US Army ditching 5.56 for 6.8

[Basher]

Or what???
No crap going on. This is a open fourm to the public. Are you trying to silence people and their opinions too.

LOL! I'm not looking to "silence" anyone, I'm looking to keep the juvenile BS to a minimum. Intellectual conversation is one thing. Digging up nearly year old threads to figuratively fling poo at another user because you guys can't contain your lover's spat is another issue entirely. I've been around through three iterations of this forum, and I'd rather not have to deal with another anytime soon due to erosion from this kind of garbage. Act like an adult, and you'll last awhile here. Don't, and you won't. Your call.

[17-21-23]

Yes it is my call. You only deal with it if you allow yourself to get worked up and have to say something about it.

[Doc Holliday]

Just think in a couple of years there will be Millions of 5.56 milsurp flooding the market @ $.15 per round.

The gov't will probably just destroy it all.

[17-21-23]

No way. They will keep it somewhere and when they want to help some rebels they will have it to give.

[ArizonaGreenTea]

No way. They will keep it somewhere and when they want to help some rebels they will have it to give.

Doubt it. This is regular politics. bureaucracy and entrepreneurship, showing face so the people can't say that the info wasn't put out there later on. What's gonna happen is the same thing that always happens. They're gonna see that they've got a bunch of 5.56 stockpiled, Lake City is tooled for it, the DoD is set up for 5.56, this is gonna get reshuffled into a "Well, we're already using 5.56, why bother rolling out a likely slow gradual and expensive change when we can just stay with this, so...", and 6.8 is gonna get relegated to select units of blah, blah, blah that need the extra firepower because they won't/don't have adequate logistics or something if they can't kill XXXXX fast enough justifying the select/specific cost(s) or some super secret squirrel teams that need it...", pockets gonna get padded with the newfound "surplus", and we're gonna b**** about the increased cost of 5.56 s*** since the .Gov/.Mil is sticking with it [5.56], therefore, reducing the overall available supplies and available stockpiles in 20XX. Consistency of results of projects and studies from DoD, et al, with connected and/or the well-positioned sort making dough on the inception of and later disregard of said projects and studies. It's worked out for them so far, s*** ain't gonna change until this changes. Just sayin'.

[17-21-23]

Nope your right. The super secret scroll teams have company credit cards that they can use to acquire anything mission critical.