[OT] Re: twisted approach to gunsmithing?

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to festusdirk@urbia.de, on Wed, 11 Apr 2001 the word on the
street was...

> donīt know about russians, but in ww2 germany really 
> experimented with versions of the mp and assault rifle 
> with bend barrels to shoot round corners in close 
> quarters combat.

The idea was actually to be able to shoot out of trenches and foxholes (and
even AFVs) without having to stick your head over the top, not so much to
shoot around corners in street fighting (which is what most writers seem to
think they were for). It you look at the arrangement of the mirror/prism on
the barrel extension, this is pretty obvious.

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