Where it all began...

**m03** · 01-01-12, 03:19

Very nice. My office isn't too far from there.

I have entertained the idea of checking out various addresses of 1980s-era evil-rifle importers in town (IIRC, there were a few in and around LA) to see what they had become since that golden era.

**MASP7** · 01-05-12, 20:07

Originally Posted by yellowfin

You have my curiosity...what else in in the collection?

Index of pics here-

http://www.sturmgewehr.com/bhinton/R...ghtCollection/

**Nmate** · 01-05-12, 23:33

I really like the primordial AR-10s and the AR-16s. Everyone always thinks of the AR-15/M16 when they hear Stoner, but the AR-16/18 was probably his most influential design. The SA80, AUG, G36 and the SCAR use basically the same operating mechanism with some minor changes to the op rod or the action spring set up.

**usmcvet** · 01-06-12, 06:23

Originally Posted by Buck

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Besides SA Colt cap guns one of my first toy guns was a copy of an M16 with the old school CH. You pulled it back and pulled the trigger for full auto sound powered by a spring.

**mkmckinley** · 01-07-12, 07:07

I've always wondered why they went away from that charging handle configuration. It seems like it would be about perfect.

**Nmate** · 01-07-12, 15:05

Originally Posted by usmcvet

Besides SA Colt cap guns one of my first toy guns was a copy of an M16 with the old school CH. You pulled it back and pulled the trigger for full auto sound powered by a spring.

My first toy rifle was an M16A1. The full auto sound was electronic, there was a speaker in the magazine (20rd). It had an actual aperture in the carry handle and a post in the front sight. The trigger pull was crap, way too light. I had my mom zip-tie a paper towel tube under the barrel to act as a grenade launcher.

For a carry handle M16, the original location of the charging handle makes some sense. However, it would obviously be a problem today.

**Eurodriver** · 01-07-12, 15:28

Originally Posted by Buck

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That last pic would really f*** me up if I were at the range.

**yellowfin** · 02-03-12, 20:07

Originally Posted by MASP7

Index of pics here-

http://www.sturmgewehr.com/bhinton/R...ghtCollection/

Holy cow... I've got to move up in the world. I'm showing this to my wife the next time she says I have a lot of guns. I do not have anywhere NEAR enough guns and this is proof.