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echo: guns
to: JOHN SANDOW
from: VERN HUMPHREY
date: 1996-05-18 08:31:00
subject: 106mm R.R.

JS>VH>JS>That's exactly what they did with M72's in basic.  Toothpicks is 
ust
JS>VH>JS>about the right definition, I would not have beleived it otherwise.
JS>VH>The backblast from an M72 LAW isn't a patch on a 106's backblast. :-)
JS>Gosh.  at only about 1/6 the velocity and half the weight I'd imagine
JS>not.  Maybe that's what the Jackal should have used...
Good choice.  It would have taken care of DeGaulle AND what's-his-face,
the detective with the same shot -- one with a squash head round, the
other with the backblast.
JS>VH>The new LAW, the Armbrust, is actually a disposable gun -- not a rocket
JS>VH>-- and has even more backblast.
JS>Huh.  I've not even seen one of these.  Unca Sam doesn't invite me over
JS>for demos anymore.  I wonder, does Jane's make a small arms annual?
I shot a bunch of them in Singapore (they use it, too) and I have a
training version, with the 9mm rifle inside.
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