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What's a BAR? In any event, link a diagram and I'll let you know Isaac Send a noteboard - 22/12/2012 01:26:31 AM
If you're talking about a Browning M1918, the only BAR that comes to mind, there is a reason I said 'virtually all' and pre-WWII attempts at semi or auto were pretty craptacular at best.

As I try to explain to people from time to time, a semi-automatic is an improvement on a fully automatic weapon. Semi = better than = Full Auto

Not that I had looked until about an hour ago, but what I have found so far says it is impossible. Not saying you are wrong; you know the specs far better than I,


If you've seen the specs on whatever the hell it is you know them better than I, I've memorized most US/NATO stuff and the real popular ones, but there are thousands and thousands of variations. Some would be impossible, or at least practically impossible, to modify. For most, it's literally something you could do with a file in ten minutes. But the principles are more or less the same between guns, it still varies between guns.


but there seems to be a world of difference between military-to-civilian conversions and exclusively, originally, civilian designs. Be careful, now; I am sure the last thing you want to do is lend credence to the anti-gun lobbys claims ALL semi-automatics can be made fully automatic after a couple minutes filing down the firing pin. ;)


Big civilian differences tend to be barrel twist and powder, and of course ammo type. Also the lobbyist don't interest me, anymore than their old ass-hattery about the importance of hunting. They can suck my $%#@, truth is truth. No, not all can be converted that easy of course, and some not all, but its all about the specific design.
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When guns are a big national issue, how do reporters & pundits not know facts about them? - 21/12/2012 05:33:14 PM 1639 Views
You don't hunt by walking into a classroom and shooting 20 deer - 21/12/2012 05:56:16 PM 1063 Views
You're actually not right on that one - 21/12/2012 07:49:53 PM 996 Views
That wasn't the point I was making - 21/12/2012 09:49:40 PM 933 Views
You should probably clarify it then - 21/12/2012 10:47:26 PM 1092 Views
His post was perfectly clear. Yours seemed like a response to an entirely different post. - 21/12/2012 10:53:39 PM 1254 Views
Explain that remark, it is not obvious to me *NM* - 21/12/2012 11:00:10 PM 559 Views
I think - 21/12/2012 11:13:34 PM 927 Views
Thats' easy, there is simply no such thing as a 'hunting rifle' - 21/12/2012 11:17:41 PM 932 Views
I'd say the expert gunsmith - 21/12/2012 11:28:02 PM 993 Views
I thought I was being perfectly clear. - 21/12/2012 10:57:35 PM 954 Views
Re: I thought I was being perfectly clear. - 21/12/2012 11:25:04 PM 1001 Views
Oh I wasn't commenting on the standard of people here - 21/12/2012 11:29:36 PM 925 Views
you're largely correct, which is why we need stronger laws on ownership not guns per se - 21/12/2012 09:39:14 PM 909 Views
I can't think of a better reason than self defense - 21/12/2012 10:33:26 PM 976 Views
He is right about Australia - 21/12/2012 10:46:27 PM 940 Views
No kidding - 21/12/2012 10:59:28 PM 928 Views
If you knew all that - 21/12/2012 11:02:38 PM 976 Views
I think you are on the right track, but to the wrong destination; "lethal weapon" is redundant. - 21/12/2012 11:05:29 PM 932 Views
My read is that the 2nd Amendment not only allows, but mandates, cop-killer bullets. - 22/12/2012 12:45:04 AM 987 Views
Does the Second Amendment protect the rights of felons and the mentally incompetent to have guns? - 22/12/2012 02:35:16 AM 1159 Views
Some semi-autos are easily modified for full auto fire, making the distinction one w/o a difference. - 21/12/2012 10:53:59 PM 1018 Views
Correction: virtually all semi-automatics are easily convertable - 21/12/2012 11:23:35 PM 954 Views
How many of the people I was complaining about would know that? - 22/12/2012 12:48:59 AM 940 Views
Some, possibly? I am ever the optimist - 22/12/2012 12:58:36 AM 915 Views
I have seen nothing on turning a semi-auto BAR into a fully automatic one. - 22/12/2012 01:11:12 AM 870 Views
What's a BAR? In any event, link a diagram and I'll let you know - 22/12/2012 01:26:31 AM 867 Views
Confusingly, there are two: The BAR you and I think of, and the "Browning BAR," a current semi-auto - 22/12/2012 01:07:30 PM 1009 Views
Department of Redundancy Department gets to name a lot of stuff, like "Milky Way Galaxy" - 22/12/2012 05:01:45 PM 1146 Views
It only bothers me when people who know better speak of "the Glieseian solar system." - 26/12/2012 05:33:34 PM 1028 Views
Both terms are pretty stuck now - 26/12/2012 10:48:38 PM 1090 Views
You realize that encourages rather than discourages my opposition to the usage, right? - 27/12/2012 01:23:15 AM 853 Views
Well I can't say it surprises - 27/12/2012 04:29:06 AM 826 Views
No one expects the Online Inquisition! - 27/12/2012 05:20:44 PM 840 Views
I've enjoyed most reboots - 28/12/2012 01:06:05 AM 768 Views
Yes the media is using terms incorrectly but the point still stands. - 22/12/2012 03:02:18 AM 865 Views
Re: Yes the media is using terms incorrectly but the point still stands. - 22/12/2012 04:12:30 AM 929 Views
umm... - 22/12/2012 12:41:31 PM 831 Views
1997 North Hollywood Shootout - 22/12/2012 04:07:39 AM 1015 Views
Laws against murder failed to prevent that, too; clearly they are ineffective and should be repealed - 22/12/2012 06:02:24 AM 1061 Views
Such laws were never intended for prevention, they define actions that will be punished. *NM* - 23/12/2012 12:57:57 PM 595 Views
So do laws against getting a gun without screening, training and certification. - 23/12/2012 02:01:32 PM 884 Views
Then CHANGE the Constitution, don't ignore it. *NM* - 26/12/2012 03:12:11 PM 513 Views
I am not suggesting either changing or ignoring the Constitution. - 26/12/2012 04:01:02 PM 993 Views
Yes you are. - 26/12/2012 08:06:01 PM 805 Views
Learn logic, and stop needlessly trying to teach me grammar. - 26/12/2012 08:55:25 PM 959 Views
Lear to read, and I won't have to - 27/12/2012 04:28:59 PM 1006 Views
You are wrong. - 22/12/2012 12:14:40 PM 963 Views
That explains much; I read somewhere Brits are averse to it. - 22/12/2012 01:17:15 PM 903 Views
We're also averse to being wrong. - 22/12/2012 02:53:49 PM 965 Views
So you say... - 22/12/2012 03:32:16 PM 884 Views
guns r stpid *NM* - 23/12/2012 12:39:30 AM 614 Views
What bemuses me about this thing with Adam Lanza, is that his mother had 5 registered guns - 23/12/2012 07:10:26 AM 963 Views
She was asleep with him in the house. - 23/12/2012 02:24:47 PM 976 Views
LOOK, look, there is another one... - 26/12/2012 03:13:45 PM 895 Views
I find the absolutist ant/pro-gun positions equally dangerous and absurd. - 26/12/2012 04:20:37 PM 893 Views
So we should just *kinda* ignore the Constitution *this* time... But what about NEXT time... - 26/12/2012 08:08:12 PM 866 Views
No, we should enact gun regulation the Constitution explicitly empowers. - 26/12/2012 09:02:12 PM 874 Views
Which would be... NONE. *NM* - 27/12/2012 04:31:53 PM 555 Views
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state...." - 28/12/2012 05:14:49 PM 869 Views
*see previous grammar lesson* *NM* - 28/12/2012 10:31:43 PM 518 Views
The instant it becomes relevant, I shall. - 28/12/2012 11:45:01 PM 1072 Views
Your point being? - 27/12/2012 10:47:29 AM 856 Views
Facts are irrelevant when FUD is the order of the day. - 24/12/2012 04:34:18 PM 865 Views
It irritates me too. *NM* - 01/01/2013 01:55:05 PM 536 Views

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