I can't even look at an M-16 style rifle without thinking that but for 2 years difference in birth year I would have been issued one and sent to a rice paddy with it. Selective fire! Woo-Woo!

They weren't quite as highly regarded then as now.

Neither were communists. We used to shoot them instead of electing them to public office.

Times do change.

"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble