"I trained on the FN-C1, too. (Never did know why it was taken out of service.)"

$ and mobility and something that some may dispute BUT I will say it anyway. Experts will (at least one that I know of) post to this and say I am full of shit but the guy that told me this was a Golden Bullet RCAF Canuck Airman so... ya know what I'm sayin eh?... a 762 140 (the Russian 762 bullets are a different weight) whizzer (all of which are full metal jacket, of course) wounds as intended and agreed in the RsOE of the Geneva convention (yes, I know why) and so does the 556 55. However, the 556 fires in a FAR different pattern on full auto (or even in 3 burst for that matter) than the 762 even when the optional gas adjustment is turned to full and it does so in a fashion that KILLS because the bullets "tumble" - essentially, on full auto, you have a long range shotgun in your hands which delivers a wide pattern of 55g "shot" which, when not travelling in true "trajectory", can kill a man if it hits him in any majot joint or bone structure... or just about anywhere else. Such a burst is exceptionally effective in theatres in which western forces have been engaged since WW2.

"And that they can defend their castles, in the time-honored macho way (at least in Westerns and similar genres) by blowing away anybody they don't like."

Silly statement.

"So all gun owners, from now on, will have to show up for drill on a regular basis--just as the plan was back then."

Sillier. You miss the whole point of good gun laws and go straight to a position which you can NEVER accomplish, thereby wasting your time and breath. Can't you... any of you who say such silly things... understand that your position will only halt any and all progress that can be made by good gun laws because the guys with the guns HAVE FUCKING GUNS?! and they won't LET you take them away??? Who is gonna take those guns away from them? Not me. And CERTAILY not you. Wake the fuck up and start talking some common sense.

Oh... yeah... shit... I said I wouldn't say that again on any more gun threads on the last gun thread. WTF was I thinking? Common sense? Thing of the past... apparently.