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Springfield-Armory has announced its 1950 New Product Launch, in which they are rolling out 19 new products for 2016, and giving away 50 guns. Learn more and enter to win. The first is this XD-S, now in .40 cal.
Great powers have often used smaller conflicts as test beds for new weapon systems, and also as dumping grounds for obsolete machinery. The Spanish Civil War was one such conflict.