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SOTG 927 - FN Wins New Army Rifle Contract

Student of the Gun Radio

Release Date: 02/18/2020

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Today we have a special guest to help us with our NRA Annual Meeting after-action. Former and Future NRA Board Member, Isaac Demarest joins us to discuss the current state of the NRA, as well as a number of other topics. During our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. Professor Paul will address an inquiry about putting a mini red dot on a PCC? We also have a question from the SOTG Mailbag about sighting in handguns. For our SOTG Homeroom from Student of the Gun University, we will consider a mass killing in Canada? How did it happen? Why didn’t all the Canadian gun control prevent it? Can we learn...

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Talking 10: 10mm that is & Strength and Wellness | SOTG 1288 show art Talking 10: 10mm that is & Strength and Wellness | SOTG 1288

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John Willis from SOE & “Professional Citizens” | SOTG 1287 show art John Willis from SOE & “Professional Citizens” | SOTG 1287

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Today we have none other than John Willis from Original SOE Gear as your guest. Never a person to hold back, John will talk about preparation, resilience, business, rabbit poop, chickens and more. During our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. Professor Paul will discuss zeroing red dots and magnified optics as well as answering one of your questions on air. And, we solve the mystery of the missing battery. For our SOTG Homeroom this week we have a New York Times article to consider. The Times has discovered that some “Professional Citizens” are training with guns, radios, and night vision. We are...

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Paul and Jarrad are back from their extended training trip to Texas, Ohio, and Tennessee. During that time they had the opportunity to conduct some low light / night shooting. What was unique and what lessons were learned. We dive in during the Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. During our SOTG Homeroom, we had a sad story to report. Nonetheless, the lesson is an important one. You don’t get to decide when you are going to have the worst day of your life, someone else will decide that. All you can do is be prepared to deal with it. Finally, Professor Paul wrote an article for Shooting News Weekly...

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No intellectually honest person can argue that we have allowed the United States of America to be put into a terrible, dangerous position. Hard times are coming. The question we address is what can each person do about that? We will talk about controlling those things that we can control. Knowing and understanding the Deadly Force Checklist could be the difference between victory and disaster if you are ever put into a position where you are required to use a firearm to defend your life. We examine the Case of the Tacqaria Robbery in Texas. The United States of America is a joke to the...

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Training ammo, particularly 9x19mm, is back and it is available and affordable. During our SOTG Homeroom from SOTGU, Professor Paul will discuss the ammo situation in the United States and address the lies people tell themselves. During our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. we will take a close look at the new VUDU 3-9x32 “Super Short” riflescope. What is this all about? Might it be a tool that could enhance your shooting experience? “All hat and no cattle” is a phrase bandied about in the west. Does that phrase apply to some members of the gun community? We’ll discuss it and you can...

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FN USA of Columbia, South Carolina has won the new US Army Rifle contract according to the Army’s Contracting Command. The new contract is worth $119 million over a five year period. Which rifle will FN be building for the Army and in what caliber? 

Are you still on the fence about the RCP (Rifle-Caliber Pistol)? During our Brownell’s Bullet Points segment, Professor Paul considers the value of the RCP and addresses two critical components for using the short gun.

How important is it to be dangerous on demand? We answer that question in this week’s SOTG Homeroom from Crossbreed Holsters. Yet again, a child was attacked by a wild animal. Are you prepared to be dangerous on demand, all the time, everywhere you go? 

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From www.wvlt.tv:

A 6-year-old girl is recovering from puncture wounds to her leg after she was attacked by a mountain lion while walking in a California park.

The victim was walking on a trail with her parents, three other children and some adults Sunday morning in the Rancho San Antonio County Park and Open Space Preserve when a suspected mountain lion leapt at the 6-year-old.

One of the adults punched the mountain lion, believed to be about 160 pounds, in the ribs. The group made loud noises and scared it away.

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From nationalinterest.org:

“The system will adjust and potentially only fire when the muzzle will line up with its target. It will take into account atmospheric conditions, even automatically center the weapon using an internal system. We’re looking to get these capabilities ready as soon as possible.”

The Army claims its new assault rifle will unleash a hailstorm of specially-designed shells with as much chamber pressure as a battle tank to tear through even the most advanced body armor — and if all goes according to plan, the soldiers will get them to play with sooner than they thought.

(This first appeared several months ago.)

The service plans on fielding a Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle (NGSAR) — the first version in the Army’s Next-Generation Weapons System that chambers a round between 6.5mm and 6.8mm — as a potential replacement for its 80,000 M249 SAWs starting in fiscal 2022 rather than the original target date of fiscal 2025, Col. Geoffrey A. Norman, force development division chief at Army HQ, told Task & Purpose, with two per nine-man infantry squad.

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From www.thetruthaboutguns.com:

The military may be interested in other calibers, but the US Army has just awarded FN America a big contract to crank out thousands of M4’s chambered in good ol’ 5.56 over the next five years.

As the Defense Department has announced:
FN America LLC, Columbia, South Carolina, was awarded a $119,216,309 firm-fixed-price contract for M4/M4A1 carbine. Bids were solicited via the internet with six received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 30, 2025. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (W15QKN-20-D-0006).

All those rifles will be produced in FN’s South Carolina manufacturing facility which should be humming for the foreseeable future.

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