From Green Meanie, to ‘three men in a shed’, to gamers running wild with the ‘AWP’ –Accuracy International and their L96A1 created the modern template for sniper rifles to this day.

Less wellknown, as Jonathan shows in this week’s episode, is the integrally suppressed variant.

Books mentioned:

Steve Houghton, 2021, 'The Green Meanie L96A1'. Swift and Bold Publishing.

Dave Walls, 2023. 'It Started in the Shed'. New Generation Publishing.

0:00 Intro
0:35 A Green Timeline
1:41 Integrally Suppressed L96A1
3:05 Exact Date of Production
3:35 Firearm History
4:50 Comparison with the Original Unsuppressed
5:43 Suppressor
10:20 Scope
11:06 History Continued
14:15 Outro

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