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Thread: Colt M4 Carbine's Future Uncertain: Dark Clouds Forming

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    Quote Originally Posted by defrev View Post
    Thekatar, I hope the above addresses your concerns to some degree, and, in the future, Defense Review will do its best to live up to your obviously very high publishing and quality standards. We certainly appreciate your feedback, and welcome any assistance you can provide in this endeavor.
    You can do whatever you like David - I don't really care. I quit looking at your website a few years back when I got my first inkling of a clue.

    Good luck in your future endeavours.

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    This paragraph (broken out by sentence) is a good example of the problem - 6 sentences, 4 items of rumor (2 in one sentence), 2 of opinion, 1 of fact.

    1) If worse comes to worse for Colt Defense, they've got their own gas piston/op-rod select-fire AR carbine/SBR/subcarbine solution that's supposedly superior to the HK416, according to rumor (i.e. unconfirmed/unverified reports).

    2) It's Defense Review's understanding that Colt's gas-piston-driven system was competed in the 2004 SCAR competition and did quite well (unconfirmed/unverified).

    3) Colt's gas-piston/op-rod-driven SCAR candidate, which we believe was the Colt M5 Gas Piston Carbine (unconfirmed/unverified) was reportedly very reliable (unconfirmed/unverified).

    4) DefRev's seen and handled the Colt LE1020 a.k.a. Colt LE 1020 (at SHOT Show and other shows), which is the semi-automatic (semi-auto) version of the Colt SCAR candidate, and the system looks solid. We've seen the weapon broken down and the individual piston/op-rod components.

    5) The late Mike LaPlante (Michael LaPlante) showed us the gun.

    6) Mike was a nice man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magsz View Post
    I was under the impression that was by design so that you could pop off two rounds instead of three if you have a steady finger.

    Again, bare in mind that i have NO experience with burst triggers or automatic weapons so i probably shouldnt even be opening my mouth here.
    Nothing so subtle. You have to hold the trigger thru entrie burst or you get the remainder the next burst. So two will get you one next time.

    The Colt three round burst is a kludgy, half-assed hardware solution to a software problem that should correctly be addressed thru training.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dano5326 View Post
    "Defense Review" aka David Crane is an ill informed self important tool with delusions about his relevance. Anything spewing from that gutter is of no import.

    Burst trigger groups suck.. different pull each time.
    As if your opinion is relevant, Dano5326. What's your full name? Or are you going to hide behind your screen name?

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    Please stay on topic. If you have a personal issue with someone, take it off line.

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    Renegade, it was an opinion/commentary piece. That was the whole point.

    And, until we confirm something as a fact, we don't report it as fact--but there's nothing wrong with mentioning or discussing a rumor or unverified/unconfirmed report(s), as long as you let the reader know that it's just that (a rumor or unverified/unconfirmed report).

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    Fine Thekatar, but if you're going to take swipes at people or their work, you can at least have the courage to let people know your real name. At least don't be a coward about it.

    I figured I was wasting my time in replying to you. You weren't worth it. You've got an agenda, and that's that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by defrev View Post
    Renegade, it was an opinion/commentary piece. That was the whole point.

    And, until we confirm something as a fact, we don't report it as fact--but there's nothing wrong with mentioning or discussing a rumor or unverified/unconfirmed report(s), as long as you let the reader know that it's just that (a rumor or unverified/unconfirmed report).
    And that is tabloid journalism, just like Thekatar wrote ("My opinion is that your DEFREV site is more of a tactical tabloid than hard news. Some facts in there but a lot of rumor and conjecture."). So we are all in agreement.

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    Renegade,

    We publish plenty of articles about the facts, but there's also room for opinion/commentary. Call it whatever you want, but both have their place and value.

    Understand that even the rumors and unverified/unconfirmed reports that we receive come from knowledgeable and accomplished people in the community/industry, unconfirmed/unverified reports like the Colt LE1020/M5 gas piston system being supposedly superior in design/execution to the HK416 system, for instance. So even if we're reporting something as an unconfirmed report or rumor, it's coming from a knowledgeable professional industry source (or sources).

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    What with the current state of things I can't see a change in the near future. we are som broke a$$ motherF*ckers,we can't keep spending like we have and not expect a large increse in the tax rate. the time is not right to scrap the M16 and adopt a new weapon ,anyone can see that with the doller in the toilet and inflation running rampent this is not a good time to make a change . JMHO ,and time will tell .
    WHO ME ? ---- A government big enough to
    give you everything you want, is
    strong enough to take everything
    you have.
    -- Thomas Jefferson

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