
Originally Posted by
rob_s
My day job is construction, and we are not simply selected as "low bidder", we're the lowest bidder that can comply with the drawings and specs. and just like in the gun world, we get a lot of contractors that can't even meet the base spec.
In fact, the Chart isn't a list of the military spec, it's a list of desirable features with a pretty lengthy explanation of why they are desirable.
How do we know Bushmaster, Olympic, DPMS, and the like don't meet the spec? Because if you know the right questions to ask they'll TELL YOU that they don't!
What most uneducated buyers do is call up the manufacturer of the gun they've already settle on buying (or too often, already bought), and ask "do you make a milspec AR?" To which, of course, the manufacturer (or whatever $5/hour nitwit that answered the phone that day) says "yes we do!" The problem is that they asked the wrong question. What they should have asked was "do high pressure test and magnetically particle inspect every single bolt that is sold with your rifles?", or "Does your barrel steel meet MIL-B-1195-E?" If you ask the right questions, they'll tell you point blank that they don't meet a specific spec you're asking about. Or as you yourself pointed out just pick one up and see if they have bothered to stake the receiver endplate or the carrier key at all.
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