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Member Section => Tactical Rifle & Carbine => Topic started by: ratcatcher55 on October 15, 2010, 05:47:13 PM

Title: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: ratcatcher55 on October 15, 2010, 05:47:13 PM
http://gunnuts.net/2010/10/15/bushmaster-recalls-the-acr/

Well that didn't take long.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: kilopaparomeo on October 15, 2010, 06:29:18 PM
Full auto?  Sounds like a feature, not a bug... ;D

Until the po-po comes calling
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: BAC on October 15, 2010, 06:49:33 PM
Wonder if Bushmaster'll send a hat back with it.  'Cause that makes everything alllll better.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: fightingquaker13 on October 15, 2010, 07:26:56 PM
Wonder if Bushmaster'll send a hat back with it.  'Cause that makes everything alllll better.
How about just two of their normal AR's instead? ;D
FQ13 sorry Kilo, couldn't help it ;)
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: Rastus on October 16, 2010, 09:36:14 AM
Full auto?  Sounds like a feature, not a bug... ;D
........

FN's FS 2000's with June and July 2006 dates on the box did that too. 
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: ratcatcher55 on October 16, 2010, 10:14:23 AM
Full auto?  Sounds like a feature, not a bug... ;D

Until the po-po comes calling

My M&P 15 decided to double and triple fire in the middle of a run and gun rifle stage at our local club. Folks were coming up and telling me how quickly I was engaging targets.

The  pin holding the trigger assembly worked loose  and when things got out of square the gun would continue to fire if you just caught the link. Fixed it about 10 seconds.

Not fun when it happens by accident.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: GASPASSERDELUXE on October 16, 2010, 10:28:18 AM
I would apply a juduious amount of super glue to hold that sucker in place. then call S&W about a fix before  the wrong people (were here to help) find out about it.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: ratcatcher55 on October 16, 2010, 11:11:52 AM
I would apply a juduious amount of super glue to hold that sucker in place. then call S&W about a fix before  the wrong people (were here to help) find out about it.

The pin needs to come out if you want to clean the trigger assembly. But your point is valid now that we live in the nanny state.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: bafsu92 on October 16, 2010, 04:40:16 PM
The pin needs to come out if you want to clean the trigger assembly. But your point is valid now that we live in the nanny state.

Either the pin or the hole (or both) are probably out of spec. I'd send it back to S&W or invest in some KNS anti-walk pins or buy oversized pins and fit them.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: twyacht on October 16, 2010, 07:12:25 PM
A good friends HBAR was damaged in a house fire, all but the lower had to be replaced,; long and short, it was sent to a smith for complete rebuild. The range test was quite exciting as it went into "burst" mode.

Nice at a private range, but wanted to go "full" auto as it heated up. ......

It went back to the smith to "cool" the thing off and keep it civilian.

As KPR posted,...our nanny state makes us go through hoops for rifles with a "happy switch", but if we buy one that does it on its own, .....time to send it back. :-\

Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: m25operator on October 16, 2010, 08:25:48 PM
This is actually quite timely, last week friend called, he and friend went to range to shoot friends acr, it multifired with handloads but not factory, so as soon as I read this I forwarded it to him, ATFE has successfully prosecuted for FA, by using loads with the softest primers available in AR's, A floating firing pin with no block and a worn return spring, can set off a round, hard to do, but can happen. No body should go to jail for it, but have, even if I was an FA junkie, I would want to count on it instead of it being maybe, maybe not.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: TAB on October 16, 2010, 08:30:34 PM
To be fair, the guy that did that too was not exactly on the up and up.
Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: Badgersmilk on October 17, 2010, 02:26:22 AM
I'd send it back.  Slam firing =  A youtube "kaboom" video before to long.   :(

Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: r_w on October 17, 2010, 02:12:59 PM
To be fair, the guy that did that too was not exactly on the up and up.

That doesn't matter.  Or at least shouldn't. 

Title: Re: Bushmaster recalls ACR
Post by: TAB on October 17, 2010, 07:25:41 PM
That doesn't matter.  Or at least shouldn't. 




should and do are two diffrent things, you know that.