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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
Sir, seeing your troops in Japan on riot control would have been a site to behold. I have always enjoyed reading personal accounts of events.
When I went through riot training, my instructor was very clear on his opinion of bayonets. He felt they were 100% psychological. For some reason the mob will ignore a rife pointed at them, but a bayonet intimidates them. Maybe they think it was unlikely they would be shot, but there was a good possibility of getting poked.
On the passing of the Bradley Bill, that opinion was reinforced for me. One of the rules/insanities to make a rifle safer, was no bayonet lug. I could not think of any drive buy bayoneting let lone a gang fight where a bayonet charge was used. IMHO, the whole purpose of the Bradley bill was anti-gun and to create a psychological myth of the "assault weapon". Some mysterious firearm that if anyone picked it up there would be a overwhelming urge to commit a crime.
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I believe that you are referring to the "Brady Bill" or "Assault Weapons Ban", not the "Bradley Bill".
TR
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