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160 - Choose Your Weapon

No Dumb Questions

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The History of the Military Rifle

There are some really interesting new designs coming out. There were some really forward thinking for people in the third chair who aren't familiar with firearm and military technology. I remember I had to do a speech competition at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2002, 2003. How would that, how do we go from that sword to my arm? This is your fault. You could have just rolled with the joke and said you pulled up your shirt like a hussy. It was not a debate. It was a speech competition. He was working on a way to make a new military rifle using liquid propellant. And the idea was that, hey, we'll just put the bullet in the chamber

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