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[Rob]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Andrew Weiss wrote:
> >
> > And can't you just drill it in a certain spot to fix the problem?
>
> Mostly the civilian versions come without a selector switch.  It's easy
> enough to modify, but usually totally illegal.
>
> >
> > > Is it hard to get where you are?  I can walk up the street and buy a
> > > civilian version of an M16 (if I had about $1400) and ammunition
> > > tommorow.  The ammunition, AFAIK, is the same in military and civilian
> > > versions of the rifle.  The main difference in the civilian version is
> > > that the burst and full-auto selector isn't present.
>
> Let me retract my statement here - the one I wrote on half a cup of
> coffee, apparently.  Military and civialian versions take the same
> *caliber* and *case*.  However, the round is far from the same -
> military weapons are only supposed to fire simple ball munitions - not
> anything with hollow points, pre-fragmented, containing grape, or
> otherwise designed for maximum damage.  AFAIK, this was outlined
> somewhere in the Geneva Accord, but I could be wrong.
>
This was stated at the Hague accords however, the US never ratified it.
Therefore, the US and any country facing them can use such ammunition.
Thusfar the US claims to have complied.

- Rob