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Due to the possible use of the M4 by downed aircrew as a combat weapon, the military-issue soft point ammunition in .22 Hornet carried a prohibition against this on the cartridge boxes: "Under no circumstances is the ammunition to be used for offensive or defensive measures against enemy personnel.
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barring the use of expanding bullets in warfare. It was later self-determined by the USAF that exigent circumstances and self-defense would have exempted soft point ammunition from that provision.
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This ammunition is provided for use with your emergency survival rifle for the killing of game for food under emergency survival conditions only." This was to comply with the
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as part of the survival gear stored under the seat of American military aircraft. It was designed to give downed aircrew a survival weapon for foraging wild game for food.
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bolt-action M265 sporting rifle, adapted to a sheet metal frame with telescoping wire buttstock, a 14-inch detachable barrel chambered for
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Firearms parts catalog : the reference guide for antique, obsolete, military and current parts and accessories
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Stevens M23D .22 Hornet sporting rifle. The M4 weighs approximately four pounds and with barrel detached and
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The Big Book of Gun Trivia: Everything you want to know, don't want to know, and don't know you need to know
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Original US Property marked M4 Survival Rifle with military issue .22 Hornet ammo
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was a .22 caliber bolt-action rifle developed after
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Index

M4 carbine

Rifle
United States
USAF
Harrington & Richardson
Barrel
Caliber
.22 Hornet
Action
Bolt action
World War II
Harrington & Richardson
.22 Hornet
Savage
telescoping stock
Hague Convention
M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon
Armalite AR-5
USAF
Canada
United States
List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces
List of firearms



M14 Rifle History and Development
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