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Secret Service Wants New Sniper Rifles
The new modular rifles will be able to quickly switch among four different cartridges and will feature a two-to-three-pound trigger pull.
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I would like to discuss/hear opinions on the technical aspects of the USSS Request for Proposals for a new rifle.
Not politics or anything that belongs in The Pit
I personally found the chamberings interesting, the possibility of a carbon wrapped barrel, required folding stock, and the requirement of a Tbac can should make people here feel warm and fuzzy
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Quick TLDR is ...
-Commercially available in serial production
-Must be quick change barrel (no barrel vice)
- Camberings and barrels for 300WM 26", 300PRC 27", 300NM 27", and .308 24"
-*Offered* as Left or right hand
-No heavier than 16lbs empty with no accessories
-Stainless steel barrels, but carbon wrapped stainless is acceptable
-Single-stage trigger that needs to “be free of both perceptible creep, as well as perceptible over-travel” and a “trigger pull [that] shall not measure less than 2.0 pounds, nor more than 3.0 pounds.”
-Whatever ‘chassis’ the barrel and the rest of the action sits in needs to have a folding buttstock that can also be extended or collapsed, and that comes with an adjustable cheekpiece for comb adjustment. It also needs to have a mixture of Picatinny-standard and RRS-Lock (also known as R-Lock) accessory rails for attaching scopes and other accessories
-“The rifle shall be supplied with a Thunder Beast Arms Magnus-SR 30 caliber Suppressor, with secondary retention non-timed brake (SR NTB),” the contracting document says. “If the rifle fails utilizing the requested suppressor a Thunder Beast Arms Ultra 9 shall be installed and tested. If the rifle fails with the Ultra 9 then the submission will be eliminated.”
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