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This week's episode combines one of the world's most recognisable and elusive firearms with an interesting idiosyncrasy of firearms design: the wooden mock-up. No, we don't have a real G11 (Bundeswehr if you're watching, you know where we are), Jonathan examines this sales replica, which is an accessioned and important item of our collection in it's own right.
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00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Mock-up
02:16 - 'Firearm' Details
07:44 - Archival Documents
10:35 - Why Mock?
11:00 - Fate of the G11
11:55 - Outro
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