The Gun Digest Book of Assault Weapons

by Lewis, Jack; Steele, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780873417785
• ISBN10: 087341778X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc

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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