GUNS Magazine December 1958 - Jeffersonian

A~ -UP-TO-DATEThis is the only.of-its-kind Gun Encyclopediowhich, since 1951, hos been serving those whosevocation or av ocation inclu d es Firearms • • •Collectors, Deolers, Gunsmiths, Librories, Manufacturers, etc., t hroughout the world, a re findingthe Firearms Directory more and more valuable.Police Labo;atories from Scotland toSingapore use the fir earms Directory!Since its inc ep tlon, The Fire a rms Direct ory ha sgrown eac h yea r by mea ns of additions andrevisions, to the extent that it now weighs morethan seve n pounds!PROFUS ELY ILLUST RATE DTHO USANDS OF ILLU ST RATIO NS!The unique main ten ance ser vice, consisting ofadditio nal new ma teria l a nd revisions, so lves t he"o bsolete book" problem - The FIREARMSDIRECTORY IS ALWAYS UP TO DATE, ANDTHE MAINTENANC E SERVICE KEEPS ITTHATWA Y; there is nothing else like it in the Firea rms.. .r HO USA NDS OF ILlUSTR ATI U N~!The unique ma intena nce ser vice, c onsisting ofad ditiona l new material a nd revisions, solves t he"obsolete book" problem - The FIREARMSDIRECTORY IS ALWAYS UP TO DATE, ANDTHE MAINTENANCE SERVICE KEEPS ITTHATWA Y; there is nothing else like it in the Firea rmsfield.THE FIREARMS DIR ECTORY IS DIVIDEDINTO SIX TEEN SEPARATE SECTIONS :BOOKS a ndPUBLICATION SCW BS and RANGESCOD ES andPROO f MA RKSDEALERSFIREARMS,MISCEl LAN EOUSG lOSSARYGUNSMITHSUNITED STATES: $22.50IDENTIFICATIONLABORATORIESLEGALMANU FACTURERS a ndIMPO RTERSPATENT SPISTOLSRIFLESSHO TGUNSTECHN ICAL NOTESAppropri a te mat erial, conta ined in theabove cla ssifica tions, is cont inually addedto - for example, the " PISTOL ATLAS"(pp. 34-35, FIREARMS IDENTIFICATIO N,J. 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We have legend s and some evidenceof human perf orm ance with a six-shooter ; itmig ht be well to investigat e the human"fast draw" potential with a rifle. We shouldstudy speed with accuracy, .develop atechnique, and seek ways of teaching it.If we can discover the real problems, wemay find it easier than man y now supposeit to be, to school men in the needed skills .::\Iost American youths have no trouble inlearning to dri ve a car in traffic, a skill whi chsimilarly requires qui ck ap pra isal, decision,and execution to ni cety.Some of th ese pr oblems are being studiednow, and it is to be hoped that others willfollow. There is always dan ger that aninclination to accept th e "s tatu s quo" andother human weaknesses will interfere withvigorous pro secution, or th at pr eoccupationwith more spec tac ular in terests, snch aspush-button warf ar e or space hardware, willcut off resear ch fund s. It will be espec iallyeasy to put off " until we find time" thestudies of motivat ing rewards whi ch willinduce young men to choose th e rifleman'srole and seek proficiency in it. Th ese mightinclude extra pay and privileges, publicrecognition, or other aspects of elite status.F or it has come as a surprise to many that inth e field of modern combat, the rifleman maybe a deciding factor. Th e rifle in th e AtomicAge is possibly more important th an everbefore. Even among th e read ers of amagazine devoted to guns, th ere will be somewho ha ve qu esti oned the combat worth ofwhat seems, at first gla nce, to be a horseand-buggyweapon. Such thinking fails tograsp that th e rifle alon e is not th e" weapon," but rifle-plus-man, with his senses,his intelli gence and his great versatility, ar e,~ho ha~ e qu esti oned the" combat 1vorih" 01what seems, at first gla nce, to be a horseand-buggyweap on. 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Approvedand successfully again st a hostile as faraway as he ca n see him. Th ese projectil esgive no warning, as do most area weap ons.Th ere is no pr otection against th em, unl essit would be pr ayer, for they easily penetrateall body armor known to date. A hit , even ina body extre mity, is usuall y incapacitating.But , it may be arg ued, an A-bomb willdo all th ese things on a gra nd scale. Thismight be tru e if th e enemy would cooperateby huddling int o convenient, economicaltar gets, as civilians do in cities. But everyarm y in th e world is studying th e art ofdispersion, with rapid ground and airmobility to overcome its disad vantages whenthe ri ght moment comes. Th e mod ern conceptof battlefield "hugging," getting so closeto th e enemy th at he dares not use hisnuclear weapons, can be likened to a boxer'sinfighting. All armies have calc ulated to ani cety th e size of th e zone whi ch wouldconstitute a "direc t hit"- where nobodywould survive- and studied the remarkablysimple expedients for survival outside thatzone.Th e fact is that combat nuclear weaponsare in th e class of artillery, air bomb s, andhand grenades. Th ese "Conventional weapons"also have not usually been decisive inperforming real th e mission of an army,whi ch is to seek out th e enemy and destr oyhim. Even if we used th em in tr emend ousnumbers, as artillery in World War II or ourtotal air superiority in Korea, dusty andshaken but whole men will continue to crawlout of th eir holes in substantial numbers forth e final, decisive, close-range ac tion.Th at is where the rifle comes in. With dispersion,air drops, grea ter night operationsin cluding infiltrati on, th e chances in creaseenormously of meeting individu al or smallgroups of enemy face-to-face, and shooting itout on th e spot with what you're carry ing.u T1lat -I~ ' ~lier-e '{fie"rifle '~om'es"- in~- Wi th\l l~:persion, air dr ops, gr eat er ni ght operationsincluding infiltration, the chances in creaseenormously of meetin g individual or smallgroups of enemy face-to-face, and shooting itout on the spot with what you're carry ing.You won't have time for th e Iuxury of "buckfever" then. Only a continuing, op en-mind edevolution of small arms training systemscan pr epar e th e American rifleman ~for th e task of defense. ~GOVERN MENT SURPLUS _UNUSED ALL METALI! ~y~'cli~~~J