The Gun Digest Book of Assault Weapons
by Lewis, Jack; Steele, David E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Krause Pubns Inc
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Summary
This well-illustrated edition covers the latest assault weaponry, training, and tactics in use today by military and law enforcement units around the world. Coverage includes rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, combat shotguns-plus a review of recent arms trends and a look at 21st century weaponry.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| About The Authors | p. 4 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 5 |
| Then and Now | |
| A Special Kind of Gun Control | p. 9 |
| Demise Of The Battle Rifle | p. 17 |
| Old Uzi, New Uzi | p. 21 |
| Lifesaver Sixgun | p. 25 |
| Global Studies In Submachine Guns | p. 30 |
| Tools For Armed Entry | p. 34 |
| The Knight Is No Pawn | p. 40 |
| Special Teams, Special Weapons | p. 46 |
| Guns That Didn't Make It | p. 52 |
| The RSG-12 Sniper Rifle | p. 57 |
| The Mysterious SM-9 | p. 60 |
| South Africa's BXP Panther | p. 62 |
| Saco's Model 683 Submachine Gun | p. 65 |
| The Rifles | |
| Three Decades Of The 5.56 | p. 68 |
| From Burp Gun To Assault Rifle | p. 73 |
| Schools For Riflemen | p. 77 |
| A Rifle Called Erma | p. 86 |
| Galil's 7.62 NATO Sniper Model Rifle | p. 89 |
| From Russia's Arms Mills | p. 93 |
| The Gepard Modular Submachine Gun | p. 97 |
| The New Sturmgewehr: Heckler and Koch's G36 | p. 100 |
| The AR-15 In Police Work | p. 107 |
| Submachine Guns | |
| The Family Of Fifties | p. 113 |
| The Police Subgun | p. 120 |
| Today's Subgun Training | p. 124 |
| The Businessman's Subgun | p. 132 |
| Second-Generation Subgun | p. 138 |
| Star's Z-84: A Subgun For Divers? | p. 140 |
| Crew-Served Machine Guns | |
| Machine Guns: From Light To Heavy | p. 145 |
| Can Bigger Be Better? | p. 149 |
| Our Model 249 SAW | p. 158 |
| Chain Of Violence | p. 166 |
| The Stoner 96 Light Machine Gun | p. 173 |
| Machine Pistols | p. 178 |
| Keeping Their Heads Down | p. 182 |
| Combat Shotguns | |
| Handling The Combat Shotgun | p. 188 |
| The 12-Gauge Translator | p. 194 |
| Mossberg's Jungle Gun | p. 200 |
| The Winchester Model 1300 Defender | p. 209 |
| The Universal Pass Key | p. 217 |
| And The 21st Century? | |
| Assault Weapons For The Millennium | p. 230 |
| Colt's M-4 Carbine Issue | p. 237 |
| The Eyes Of Battle | p. 247 |
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