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Obviously bullpups are much shorter to use in confined spaces, but I don't believe that's really the point.

I believe that it's really a fashion statement and that these conversions are done as in a way a status symbol. You're listening to war college, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the

front lines. Here am your host Matthew Gault. If there's been a

recent throughline or theme on this season of War College, it's that war has

changed and it's not just conflict but the way we cover conflict.

Increasingly, people are using open source intelligence and social media to study and

report on the changing nature of war.

Calibro Obscura is one of those people.

He's an independent arms researcher interested in non-state groups in the Middle East, North Africa, and

Asia.

He is extremely online and he knows more about AK variants and homemade mortar rounds

than anyone else in the world.

Should follow him on Twitter at Caliber Obscura

and visit his website at Caliber Obscura.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

It's great to be on.

All right, so let's get some basics out of the way.

How would you describe what it is that you do?

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