How a Mercenary Movie Invented a New Type of Weapon
It is hard to overestimate just how much movies shape modern gun culture. Like many, I attribute my fascination with firearms to Hollywood movies. But I am only aware of one instance when a movie gun accidentally created a new type of armament. This story begins in 1967 in the jungles of Biafra in West…

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