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Winchester SPIW, semi auto flechette-shooting rifle.
Other gun companies submitted other designs to be considered for military adoption as a Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW),
But this one is from Winchester in 1964.
Some pics of it would show it with the 40mm semi-auto grenade launcher attached on the front end.
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Other gun companies submitted other designs to be considered for military adoption as a Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW),
But this one is from Winchester in 1964.
Some pics of it would show it with the 40mm semi-auto grenade launcher attached on the front end.
Winchester SPIW
The SPIW was an assault rifle designed in collaboration by Winchester and Olin for the Special Purpose Individual Weapon program. Four designers made designs for the SPIW program: Harrington & Richardson, AAI, Springfield and Winchester. Winchester's design was rather innovative; it had a "short...
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Winchester SPIW, semi auto flechette-shooting rifle.
Other gun companies submitted other designs to be considered for military adoption as a Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW),
But this one is from Winchester in 1964.
Some pics of it would show it with the 40mm semi-auto grenade launcher attached on the front end.
Winchester SPIW
The SPIW was an assault rifle designed in collaboration by Winchester and Olin for the Special Purpose Individual Weapon program. Four designers made designs for the SPIW program: Harrington & Richardson, AAI, Springfield and Winchester. Winchester's design was rather innovative; it had a "short...
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Swedish Hamilton trials pistol - it was a trials pistol for an early 1900s Swedish handgun testing for a new military sidearm where the 1903 Colt won. The pistol was chambered for 6.5 Bergmann and lost due to the awkward handling. I nicknamed it the banana pistol.
Umm... Lena Miculek's tubes of lipstick?
Mmm.... Not quite
Ok, I can't name a specific brand or even the caliber (because there's nothing in the photo that I can use for a size reference)...
but these centerfire bottlenecked rifle cartridges look like .30-06 cases to me,
and they look like they have wax or rubber bullets intended for either less lethal crowd control or, more likely, elementary marksmanship training,
to be single loaded only and manually cycled, to shoot indoors with minimal noise and no lead contamination at distances of 50 to 75 feet.
(Even a wax, rubber, nylon, vinyl, or plastic bullet is accurate enough to reveal major problems with somebody's sight picture or trigger control during close range indoor marksmanship.)
Something like these:
but these centerfire bottlenecked rifle cartridges look like .30-06 cases to me,
and they look like they have wax or rubber bullets intended for either less lethal crowd control or, more likely, elementary marksmanship training,
to be single loaded only and manually cycled, to shoot indoors with minimal noise and no lead contamination at distances of 50 to 75 feet.
(Even a wax, rubber, nylon, vinyl, or plastic bullet is accurate enough to reveal major problems with somebody's sight picture or trigger control during close range indoor marksmanship.)
Something like these:
