However, Funding for the enterprise was solely American. Lieutenant Colonel Amos Golan, along with another senior officer, Asaf Nadal from the elite units of the Israeli Defence Forces are the co-founders of Corner Shot LLC, an American manufacturing company headofficed in Miami, but maintains offices in Israel. The APR is for 5.56mm AR pistols, the 40 is for a 40mm grenade launcher, and the CSM is fitted for a pistol. Each model is fitted for different type of weapon. The device currently comes in three configurations the Corner Shot APR, Corner Shot 40 and the Corner Shot CSM. With the Corner Shot system, hands remain on the weapon at all times permitting rapid return fire from seated, standing and crouched positions with significantly less risk for the shooter. They can perform surveillance, sight in and shoot successively presenting no human target for urban terrorists or criminals. The Corner Shot armoured device is much more ergonomic and permits SWAT, Special Forces and military in 15 different countries to ‘see’ around corners. The Corner Shot weapon system’s objective is similar to the rustic periscope rifles from Australian Sergeant Bill Beech’s WWI butt stock adaptation, used frequently in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign, but that is where the similarity ends.īreech’s WW I ‘gadget’ was a raised stock rest and trigger apparatus coupled with a periscope for trench warfare, cumbersome but effective when wedged into sandbags, positioning the ANZAC ‘marksman’ down in the trench, out of harms way, aiming through the periscope.
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