Originally Posted by
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While I can agree that Euro’s post is unscientific, I also believe it has merit. I’ve taken M4’s and M16’s swimming on more than one occasion, and trekked in rainy, humid swamps and forests with them for days (weeks even) on end more than once, as well. Returning to garrison, I usually found a bit of orange on the barrel under the handguards, no matter how much CLP I slathered on before use.
But I have not ever noted any rust in the coil springs, such as the selector detent spring. Or any other spring, for that matter.
I did, however deadline a RRA LPK on a personally owned gun in pretty short order due to rust.
Has the .mil changed that much post 9/11? We weren't allowed to take them down far enough to see any of the coiled springs.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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