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Posted: 2/16/2007 7:18:54 PM EDT
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Why are they sometimes removed on semi, but left on for a machinegun? |
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selector stops... On the lower receiver, at the "safety" If you look above the word "safe" (and where AUTO would be)... there should be an oval protrusion, this is the ground down "selector stop" on machineguns. just wondering why they are ground down on a semi, that's all. |
So far as I know, only Colt machines off those stops. Everyone elses I've seen have them on the lower. Understand; semi auto safety selectors are machined with the two position detents inset into the body, so the stop point is on the safety itself. Full auto and burst fire selectors have the detents machined into the outer surface of the piece, and that's why the external stop points were "created". Colt, in its' politically correct mode, started milling off those little tabs when they created the semi auto SP1s; and they're still doing it. Everyone elses I've ever seen had the tabs left on; probably because it saves them an extra machining step. Ironically, the one class three piece at my house, an SP1 carbine that I had made select fire in 1977, doesn't have the stop tabs, so I have to be careful not to go all the way around the top when I flip the selector switch. 
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