The FN MTL-30 is a soldier-portable, semi-automatic, medium-velocity, flat trajectory grenade launcher that enables warfighters to engage targets at extended ranges with more effective payloads over existing technologies.
Hegseth is asking President Trump for final approval for the military execution of Hasan, an ex-Army psychiatrist who gunned down 13 people and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood in November 2009.
The Corps wanted to focus more on one shot/one kill versus the flip it to auto and “spray and pray” which had become the SOP in the jungles of Vietnam.
I spent a ton on this build between starting with a Wolf complete upper, rebuilding most of it, and then swapping lowers. Still, I’m glad I did it. My final build is a pretty accurate clone of the Taiwanese t91 issue rifle.
With the Cold War under way and the constant fear of a Soviet invasion through East Germany, West Germany turned on the spigot and new G3 rifles flowed out of HK as quickly as they could crank them out.
As part of its commitment to safety, AFGSC is implementing enhanced inspection procedures for the M18 pistol. The command’s bases will include additional inspection criteria for the areas where potential issues were found during the M18 pause.
Imagine being an infantry soldier and being handed a fighting rifle that held three times the ammunition and was three pounds lighter that what you’d been carrying. Plus it had a giggle switch to shoot like a machinegun.
Guns are allowed to be more than tools. They can be works of art, pieces of history, or cultural icons. They can be cool. They can bring joy. It’s that realization that’s changed my views and opinions of gun collecting.
The designer of the SKS rifle, Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, went to work on the design during WWII, but most readers
Fedor Tokarev borrowed heavily from John Moses Browning to design his single action, semi-automatic pistol. Some have called this pistol the “Soviet 1911.”
