I recently bought a Palmetto State AR-15 that closely resembles an M16 to go along w/ my Colt Law Enforcement AR-15, made when bayonet lugs were briefly banned on commercial models & Colt continued to make them for Law Enforcement, Military and Export. As you can see the Palmetto State rifles are marked “Property of U.S. Govt. M4 Carbine & have a “3 round burst” setting. (The selector will not turn to this setting) Colt marked their AR-15 w/ "Law Enforcement Carbine” on left side & the “restricted” markings on the right side.
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Colt & Palmetto State Armory AR-15 Comparisons
I recently bought a Palmetto State AR-15 that closely resembles an M16 to go along w/ my Colt Law Enforcement AR-15, made when bayonet lugs were briefly banned on commercial models & Colt continued to make them for Law Enforcement, Military and Export. As you can see the Palmetto State rifles are marked “Property of U.S. Govt. M4 Carbine & have a “3 round burst” setting. (The selector will not turn to this setting) Colt marked their AR-15 w/ "Law Enforcement Carbine” on left side & the “restricted” markings on the right side.
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I never could quite figure out the legality of allowing guns purely made for the commercial market to be marked "US Government Property". Kinda makes marking the real ones USG property pointless.
I have several different models of very nice Colt ARs that are great shooters and I love. That said, I also have several PSAs that are very accurate, they are my truck guns that I don’t mind beating up. The US Government markings are a sales gimmick and kinda dumb.
I figure why go out of my way to get a gun that artificially presents as a potential problem with under-informed L.E. types unless it has the cache of actually being made by a provider - in which case, the risk may be worth it.
Items in my possession which have had me at the brink of arrest for lack of information on the part of half-briefed or not-understanding-everything-that-they 'know' various L.E. types.
Surplus ammunition
Steel-cored ammuntion
.50 ammunition
Tracer ammunition
L.E. marked Colt
U.S. Property marked handguns
HMMWV
RB-15 and an Avon RHIB
Sure and there are all kinds of "yeah, but..." and 'it's only...' surrounding each of the above items but at least each of them actually was Government-sourced and potentially getting in dutch for an overt fake gives me the heebie--jeebies.
Not an indictment of the OP's gun nor of Law Enforcement.... merely a first-person 'heads-up' in this vein.
Items in my possession which have had me at the brink of arrest for lack of information on the part of half-briefed or not-understanding-everything-that-they 'know' various L.E. types.
Surplus ammunition
Steel-cored ammuntion
.50 ammunition
Tracer ammunition
L.E. marked Colt
U.S. Property marked handguns
HMMWV
RB-15 and an Avon RHIB
Sure and there are all kinds of "yeah, but..." and 'it's only...' surrounding each of the above items but at least each of them actually was Government-sourced and potentially getting in dutch for an overt fake gives me the heebie--jeebies.
Not an indictment of the OP's gun nor of Law Enforcement.... merely a first-person 'heads-up' in this vein.
I 120% agree with all of the above. Why would I want any of my firearms to state that they belong to any entity that isn't me? It's exactly why the, 'restricted' and, 'property of US govt' stamps have never appealed to me.
I’m a retired municiple & federal law enforcement training instructor w/ an FFL. Any law enforcement officer who would confuse a commercially manufactured & sold AR-15 like the two posted w/ a “select fire” firearm shouldn’t be in law enforcement. If one collects surplus military firearms all of them will have the country’s name previously using them stamped into them. I guess nobody collects M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, 1903/A3, 1917 Enfields, 1911/A1 .45s, German K98s, Japanese Type 99s, 38s, Nambu pistols, etc., etc. I guess if one has never carried or used a firearm while serving in the military it might be confusing to some out there. 😜
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