The Army is fielding a new rifle for its snipers to use in combat. Based on the information that I have seen while researching this new rifle it is a bad mamma jamma. It is called the M110 Sniper Weapon System. This rifle will give the sniper a much faster rate of fire and greater accuracy at close ranges. I see this change as an adaptation to the combat requirements of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Snipers are put in circumstances in these wars that they have never faced before because this war is not conventional in the regular sense of the word.
Another advantage of this system is that it has parts which are interchangeable with existing rifles. I am always excited about the new technology that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and special operations folk get to work with. I have heard a few war stories from a lot of my customers who have come in to purchase snipers rings and I am always glad to spend some time and exchange stories with them.
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