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On the recordMay 16, 2017
Since the end of World War II, the richest and most technologically advanced country in the world has sent its soldiers and marines into combat with inferior small arms. So inferior, in fact, that thousands have died needlessly.
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Dan Sullivan
Republican · Alaska

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Highlighting the inadequacy of U.S. small arms in combat.

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