[ExI] Army might have found its new rifle in Colorado Springs garage

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 1:32 pm, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 03:12, John Grigg  wrote:
> >
> > "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://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/10/army-might-have-found-its-new-rifle-in-colorado-springs-garage/?utm_campaign=DailyEmails&utm_source=AM_Email&utm_medium=email
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>
> Interesting. When I tried to follow this link (from London, UK) I
> received a notice that due to EU GDPR law this page was not available
> to any EU citizens.
> What's the point of that? Don't they know how the Internet works?


I could access it from a boat in the Saronic Gulf!

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Stathis Papaioannou
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