Blue? M-16's?

[okie shooter]

https://www.us.army.mil/suite/photo/ako-400-20100415-web100414n7498l681.jpg


Ok which branch issues Blue M-16's

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Members of the visit, board, search and seizure team of the guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane (DDG 77) approach the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a maritime security training exercise. The exercise involved teams from O'Kane, USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) and USS Crommelin (FFG 37).

Does the navy have blue rifles, or are they some sort of trainer, any one know?

[Optimus Prime]

Dummy rifles for training. (http://www.blueguns.com/)

[Sapheit warrior]

I've seen these called Non-guns also. They seem heavier then the real thing as well.

[okie shooter]

The photo popped up on my computer a while ago, when I open the internet, just thought it was unusal that even the military doesnt want to train with live weapons, on a military installation. It caught my eye.

I can understand PD's in cities and such but this training was in the middle of Pearl Harbor. Just my two cents.

[M1 Tanker]

Rubber duckie...your the one...

[Optimus Prime]

Had a guy in basic that constantly skrewed up and was stuck with an M60 rubber duck for a couple weeks straight. That was a heavy son of a #$%@&.

[Sapheit warrior]

Wow I bet that was a heavy mother.... We used the non guns to do room clearing drills on the third floor of our building. The bottom two floors were used as working office space. I think we used them because it was easier to grab those and go instead of having to fill out the armory paper work for our MK-18's. Now that I think about it, we had a shoot house up there and shot sim-unitions up there, certa (spelling?) also... strange... I'm guessing it was a paper work issue then.

[Optimus Prime]

Maybe they just didn't trust the guys to not drop a real gun in the harbor...

[MicroPilot]

Dummy rifles for training. (http://www.blueguns.com/)

At least these guys don't have their fingers on the triggers so those blue guns can't accidentally go off!

[Optimus Prime]

At least these guys don't have their fingers on the triggers so those blue guns can't accidentally go off!

Train as you fight...

[Jsquared]

Their catalog is awesome! Although I dont know someone would need a rubber duckie Motorola radio...


http://www.blueguns.com/WebRes_guns/thumbs/FSMTS2000.jpg

[Optimus Prime]

They use them at law enforcement academies... a lot cheaper than buying a bunch of actual radios that'll just get smashed.

[Jsquared]

I was thinking of crazy hand-to-hand radio antenna tactics :)

[M1 Tanker]

Maybe they just didn't trust the guys to not drop a real gun in the harbor...

The boats I've seen in Pearl riding around are armed with the real deal.

[RandyCOG3]

Something is horribly wrong in the world.
You can buy a perfectly functional, pink AR15 with Hello Kitty stickers on it.
But, if you see somebody run by training in camo's with a pretty blue gun, you can feel safe in knowing everything's OK...
What about that blue Ariska from the other thread?
And, if I want a toy gun, it's gotta have an orange protrusion from the muzzle, I guess?

I need an aspirin.

RandyCOG3

[Optimus Prime]

Could always get a red gun... that's pretty close to pink.

[chili]

The USAF issues basic trainees M16A2's with blue stocks, rest of the metal black and no trigger assembly.

[turmanator]

I have a black rubber Garand trainer. Pretty cool. I bought it for $7.00 at an auto parts swap meet. Even has a SN#. There was a piece of steel kinda like rebar for the barrell but that is missing. I'm sure I put something on it. Thing is heavy and weighs as much as the real thing.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/turmanator/100_0370.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/turmanator/100_0371.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/turmanator/100_0372.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/turmanator/100_0376.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/turmanator/100_0380.jpg

[Phirebug]

In tanker OSUT, when you screwed ip bad enough you got to carry around a rubber HEAT round.

[jfowl31]

Something is horribly wrong in the world.
You can buy a perfectly functional, pink AR15 with Hello Kitty stickers on it.
But, if you see somebody run by training in camo's with a pretty blue gun, you can feel safe in knowing everything's OK...
What about that blue Ariska from the other thread?
And, if I want a toy gun, it's gotta have an orange protrusion from the muzzle, I guess?

I need an aspirin.

RandyCOG3

I really wanted to paint the flashhider of my Cetme or any other evil black rifle orange... is that illegal?

[Optimus Prime]

It's not, but it's not going to win you any fans... Just google Leonard Embody (http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=Leonard+Embody&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=)...

[The-Stig]

My basic training experience did not involve rubber ducks very much. M16A2's with blank adapters mostly.

[Smokehouse69]

turmanator you oughta see if you can rebuild that thing! A new barrel, a few other parts and you might have a nice shooter! :lolgreen:

[k98k792]

I really wanted to paint the flashhider of my Cetme or any other evil black rifle orange... is that illegal?

Tell me you are kidding.

[cz777]

for training weapons -painted wooden mock weapons where used by army ww1 till ww2 ........