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Ha ha! Shows you what you know! Who is Ranting?

The first Rem 788s off the line were chambered in 22LR and 22 WMR. They were taken to Remington's secret testing ground at Fort Apache. The US Army bought 1000 to be used with their interdiction teams in Vietnam and Chicago.

You must be young.

Walter Cronkite was arrested for asking questions about Remington's "mystery rifle". David Brinkley almost took his job at CBS because of it.

Now, the Nylon 65 was contracted by Remington because they had to feed the European market. They decided it would be chambered in 5.6x15R because not many Euros spoke English, but almost everyone spoke Metrical. They had to stop making them however, because of the Cold War. The Russians stole the design and started making knock offs for the Spetsnaz.