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Would not let him touch it
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Competently, professionally, returning a functional product? Too many believe these guns are legos. Their work shows it.
On the above, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "armorer" often an assigned extra duty or detail, and not a specific, trained skill set? I know of mil "armorers" in a different branch of service I would not allow to clean my gun, much less perform any measure of maintenance or assembly.
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Not so much in the Marine Corps, a Small Arms Weapons Repairman/armorer is a specific MOS (2111) and they can do all the basic swaps of part on current weapon system with the exception of precision weapons. Than you have Precision Weapons Repairman/Armor (MOS 2112) who are full on gunsmiths.
In the Marine Corps the people who you are referring to are Armory Custodians and they are not called armorers.
Last edited by R0N; 09-13-13 at 19:14.
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This same question could be targeted at a civilian gunsmith as well. Just cause they have the certs doesn't mean they have good work. This goes for any trade or skill, military or otherwise. Either look at his work, if there is any aside from issued weapons, or lock him into a conversation regarding the extent of his knowledge/passion for the job and use your best judgement.
If it were me I'd get the tools required, do the research, and do the work myself. Learn your weapon, become more proficient.
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I taught my armorer many things...things he should have known.
If you haven't seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, get it and fast forward to the scene where they give the keys to the Ferrari to a garage attendant...
...who promptly tear out of the garage with it and go all Dukes of Hazzard on the streets of Chicago.
Putting aside whether or not he's capable, that's the baseline for leaving personal weapons with a unit armorer across the Corps; it's certainly not the same everywhere, just very common. Plus, you're not a customer, and you have virtually no means of redress if your gun ends up upgefuched.
If your local conditions are different than that...i.e., he's done right by others whom you can directly verify via independent references (people that don't have a personal/professional stake in keeping the armorer happy with them)..., then have at it. I've known both those that I trust implicitly, and those that I wouldn't trust with my @#$% toothbrush, much less a personally-owned gun.
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2111 no.
2112 yes
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