Vintage M16A1 in use by a local LEO agency... tricked out

**2Sharp** · 10-18-13, 08:51

Awesome rifle, just awesome

Thanks for sharing!

**Bandanabandit1** · 10-22-13, 22:55

Originally Posted by T2C

We had a few hundred Department of the Army M-14's. The bean counters did not like the fact that .308 was more expensive than .223 ammunition, so they were put in mothballs.

Unfortunately, the rifles were transferred to another agency a few years ago.

A few hundred?

**T2C** · 10-23-13, 14:46

Originally Posted by Bandanabandit1

A few hundred?

Yes. Several that I inspected were in outstanding condition. I fired two of them and they were really accurate rifles.

**CoryCop25** · 10-23-13, 14:55

Originally Posted by T2C

Yes. Several that I inspected were in outstanding condition. I fired two of them and they were really accurate rifles.

We got 3 of them and they were never fired.

**nhskull21** · 10-31-13, 18:59

Originally Posted by Voodoo_Man

We have them on the streets right now.

The armory refitted them without auto ability.

Same with out local sheriff dept. Got them all free for the guys that didnt want to buy/ couldnt afford their own ars.

**henschman** · 11-05-13, 14:14

Co-witnessed Aimpoint, offset mount light, and side mount sling... that is a solid setup. Definitely making the most of it. A friend asked my advice on the ideal setup for his old fixed carry handle A2 style rifle, assuming he didn't want to trade out his upper for a flat top, and those are the exact mods I recommended.

That said, I would much rather see all these old rifles going to the CMP for sale to citizens, minus the lower, as parts kits.

**masakari** · 11-05-13, 20:51

Originally Posted by henschman

Co-witnessed Aimpoint, offset mount light, and side mount sling... that is a solid setup. Definitely making the most of it. A friend asked my advice on the ideal setup for his old fixed carry handle A2 style rifle, assuming he didn't want to trade out his upper for a flat top, and those are the exact mods I recommended.

That said, I would much rather see all these old rifles going to the CMP for sale to citizens, minus the lower, as parts kits.

Unfortunately, the aimpoint didn't cowitness, but it wouldn't be hard to change that.
I too would like to see them sold as parts kits through the CMP. hell, they could even mod the lower to comply. But this government won't consider that, no way.
The guy who uses the rifle for duty has it in his head that he is going to buy it from the dep't when he retires, but that lower isn't going anywhere.

**henschman** · 11-06-13, 10:13

If you take that spacer out of the Aimpoint mount, it would probably co-witness. Yeah, no way in hell he's taking that thing home with him... no way it is in the Class 3 registry. For the same reason, they couldn't just mod the receivers to sell them into the private sector (unfortunately). Once a MG, always a MG according to the ATF.