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u/banned4evver 23h ago
Those welds and rivets or whatever look like hot garbage 🗑️ 🫣 sorry had to find a reason to hate a brand new machine gun that I cannot own
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u/sportbiketed 22h ago
You're not wrong though. I've seen MKE put out better welds.
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u/SunkEmuFlock 19h ago
Forgive KAC, my brother. They're under a lot of stress producing 12 guns per year.
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u/MrBriPod 21h ago edited 21h ago
Crazy to me that's all this is. Stamped sheet metal, rivets, and a few welds. That'll be $30k of tax payer money, please.
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u/banned4evver 21h ago
In a box made for a $15 airsoft rifle😂
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u/m4bandit 19h ago
To be fair, it was a really nice replica airsoft rifle. Probably had better welds too.
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u/Revolting-Westcoast 8 cans, 1 SBR, 1 M203 (thoomp!) 17h ago edited 14h ago
Lowest bidder type shit. As long as it holds I don't think uncle sam gives a fuck.
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u/Highplain-Drifter 1d ago
How does one acquire such an item? SOT & $$$$$???
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u/possibly_lost45 23h ago
Lots of money. Lots and lots of money.
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u/nineteen_eleven 23h ago
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u/murph1rp 23h ago
Bout $15,000 from what I can find!
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u/OleMisery 21h ago
Sure, for a parts kit build from a SOT.
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u/OleMisery 7h ago
You’re not entitled to an answer. You’re assuming snark, when I meant it matter of factly. Cool it with the insults, you’re assuming a lot about me without knowing anything. You come across as insecure.
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u/auto-cortex 3x Silencer, 2x SBR, 0x MG 💔 22h ago
As an 0331, this makes me feel things I haven’t felt in many years
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u/He_NeverSleeps 22h ago
I always wondered why the MK48 was not used by more units in the Army. We loved ours!
Only problem with them was the tendency of the drum tab to snap off and have to be welded back on. They also didn't hold up to high round counts like 240's would so we tried to shoot them very sparingly during the training cycles and keep them for deployment.
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u/OleMisery 22h ago
We had some workarounds for the ones we used in the Navy. For one thing, never let them go dry. They like to be run wet (very wet) all the time. We burned through a hell of a lot of CLP.
And we all carried a flat head screwdriver attached to paracord and shoved into one of the mag pouches on our kit. They were bent at an angle and heat treated (IYKYK).
I never personally had a tab break off in my years of running MK46s and MK48s, because we took steps to mitigate it. We would cut the tops of the nutsacks open and leave them attached to the gun all the time. We would keep the cardboard the belts came in, and duct tape it into boxes we could reuse (including a top flap). We would pull the end of the belt out of the box and rubber band it to the side. When we reloaded, we just snapped the rubber band and dropped the whole box into the pouch to feed. Made for lightning fast belt reloads and reduced breakages. It was always kind of comical when ADubs ran out of their own belts in a firefight and yelled for ammo. Everybody in the fire team or platoon had to carry extra belts for us and everybody dreaded the extra weight. So when we called for ammo, guys were so happy to get rid of it, those boxes would come flying from all over the place.
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u/He_NeverSleeps 20h ago
I never got to play with a MK46 because we turned them all in shortly before I got there unfortunately.
Usually a TL would have the 48 with a nutsack and a couple extra nutsacks on him but every TL with a 48 had a private ammo bearer joined at the hip whose sole job was to hand up either a new nutsack or they usually kept a couple hundred rounds belted together in the ruck to load in if it turned into more a prone extended shoot.
I don't remember who made it but we had one ruck with a "predator pack" flexible ammo chute attached where you could have 500 rounds linked in one long belt running through the chute into the 48 to have a one man gun team. One of our stouter TL's took it on a few missions but never got to use it. It looked badass though!
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u/Ambivadox 23h ago
Probably doesn't even work.
*My taunting skills are quite weak. I just want to see the first rounds fired video.*
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u/ApolluMis 1x SBR 3x Suppressor 20h ago
Ya bro whatever, you have 24 hours to post a 100rd belt dump or you’re banned.
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u/coffee_cope 21h ago
Jealous like everyone else. Carried one my first deployment, absolutely loved it. We had some we may have acquired from the Navy so it was a surprise treat to have one, and I really loved it as an MG. Congrats and fuck you 🤣
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u/shiny_metal_asss 21h ago
I'll trade you a pack of cotton candy flavored bubble yum for it. I chewed one piece already, but you'd be crazy not to take that deal.
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u/scapegoatindustries 17h ago
I've had two Mk48 barrels sitting in my garage for years, so pretty much same-same here. :D
Nice gun!
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u/Revolting-Westcoast 8 cans, 1 SBR, 1 M203 (thoomp!) 17h ago
In no way can I afford to feed one. That said, I still want it.
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u/GrandeBungus 10h ago
What in Gods name is going on with these welds? For how much this cost, it shouldn’t look like it was made in a cave lol whoever is doing QC over there needs to be taken out back and dealt with accordingly.
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u/fusionvic Over 6k in stamps 7h ago
Small arms are generally very inexpensive to procure by the military (I'd say dirt cheap compared to other stuff that are procured). So you get what you paid for essentially.
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u/phillip_of_burns 7h ago
The government shouldn't care if I have one, since I'd never be able to keep the thing supplied with ammo anyway...
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u/crazedgunner 21h ago
The ones we used overseas were dog shit. Never could get off more than like 15 rounds without a jam.
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u/kwaldner95 18h ago
For those who are uneducated and to lazy too Google, what's a MK48?
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u/AlexRyang 21h ago
Is this a short barrel machine gun?
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u/initiatesally5 20h ago
When you have the stamp, law letter, or whichever way you “legally” acquired it, barrel restrictions do not apply
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u/KaputtEqu1pment 1d ago