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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Gas Venting
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:00:42 +0200
According to Pantherr, at 11:32 on 22 Sep 99, the word on
the street was...

> First off, the Ranger Arms SM-3 is a joke if you're out in the field rather
> than in the sprawl. The modular design is great for a sniper-on-the-go,

With that suitcase, that's obviously who the weapon is intended for.

> >I guess this thing is some kind of sound suppresser that has gas vent
> >holes cut into its forward (furthest away from the barrel) chamber(s), so
> >that gas is vented up to counteract the recoil, but only once it has
> >reached a subsonic velocity.
>
> Isn't that what a gas vent is *for*? :)

The question was "how does the combined gas vent/suppresser work?" This is
my theory of how it might work.

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