User manual for the US Air Force M6 survival carbine.
The M6 carbine was a simple weapon, with a .22 long rifle or .22 Hornet rifle barrel on top and a .410 shotgun barrel on bottom. It was inexpensive, reliable, accurate, durable, and well-suited to keeping a pilot alive if he crash-landed in hostile territory and had to fight off predators and kill wild game for food.
Unfortunately, the military M6 carbine had a barrel length of 14 inches, and the completely arbitrary restrictions of the National Firearms Act requires rifles to have a minimum barrel length of 16 inches and shotguns a minimum barrel length of 18 inches, so when the Air Force declared the M6 obsolete and tried to sell them as surplus the ATF jumped all over them and forced them to scrap most of the M6's.
User manual for the US Air Force M6 survival carbine.
The M6 carbine was a simple weapon, with a .22 long rifle or .22 Hornet rifle barrel on top and a .410 shotgun barrel on bottom. It was inexpensive, reliable, accurate, durable, and well-suited to keeping a pilot alive if he crash-landed in hostile territory and had to fight off predators and kill wild game for food.
Unfortunately, the military M6 carbine had a barrel length of 14 inches, and the completely arbitrary restrictions of the National Firearms Act requires rifles to have a minimum barrel length of 16 inches and shotguns a minimum barrel length of 18 inches, so when the Air Force declared the M6 obsolete and tried to sell them as surplus the ATF jumped all over them and forced them to scrap most of the M6's.
User manual for the US Air Force M6 survival carbine.
The M6 carbine was a simple weapon, with a .22 long rifle or .22 Hornet rifle barrel on top and a .410 shotgun barrel on bottom. It was inexpensive, reliable, accurate, durable, and well-suited to keeping a pilot alive if he crash-landed in hostile territory and had to fight off predators and kill wild game for food.
Unfortunately, the military M6 carbine had a barrel length of 14 inches, and the completely arbitrary restrictions of the National Firearms Act requires rifles to have a minimum barrel length of 16 inches and shotguns a minimum barrel length of 18 inches, so when the Air Force declared the M6 obsolete and tried to sell them as surplus the ATF jumped all over them and forced them to scrap most of the M6's.