Mind to explain the story again to us young kiddos ? <| sep |> You know I always figured as much as I enjoy shooting in my free time as a straight nasty . if I ever had a commission and a pretty solid lifestyle like that in the military I would end up doing the same thing . Thanks for telling me that though , I always assumed they got breezed through all winks and nods or whatever , the fact that he took the effort to keep his rifle qual up too as a general officer seems pretty awesome and typically Mattis . That ' s one trade off you just can ' t get as a civilian , I mean sure I can spend 25 k and pick up a pre 86 M 16 or I think I even saw a 240 or 249 on gunbroker once . but I ' m never going to be able to get a MK 19 or M 2 or something , and even if I somehow did manage to legally acquire one of the bigger ones , no way I could afford to keep it fed .