this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
139 points (94.8% liked)

A Comm for Historymemes

1509 readers
414 users here now

A place to share history memes!

Rules:

  1. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.

  2. No fascism, atrocity denial, etc.

  3. Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.

  4. Follow all Lemmy.world rules.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
139
Br*tish moment (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm gonna guess the first one. The second one looks faster to mass produce cheaply for people being thrown into a meat grinder.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You would be correct

As it turns out, their timing with what became the L96A1 could not have been better, as after a few small orders by the Special Boat Service, Special Air Service and the Sultanate of Oman, as well as a few police sniper units in the UK, the rifle was entered into a competition to replace the venerable Lee-Enfield L42A1.

The Ministry of Defence wanted Accuracy International to submit an entry, but when they won handily, suddenly the three men in Mr Walls’ shed were charged with producing over 1200 rifles and all of a sudden needed to prove they could make that many weapons.

What they did was rent out a workshop for a day and filled it with all of the guns they had made in the shed up to that point, claimed the rest of the staff were out to lunch and later found out when they went to eat with the requisitions lieutenants that the inspection was purely to ensure the operation was not just three men in a shed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I based my guess almost entirely on a meme.

1000007708

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Now that would've been an awkward chuckle