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Old 05-11-16, 15:29
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Terry Warner
 
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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.

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The training ones I remember were spent tubes for practising the drills. The closure step was always risky, because the plastic front sight has to be held folded down. Invariably the teenager doing the drill missed the housing, and smashed the sight to pieces.

Fired tubes are supposed to be broken or burnt. I have seen plenty of old tubes that were never properly destroyed. But like Rob says we have many police and Crown Attorneys who know nothing about firearms except A) they are bad when owned by civilians, B) should only be available to the Police, and C) less of A is good and more of B is better.
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