From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Questions of great importance (Steve, Jon, RA:S people especially)
Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:05:49 +0200

According to Rand Ratinac, at 23:57 on 6 Sep 99, the word on
the street was...

> Now I'm guessing that a free-floating barrel is what's used with rifles
> that break down. But that could be a very bad guess.

It's a very bad guess :) A free-floating barrel is one that is only fixed
to the rest of the rifle at the breech (rear) end. For the rest of its
length, it does not connect to the weapon at all. This is to improve
accuracy by allowing the barrel to resonate when a bullet is fired through
it, without getting interference from the points where the barrel and the
stock are connected in other weapons.

As you can see, putting a grenade launcher onto such a barrel would stop
if being free-floating, and thus reduce accuracy.

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