M72 law

[rob love]

Many many of the CF vehicles had the brackets for them, but I suspect that outside of perhaps Germany, 99.9% of the brackets never held anything.

While there was a subcaliber kit available for the LAWs, it was not the kind of thing you would use on ex. And to have a spent tube issued would have been useless, it would have required the crew to make a rocket noise and go bang at the end........ While I can attest to having to go "bang bang bang" during a few austere excercises with rifles (and it was always embarrassing) , I never saw it done with M72s.

There were two training versions of the M72 that I saw: spent tubes that were painted blue and stencilled "dummy" for classroom training, and spent tubes that were set up for the sub-cal version used on the ranges to cut costs. I have some portions of the blue painted ones out in the shed.

The ferret could have the M72 bracket mounted on the outside of the hull. I can't recall if it was on the spare tire side or the opposite.

There was a time that I recall Crown Surplus in Calgary had a barrel of spent tubes for sale at some reasonable price. But that was a long time ago. Any "salvage" is supposed to be turned in these days, and the ammo techs take care of the destruction. So possession of a spent tube dated in the past 20 years would be hard to justify it's legal acquisition. While perhaps it is not a weapon, it seems the police always love showing them off to the media when they capture them during their various raid.