<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 1:32 pm, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 03:12, John Grigg wrote:<br>
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> "The Army adopted its battle rifle in 1963 and has spent 55 years looking for a replacement for the M-16 and its variants.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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."<br>
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> <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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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>
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Interesting. When I tried to follow this link (from London, UK) I<br>
received a notice that due to EU GDPR law this page was not available<br>
to any EU citizens.<br>
What's the point of that? Don't they know how the Internet works?</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I could access it from a boat in the Saronic Gulf!</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>