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New Zealand Army Conducts "Show and Tell" Primary School Tour, Gives Kids Hands-On with Assault Rifles, Military Equipment
The New Zealand Defence Force is conducting a rather unique campaign: They are taking their war materiel – including select-fire assault rifles – to primary schools in New Zealand, to teach kids about leadership, values, army life, and – of course – weapons. As reported by Manawatu Standard News:
Muddy Girl Reaches Another Platform… This Time UTAS Shotgun
The inexorable march of pink camouflage marches on. Its latest victim (er… “partner”) is UTAS who has implemented it on its UTAS bullpup shotgun. Its announcement includes the usual drivel of how “aggressive” the Muddy Girl Camo is on the UTAS “attitude” driven design. Ay carumba, can someone spare me the marketing-speak?
KRISS/Sphinx Sister Company Nano-ID Develops Gun Tracking Technology
Over the weekend a concerned Swiss man emailed Rob Curtis ( Gear Scout) and I about a story being run on TV and online by the Swiss National Television. The story said that Sphinx Arms (part of KRISS Arms) had developed a novel gun tracking technology that could be embedded inside guns and which would allow individual weapons to be tracked from the air. The technology seems to be some type of RFID technology, possibly used in conjunction with some type of microstamping.
