The Lowly SKS

[Tegyrius]

The other reasoning I've seen - take it for what it's worth - is that the ban came down because a bunch of Joes couldn't distinguish between Magpul polymer magazines (GTG) and, say, Tapco polymer magazines (crap). The intent, therefore, was to keep all polymer mags out of theatre so people wouldn't be using sub-standard/unreliable gear in combat.

Hadn't heard about the lawsuit, but now that it's been brought up, I find general officer spite an equally plausible explanation.

- C.

[HorseSoldier]

Yeah, there are, sadly, always those guys -- they also are the ones who think a $100 NcStar ACOG knock off they found on eBay is a great deal and want to replace their issue AimPoint with it.

They run the most amok in units where the leadership has poor backgrounds with firearms stuff, and the easiest remedy is to just ban it if it isn't USGI. In my last unit our senior E-8 had some SOF time on his resume and reserved the right of review on anything anyone wanted to put on their weapon, so things like quality aftermarket optics and PMags were good to go. The guy who wanted to slap an eight power Chinese Leupold knock off he bought in the bazaar on his M4 and pretend he was a sniper . . . not so much.

Hadn't heard about the lawsuit, but now that it's been brought up, I find general officer spite an equally plausible explanation.

Word on the street and such is that the improved "in house" Army follower design is just the Magpul design with the bullet guide swapped to the other side of the follower. I can only assume it was dreamed up by an alumni of the same clown college as the guys who invented the godforsaken ACU camouflage pattern. Sadly like ArmySGT touched on, all of those oxygen thieves will most likely make general and then segue directly into six figure income consulting or executive jobs with the defense industry and keep right on stealing oxygen and squandering tax payer money.