Contus Marauder Equipment

[LT. Ox]

I can only give you my experience here in Colorado as a Law enforcement Officer on the west side of the
Rockies. I owned an M-1 Garand, Ruger mini-14 ( modified with a folding stock, four power scope and shortened two inches for Swat) an ’06 four grove 30-06 ( sporterized and scoped) Remington .308 semi auto also scoped, Browning .22 semi auto and another bold action .22
Four different twelve gauge shotguns, one was a Browning semi auto with short barrel (18”) that I carried in the Army another a model 870 for the Sheriffs vehicle. Two sixteen gauge shotguns and a twenty gauge side by.
I had No less then four had guns at any one time and as many as twelve. Mostly carried a Model 19 Smith and Wesson four “. But also carried 1911 Officers model .45 and a Commander of the same caliber, near the end of my time I started carrying a Smith .40.
In our area we had, legally registered, two M-2 .50 ca. l MG one .30 cal. Several (by that I mean over a dozen) various other auto weapons. I was made privy to the information by the FBI and ATF.
It was also believed that at least twice that number was cached here by one group or another.
I confiscated at least a dozen auto weapons between 1978 and 1986 from drug related actions. These were mac and Uzi for the most part but one was an M-2 .30 carbine. I also removed from the street more than a dozen altered (shortened) shotguns.
While working undercover in Colorado springs with a group of Cuban dealers I observed a cache of at least twenty four Macs these were purported to me as being able to rock and roll they also had either actual or non-working suppressors. They were never found when we shut the group down three months later.
That covers some of what I saw here in the years 1978 to 1990. Rumors of much more persisted and still do as a matter of fact.

[mpipes]

Ox,

Any history on the M2?

There quite a few registered or made from registered conversion kits. Quite a few came back from Korea or Nam and registered in the '68 amnesty.

The M1 itself is very easy to convert to full auto. Simply filing down the sear will do it.

As for large calibers in the hands of marauders, those types are primarily looking at short range firepower. Most hunting weapons in large caliber will have low magazine capacity and are bolt action; not that good for a criminal type looking to rip off a small town or isolated farm. To be sure, they'ld be around in such a group but in limited numbers. As for Garands, M1A1s, G-3s, and FAL, that's a big gun that won't be that useful for moving through a house or farm quickly. You want a short, quick handling weapon. Some will be found, but again most in a marauder gang will want something handier. That being the case, most shotguns will be sawed off.

[LT. Ox]

This M-2 was picked up during execution search warrant for drugs, specifically meth; it was a “shotgun news” conversion if I am remembering correctly. Big problem was the serial number (top rear of receiver) had been ground off.
I was not familiar with them at the time but curious about the selector, I had not seen one before.
Both the M-1 carbine and the M-14 could be “field modified” by dropping the trigger group and inserting a piece of twig in the proper location (impeding the sear) it was not selective fire but would fire auto until trigger was released, or the damn twig fell out. We used them in AIT as op force to give us some “extra” fire power during training ambush and counter ambush tactics.