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The purpose of the police carbine is to bridge the gap between the handgun and the precision rifle. The Ruger PC Carbine is simple to maintain and highly maneuverable.
The Ruger PC Carbine, semiautomatic carbine, can be fed with commonly acquired Ruger and Glock magazines. It was not hard in this month's testing to determine that this firearm is ready to be sworn in at any time.
The Ruger PC Carbine has a receiver made of CNC milled aerospace grade 7075 T6 aluminum. The receiver has an integrated rail with a hard coat anodized finish. The cold hammer-forged chrome moly 16.12 inch barrel has a 1:10 right-hand twist. The barrel comes with a l/2"-28 thread, with an included thread protector.
The gun is fairly lightweight at 6.8 pounds. It comes standard with a glass filled nylon synthetic stock, which includes a forward accessory rail. The stock came with a spacer kit for precision fitting.
When discussing the purpose of a police carbine with one of the members of my testing team, he asked me why I was so excited about this gun. Anyone who has been around me enough probably has heard this ad nauseam-the purpose of the police carbine is to bridge the gap between the handgun and the precision rifle. It is something that every patrol car, and most other specialty assignment vehicles, should have.
The Ruger PC Carbine takes magazines common to the largest percentage of agencies in the world. It feeds a common cartridge and a common magazine without modification. It accepts common optics and accessories.
When I finished the testing, I determined that it was simple to maintain, highly maneuverable and shares almost the exact manual of arms as the most familiar .22 caliber semi-automatic carbine in the industry.
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The sub-caliber trainer for the Ruger PC Carbine, the Ruger 10/22, has been continuously in production since 1964.1 would venture to guess almost every gun owning household has one, which means that most of us can pick up a Ruger PC Carbine and operate it nearly blindfolded.
Once adopted by an agency, the Ruger PC Carbine gives all of the officers in that agency license to go out and get themselves a 10/22 so they...