by I never understood the gun prohibitionists’ preoccupation with bayonet lugs on AR-15s. It seemed every one of their attempts at an “assault weapon” ban included this feature as a disqualifying feature. Only the US Marine Corps still has bayonet training in our military as the Army has abandoned it. The last major US military bayonet charge was during the Korean War. I will note the British Army did very effective bayonet charges in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Mike Williamson examines a number of the bayonets for the AR-15/M-16 in his Sharp Pointy Things YouTube below.
I have a surplus M-7 bayonet as well as a surplus M-9. I think, without checking, my M-9 was made by LanCay and not Phrobis. That said, I am very envious of Mike’s modified Swiss Pioneer bayonet!
If you want to learn more about bayonet fighting, there are many free manuals on the Internet. You can bayonet training manuals for the armed forces of many countries including the US, Japan, and the UK. They make for interesting reading.
I’m partial to the M7 myself. I believe the shape is more conducive to use as a bayonet…which is what it is.
I realize that bayonets don’t have much utility in military operations these days, but I think they still have a place in civilian use.
Criminals and rioters often have little fear of someone with a rifle because they don’t think we’ll shoot…especially if they are “unarmed”. They’ll get right up in your face and push you out of the way.
But what if you’ve got a nice, nasty looking bayonet on the end of your rifle? I’m thinking that the threat of being cut, even accidentally, would be a good deterrent from them getting into your personal space.
I’ve never used it in life so I may be wrong, but I keep a bayonet on my home defense rifle for just those purposes. If I ever have the necessity to put my theory into practice and I live through the experience, I’ll let you know how it turned out.
At any rate, I’d love to have an OKC-3S, but they’re a bit pricey for me, and I’d probably just use it as a knife anyway rather than a bayonet…in which case I should probably just buy a K-bar. The M-9 always seemed a bit gimmicky to me. When you try to make something do too many things, they end up being not very good at any of them. I’ve never used one so I may be off on that, but that’s just the impression of them I’ve always had.
Drive-by bayonet attacks in Chicago.
They happen all the time.
The cover up is part of that vast right wing conspiracy.