
Originally Posted by
Suwannee Tim
A little approximate calculation if you will permit me: the probability of a law abiding citizen getting into a gunfight, 1/1,000, the probability he will have or be able to get his AR before the fight is over, 1/10, the probability his Colt will fail, costing him his life, 1/10,000 and the probability his Bushie will fail costing him his life, 1/1000. So the probability your Colt will fail and cost you your life, 1/10,000,000 or 0.0000001, the probability your Bushie will fail you and cost you your life, 1/1,000,000 or 0.000001. I do not worry much about such low probability events.
Now consider the commonly given advice, "buy a Colt and shoot the heck out of it." I submit a Colt with 5,000 rounds down the pipe is less reliable than the Bushie with 500 rounds given that there are no grave flaws in the Bushie and the grave flaws seem to be unusual and in the distant past, at least in my limited experience.
I expect many years pass and no law abiding civilian and no police officer looses his life because his AR failed him. There is not a day that goes by that a civillian does not loose his life to tire failure nor a week that goes by that a cop does not loose his life to tire failure. This is the kind of thing I worry about.
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