Hello everyone. I am new to this forum. I am from the Philippines. Although we have stricter firearm laws here (all firearms are registered and licensed), time and again, we as civilians enjoy what is called an amnesty period. During this period, unregistered firearms of most any type (we call them loose firearms here in this part of the world) may be registered and hence legally owned, without fear of reprisal from the government. It is how we here as civilians get to enjoy owning select fire weaponry like you do in the US.
I had recently acquired and registered through the government amnesty protocol, an old MAC 10 in 9mm. It is not my first select fire weapon but it is my first sub gun. The markings say it is made by RPB. It's finish is understandably worn however the inner workings look just fine. It had just one mag with it. It is steel with the characteristic "serpent" markings at the bottom.
I tried it at the range a couple of days back and found out it would only occassionally fire in full auto regardless of the selector settings. I gave it a good cleaning but got no change in it's behavior. The inner workings look fine to me with very little evidence of wear and tear (I seriously doubt this weapon has found any hard use in it's past because ammo is really prohibitively priced in this part of the world).
Just a frank question here.....where should I start my trouble shooting? Could it be the mag?
Thanks a lot in advance. I am hoping to hear from some of you soon.
I had recently acquired and registered through the government amnesty protocol, an old MAC 10 in 9mm. It is not my first select fire weapon but it is my first sub gun. The markings say it is made by RPB. It's finish is understandably worn however the inner workings look just fine. It had just one mag with it. It is steel with the characteristic "serpent" markings at the bottom.
I tried it at the range a couple of days back and found out it would only occassionally fire in full auto regardless of the selector settings. I gave it a good cleaning but got no change in it's behavior. The inner workings look fine to me with very little evidence of wear and tear (I seriously doubt this weapon has found any hard use in it's past because ammo is really prohibitively priced in this part of the world).
Just a frank question here.....where should I start my trouble shooting? Could it be the mag?
Thanks a lot in advance. I am hoping to hear from some of you soon.