M6 ASW

The M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon was a specially-made combination rifle-shotgun originally developed in 1946 by the United States Army Ordinance Corps. It was issued to United States Air Force aircrews to help forage for food in the event of a plane crash, and was designed to fit inside of the standard USAF survival kit issued to all pilots flying over uninhabited regions. The M6 is a superposed ("over-under") combination gun, with a .22 Hornet rifle barrel located above a .410 bore shotgun barrel. A firing pin selector allowed the shooter to choose which barrel would be fired. Because most b...