- or sitting at the air-conditioned Creech AFB Las Vegas GCS console* flying your Predator or Reaper Drone armed with Hellfire Missiles while seeking "insurgent activity" from above Iraq ..
or perhaps you are at the helm of your Ohio Class guided-missile submarine caring for your cargo of 154 Nuclear Cruise Missiles.
Whatever - You are not likely to be stressing about which caliber or brand of handgun .. what capacity magazine or what color plastic rail you might fit to your so-called "Assault Rifle".
Small-arms are of much reduced importance to the worlds mainstream MILITARY - as killing and destruction go High-Tech. - The biggest remaining military small-arms use is with specialist interdiction teams sent in to extract or eliminate political targets - when an efficient remote brisant shattering might be diplomatically embarrassing.
*Strangely the remote Ground Control Station Console word (console) also means: " to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort"
- Logical really - that military remote killing leaves you feeling remote and with little grief.
The big 21st century scene for hand portable arms is Sporting & DEFENSIVE - as in Law Enforcement and civilian self-defense. - And anywhere in the world -that is traumatic face-to-face stuff that hopefully none of us experience.
Marty K.
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