Function and Form

Despite having worked around firearms for most of my working life, I must come clean. From the time I left school and joined an infantry battalion, later to work as a civilian testing munitions and armament for the Ministry of Defence, and then just under an additional two decades working on a police armed response unit, I must admit that technically I don’t really know how a firearm works.

I am not alone here. Ask the majority of fighting soldiers or armed cops questions on the tactical use of the firearm, the field stripping and cleaning