The Weight of Brass and Breath: How an Old Man’s Scars Rewrote the Modern Rifle Line
CHAPTER 1: THE GRAIN OF THE WALNUT “Show us what that old rifle can still do, sir.” The words didn’t bounce off the concrete overhead shield; they sort of died in the heavy, grease-thick air of Lane Four. Specialist Miller didn’t lower his M4. He kept it slung across his crisp, digital-pattern chest like a…