Posted on 03/17/2006 8:21:19 PM PST by Northern Alliance
6 shot, "revolver" type 40mm grenade launchers have been around for years. But the U.S. military has never adopted them, until now. The U.S. Marine Corps has, after several months of testing, issued these weapons to troops in Iraq.
The MGL-140 40mm, six shot, grenade launcher is now called the M32. This weapon is, literally, a shotgun size revolver that fires standard American 40mm grenades. Thus it has a minimum range of 30 meters, and a maximum range of 400 meters. The weapon is 32 inches long, and weighs 13.2 pounds empty, and 20.3 pounds loaded (40mm rounds weigh about 19 ounces each.) Like any 40mm grenade launcher, it can fire lethal and non-lethal (tear gas, Etc.) rounds, and fire all six of them in a few seconds. The M32 also has a rail for mounting various types of aiming devices (day and night scopes). M32s retail for $6,000 each, but the marines have gotten a volume discount.
Currently, each battalion has one M32, to be used to see how the weapon performs in combat. If user reports are positive, more will be issued. Marines and soldiers have used their single shot, 40mm grenade launchers, a lot in Iraq, and with much success. But the single shot 40mm launchers have been around since the 1960s, and the marines wanted to try something new. Weapons like the MGL-140 have been used by police and military organizations for years.
Does it do Moles too?
Just KIDDING! That is a sweet weapon!
But then I do have a BIG mole problem....
Sounds like something Rambo or the Terminator would use.LOL!
I use road flares to get moles or gophers....just light it and stick it in the hole
I want want one...going to ebay...
My dog tries to dig them up and makes the problem even worse.
Good news bump.
This should do the trick! 
a picture worth a thousand words....
Didn't these start in South Africa? Will political correctness disarm our Marines?
i wish i had one o' them...
hmmmm...guess i'll have to plead ignorant on that one. couldve been an m203 version of this thing here.
Ahh, the revolver, a fantastic design first developed by Sam'l Colt in 1836 and still used today. I love it.
South Africans invented that baby decades ago. (Walken used one in the old movie, "Dogs Of War") There was a civilian version in 12 gauge, it was banned when the antis and MSM applied the moniker, "street sweeper" to it and our congress critters took to their normal emotional law passing.
What? Is nobody from the armed citizen ping list going to start calling for this to be the new standard household home defense weapon? This isn't the 12 guage's replacement? I mean, cum on, if every responsible home owner is to keep a 12 guage handily loaded with OO buckshot, why kick it up a notch and keep this puppy by the nightstand? No aiming needed, the shells won't go through walls, and even a chick could use them....
(I am of course kidding...I do so love the armed citizen ping)
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