Originally Posted by
TRIDENT82
I am not trying to nit pick but the overwhelming inaccuracy of your statement in regards to the military only wanting to buy "full or complete package" tended to stand out at least to me....esp. since right above that statement you say you have extensive time on the MK 12's and MK 18's yet anybody who has the least idea about those two rifles understands that the end product is a culmination of numerous different company's kit....Crane is not a Mfg. and when they take lmt 10.5" barrels, run KAC rails and sights, colt bcg's and perhaps a colt lower, and form a MK 18, that is certainly not a complete rifle already built by one single outfit or company. MK 12's run heavy doses of ARMs, PRI tubes/KAC rails and sights, random stocks be it a Sopmod or an A1 or A2, OPs muzzle device, etc....so obviously again, one of the military's rifles is a sourced build using numerous diff. mfg'rs kit.
If either Colt, LMT, FN, or KAC make MK 18's and MK 12's as complete guns using only their kit/parts and thereby own the design and can call it their rifle, then feel free to correct me.