<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-krttext" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px rgb(243,243,243);line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:lato,sans-serif">"The Army adopted its battle rifle in 1963 and has spent 55 years looking for a replacement for the M-16 and its variants.</p><p class="gmail-krttext" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px rgb(243,243,243);line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:lato,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="gmail-krttext" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px rgb(243,243,243);line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:lato,sans-serif">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."</p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="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">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</a><br></div></div></div>