I had the stupidest firearms discussion today with a relative.
So I am on the phone talking to this relative today and he asks what guns I got for Christmas and I told him, he asked if I was getting one for Birthday in February and I told him yea, the wife might go in half with me to buy an AR. First a little background. This certain relative is a BIG BS'r. He spent a year in Vietnam 71-72 in Pleiku. Thats all he talks about, from the moment you meet him until he goes away. While in Vietnam he says he was LRRP. Like a friend of mine says, In VN everyone was a LRRP, there were no cooks, mechanics, supply or anything else, just infantry. So anyway, he was a LRRP and went on missions almost every day. One time to prove how good he was with the M60 MG he stood up with the belt over his shoulder and took out targets several hundred yards away shooting from his side, he is also one of the guys who walked around with a chain of "**** Ears" around his neck and one time he went to a bar in downtown Pleiku and when he went inside there were two NVA officers inside drinking at the bar, he sat down and so as not to worry them smoked some weed with them then went outside, waved down a passing jeep, got on the radio and called in artillery on the bar, leveling it and killing everyone inside. These are the kinds of stories he tells. I have seen his records, he was in Pleiku, as a WELDER in a Battalion Maintenance section, I believe it was 1-6 infantry. And he was Courts Martialed and given an undesirable discharge after fist fighting with his First Sergeant in Florida. Anyway, those are the kinds of stories he tells and he has hundreds. But today he made a statement that was a doozie. When I said I was probably going to get an AR for Birthday he asked if it was going to be a Colt. I told him probably not because they are too expensive for me. He says if it aint a Colt it is not an AR-15. I explained that a lot of companies make many different versions of AR's and you can also put one together yourself by buying parts from different manufacturers. He said, only two companies ever made an AR-15 and I carried both in Vietnam. First I explained that actually he carried an M-16, that Armalite designed the AR-15 and sold the patents to Colt who designated the selective fire version the M-16, which sold to the military and the AR-15 designation was left for the Semi-Auto versions. (Is my best understanding). Now here is the doozie I was talking about. He said "No, Colt designed and built the AR-15 for the Army then sold the rights to Mattel". I quickly informed him that Mattel is a toy company and never made a firearm. And that Colt is still making M-16's and M-4's for the military. His responce was "I know damn right well Mattell made the AR-15 because I carried one in Vietnam". I would have liked to have seen the "AR"
So I am on the phone talking to this relative today and he asks what guns I got for Christmas and I told him, he asked if I was getting one for Birthday in February and I told him yea, the wife might go in half with me to buy an AR. First a little background. This certain relative is a BIG BS'r. He spent a year in Vietnam 71-72 in Pleiku. Thats all he talks about, from the moment you meet him until he goes away. While in Vietnam he says he was LRRP. Like a friend of mine says, In VN everyone was a LRRP, there were no cooks, mechanics, supply or anything else, just infantry. So anyway, he was a LRRP and went on missions almost every day. One time to prove how good he was with the M60 MG he stood up with the belt over his shoulder and took out targets several hundred yards away shooting from his side, he is also one of the guys who walked around with a chain of "**** Ears" around his neck and one time he went to a bar in downtown Pleiku and when he went inside there were two NVA officers inside drinking at the bar, he sat down and so as not to worry them smoked some weed with them then went outside, waved down a passing jeep, got on the radio and called in artillery on the bar, leveling it and killing everyone inside. These are the kinds of stories he tells. I have seen his records, he was in Pleiku, as a WELDER in a Battalion Maintenance section, I believe it was 1-6 infantry. And he was Courts Martialed and given an undesirable discharge after fist fighting with his First Sergeant in Florida. Anyway, those are the kinds of stories he tells and he has hundreds. But today he made a statement that was a doozie. When I said I was probably going to get an AR for Birthday he asked if it was going to be a Colt. I told him probably not because they are too expensive for me. He says if it aint a Colt it is not an AR-15. I explained that a lot of companies make many different versions of AR's and you can also put one together yourself by buying parts from different manufacturers. He said, only two companies ever made an AR-15 and I carried both in Vietnam. First I explained that actually he carried an M-16, that Armalite designed the AR-15 and sold the patents to Colt who designated the selective fire version the M-16, which sold to the military and the AR-15 designation was left for the Semi-Auto versions. (Is my best understanding). Now here is the doozie I was talking about. He said "No, Colt designed and built the AR-15 for the Army then sold the rights to Mattel". I quickly informed him that Mattel is a toy company and never made a firearm. And that Colt is still making M-16's and M-4's for the military. His responce was "I know damn right well Mattell made the AR-15 because I carried one in Vietnam". I would have liked to have seen the "AR"
