with its dimples on the key.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...7/P9150062.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...7/P9150063.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...7/P9150064.jpg
Here are some things that I found during my class that wern't marked on the chart and thought should be.
Pictures from ArmaLite...
http://www.hunt101.com/img/517435.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/517436.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/517437.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/517438.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/517439.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/517440.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/517441.JPG
This is all I have for now... I need to go in and try to manualy resize some of these to upload.
Pat :)
From the looks of the staking of the gas key in the pictures there is no metal moved into the screws and makes it only cosmetic.
So it appears from your photos that Armalite:
(1) doesn't do a good job of staking the key
(2) tracks bolts by lot numbers (TOS reports that Armalite performms HPT against samples within lots, but not against every bolt)
(3) machines M4 ramps pre-anodizing
(4) stakes the receiver extensions
(5) parkerizes underneath the FSB
(6) includes an o-ring with their extractor (but I can't tell if the sping used is a HD model or not, and if teh insert is blue or black)