Lightweight Rifle/Submachine Gun

The object of this program was to design and fabricate four demonstrator weapons to be used by the Air Force Armament Laboratory, Eglin AFB, Fla., to prove the feasibility of its automatic weapon concept which utilizes the shooters arm as the gunstock. Demonstrations proved the basic concept was not only feasible but exceeded expectations. Further efforts will be made to improve trigger pull, trigger guidance, pistol grip locking, the arm rest, sighting, and to modify the design for quantity production. The origin of the stockless rifle and machine gun is described in Ordnance, American Ordnance Assoc., Sep-Oct 1970, under the title -- A Novel Survival Weapon by Dale M. Davis.