that's different...
Posted on 02/15/2012 7:06:30 PM PST by smokingfrog
Fort Campbell, KY – It weighs 3.5 pounds, has a barrel length of 7.75 inches, fires 12-gauge shells and can be mounted on the M4 carbine or act as a stand alone firearm; it is the M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) is the first unit in the Army to be issued the combat enhancer.
“This is a new capability that is now in your hands for you to conduct your mission downrange,” said Col. Scott C. Armstrong, with Project Manager Soldier Weapons, during a presentation ceremony held at Fort Campbell’s Strike Academy, February 7th. “This is a big day, not just for the 2nd Brigade, but for the Army.”
Picatinny Arsenal-based PMSW is a group that supports Soldiers through the development, production, fielding and sustainment of current and future weapons systems. PMSW fielded the M26 MASS to the 2nd BCT, also known as the Strike Brigade due to the unit’s profile and future deployment schedule.
“We’re glad to be the first unit to put this weapon to work and there is an appreciation for all that goes into this,” said Col. Dan Walrath, the Strike commander, while holding the new Strike Shotgun.
After the ‘hand-over’ ceremony, the weapons were issued to Strike’s engineer company, Company A, 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion and Strike’s military police with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd BSTB. For three days, under the guidance of PMSW, the Strike Soldiers learned how to assemble, maintain, repair and effectively fire their new weapons.
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Wait, so it took them 9 years to go from initial field testing to deployment? The friggin Manhattan Project only took 3 years to develop and deploy the atom bomb!
Too complex, too bulky, too expensive for combat situations.
You are right; good luck maintaining that weapon in combat conditions.
No, the Supreme Court made no decision, because the record didn't say whether or not a short barrel shotgun had a military or "common (as in "for all of us," not as in "many people have them") defense" use. The case was sent back to the court that found the NFA to be unconstitutional, and that ruling (NFA is unconstitutional in light of the second amendment) holds if the weapon being taxed is found to have a military use.
From memory, one of the key phrases in the SCOTUS opinion is "absent evidence, we cannot say." Then it went on to say how the decision below should be reached - if the evidence showed the weapon to have a military use, then the NFA was afoul of the 2nd amendment.
Miller was never even tried, let alone convicted. His indictment was quashed on 2nd amendment grounds.
The National Firearms Act — as applied to transporting in interstate commerce a 12-gauge shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches long, without having registered it and without having in his possession a stamp-affixed written order for it — was not unconstitutional as an invasion of the reserved powers of the States and did not violate the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
My understanding is that the lower court had declared that short barreled shotguns had a military use and therefore could not be taxed (restricted) under the NFA. The US Supreme Court remanded that District Court decision which had supported the legality of short barreled shotguns. The USSC upheld the NFA.
The notion that such shotguns had no military use was a central (and erroneous) determinant.
that's different...
Yeah. Sure. Just like the new indefinite detention bill will only apply to "terrorists".
No, you can bet this stuff is coming to a SWAT team near you. The US government has now placed dissenting (non liberal) American citizens on the top of its enemies list. Janet has essentially said so in public.
Hoist the M26 combat shotgun to your shoulder, square your stance, lean toward the target standing before you and blast away. With a yank of the straight-pull bolt action, the weapon is ready for another. Now take a look in action: http://youtu.be/cGDq3c0Hv7c
In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense.
US v Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
So, "[absent] any evidence," the Supreme Court "cannot say" that a short barrel shotgun " has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia," or "is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense."
The Supreme Court reversed the judgment below. It had to in order to provide a venue for further judicial findings. If the judgment had stood, there would be no indictment, and no basis for the court below to hear any argument or obtain any further evidence.
The "absent any evidence" part is important, because it is the reason why the Supreme Court could not say. Court now cherry pick that part out, and roughly assert that SCOTUS had evidence and said that a short barrel shotgun has no relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, is no part of military equipment, and use of a SBS cannot contribute to the common defense. That is an incorrect read.
Thanks
I skipped the 12 pack and went to a full keg.
FlyVet, it’s been a long time but I think you’re correct. To be honest, I only fired the thing on a range. I seem to remember that it would fire consecutive rounds if you held the hammer back.
The thing that impressed me we when I went to the armory and was issued the wepon, I held it to the sky and pulled the trigger and to slide action opened the chamber.
I grew up hunting small game with a 12 & 16 gauge and had never seen a pump action so smooth.
FlyVet, it’s been a long time but I think you’re correct. To be honest, I only fired the thing on a range. I seem to remember that it would fire consecutive rounds if you held the hammer back.
The thing that impressed me we when I went to the armory and was issued the wepon, I held it to the sky and pulled the trigger and to slide action opened the chamber.
I grew up hunting small game with a 12 & 16 gauge and had never seen a pump action so smooth.
Sorry for the double post!!
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