The AFT takes forgotten homework assignments very seriously.
The AFT takes forgotten homework assignments very seriously.
M855A1 is not formally classified as owner of piercing ammo, and I would have no problem with it being sold commercially.
But theft is theft. Buying what a reasonable person would (or should) believe to be stolen property is facilitating theft.
It seems here you “doth protest too much”.
There are only two sources for m855a1:
That sold to entities in the firearms / defense industry for testing and product development; these sales normally come with caveat that the ammunition is not for commercial resale.
And that stolen or otherwise converted to cash for personal gain.
It’s entirely possible the OP acquired his legitimately via industry contacts “for science.”
But as discussed , any for sale online, at gun shows etc is reasonably attributable as stolen as there is no legitimate source for 855a1 for commercial resale at this time.
Good Grief people!
Ya'll know this stuff leaves some CSSB's qualification range as shorted dunnage or whatever all the damn time. You know how this stuff usually ends up on the market. Can't you at-ease that shit for 30 seconds and appreciate that a testable quantity of it made it into @Molon 's hands so he can deliver this top-shelf testing battery and information on it?
Or maybe give @Molon the benefit of the doubt given his absolutely stellar track record for methodical data-driven analysis and consistent data collection methods and conclude that there's a very, very high probability he doesn't manage a night shift at Burger King for a living, and perhaps has legitimate sources and industry contacts for this sort of thing?
Or do we need to have the fuck-up-a-wet-dream flailing and raging over a handful of ammo when there's Fed/Mil organizations that lose whole-ass VEHICLES all the time?
This kind of ankle-biting what-about bullshit is exactly what drives bona-fide experts away from P-F. So simmer down. Jeez.
Combat Sustainment Support Battalion aka fobbit support dweebs that typically have sock-puppet morons or tryhard mouthbreathers for command teams, and between the failings of bad commanders plus getting shit on by the rest of the Army all the time, they usually have little motivation or morale. Hence, CSSB's tend to be (aren't always, but tend to be) rife with systemic rot across all things including supply discipline.
Basically, if I had to bet on where any given 'lost' item or equipment came from, and I had to pick an Army element without any other clues or knowledge of local units or anything else, I'd bet on it being a CSSB.