M305 Newbie questions
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eaglesnester
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Wrong Wrong Wrong. For those of U that want to know google Norenco Wikipedia and the whole enchaledia will come up on Norenco. Norenco group is in mainland China that manufactures high tech weapons, crew served weapons, small arms and other various and sundry items used in war. The machine tools to manufacture M305 was sold to China not Taiwan. Yes this is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The US currently has an embargo on the importation of Norenco M305 rifles from Norenco because Norenco sold missle related goods to Iran in 2003. These sanctions were imposed by the Bush administration and are still in place to this day. The folks in the US can not buy a Norenco rifle you can not take a Norenco rifle into the US even for a day to use in a match.
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Turkinator
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Did bush have a crystal ball to see all the way to 2003? Because Polytechs were banned from import in '89 by bush then the Norincos were banned in '94 by Clinton. By 2003 everything Norinco was banned but I believe the Norinco m14 was banned in '94. The 2003 ban mopped up the rest of Norinco's none military styled firearms such as shotguns, .22 etc.
The m14 was banned in '94 following the undercover sting on a clandestine Norinco deal with inner city gangs.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-05-24/news/9605240246_1_nuclear-weapons-us-china-relationship-chinese-manufactured
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pay BETTER attention- the 305 is a REVERSE -ENGINEERED M14 from examples recovered from rvn and captured us troops-or dropped in the field- the us made machinery was sold to TAIWAN- not nationalist china- and it was WINCHESTER tooling that was sold , not springfield( government ) armory
we would see very few, if any , of those rifles and accessories over here- moreover, communist china was supposed to supply their m14s to Filipino rebels to confuse those rifles with Filipino government issue m14s at the time- however, the revolution came to naught, and chicoms were stuck with a quantity of m14s that they wanted to sell- after consultations with the us government ( batf) they decided to " civilize" these m14s by removing the funswitch and related components, and the bayonet lug- they also milled off the scope mounting hole at an angle of 30 degrees- these are the m14s that are currently in the states- however , the American producers of the m1a et al complained that they were being undercut by the Chinese, and that was the reason for the presidential ban, along with complaints that the Chinese product was inferior- soft bolts and other problems
we would see very few, if any , of those rifles and accessories over here- moreover, communist china was supposed to supply their m14s to Filipino rebels to confuse those rifles with Filipino government issue m14s at the time- however, the revolution came to naught, and chicoms were stuck with a quantity of m14s that they wanted to sell- after consultations with the us government ( batf) they decided to " civilize" these m14s by removing the funswitch and related components, and the bayonet lug- they also milled off the scope mounting hole at an angle of 30 degrees- these are the m14s that are currently in the states- however , the American producers of the m1a et al complained that they were being undercut by the Chinese, and that was the reason for the presidential ban, along with complaints that the Chinese product was inferior- soft bolts and other problems
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Wow this thread really drifted, lol.
I agree that the op-rod thing is probably just pulling up a little at the exact wrong time as you were pulling it back. If it jumps out of the rail while shooting at all then you've got a problem, but if it was just that one fluke then I wouldn't worry about it.
A really great resource (in addition to reading the stickies) is the excellent series of videos on TonyBen's Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa9vbzHvKPvslKC2hCGjG0A
psshhhhh, everyone knows that Norenco makes best jeepe engines, everyone!!!!
