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Something interesting coming out of a guy's garage in Colorado Springs:
Army might have found its new rifle in Colorado Springs garage
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The Army adopted its battle rifle in 1963 and has spent 55 years looking for a replacement for the M-16 and its variants.
They might have found it in Martin Grier’s Colorado Springs garage. Grier, a self-described inventor who has worked at a local bed and breakfast, built the new “ribbon gun” with a hobbyist’s tools. It looks like a space-age toy drawn by a fifth-grader.
But goofy origins and cartoon-looks aside, this could be the gun of the future. The Army is studying Grier’s gun and has ordered a military-grade prototype.
https://gazette.com/military/army-mi...5a0e767a4.html
I see both positives and negatives in this new design. Lets just go with the first one I saw. Fires by using an electric pulse instead of a firing pin.. hmmmmmmm-- wouldnt that require a power source--as in a battery?
How about shelf life of a battery and its failure at a critical moment.
I suggest, just bring back the M-14...
And why fire 4 bullets at once--wouldn't that be a waste of ammo? Especially when all 4 miss?
THAT COULD BE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WASTED IN AMMO ALONE.. --Tyr
Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 10-05-2018 at 05:07 AM.
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