Chapter 1330 Redstone Gun Workshop
The actual manager of Cowboy Town is not an official like the mayor established by the government. But a sheriff whose family has been sheriff in this small town for seven generations.
Eagle Country is in one respect highly developed. A modern country, but on the other hand, this is actually a rather feudal conservative country.
If you really go deep into the Midwestern countryside of Eagle Country. Then you will find that the hereditary system is quite common in this country. Especially the magistrate, a position with considerable power.
The composition of grassroots police forces in the UK is completely different from that in China. In China, even grassroots policemen who go deep into the countryside, they all belong to the sequence of national civil servants.
Soldiers who graduated from the police academy or were transferred from the army passed the assessment and were selected before being able to serve.
But in Eagle Country it's completely different. In many small towns with hundreds of thousands of people, their sheriffs are not directly appointed by the government. Rather, they are directly elected by urban residents. In some small towns, mayors (mayors) are more powerful and powerful, and they will also directly appoint sheriffs and sheriffs.
This shows the completely different power systems between China and India. Let alone a city in China, even if it is a township or a town, and a township mayor or mayor, it is absolutely impossible to skip the public security system and directly appoint the head of the local police station.
And what's even more powerful is that. Among the chiefs at the township level in Eagle Country, their rights are actually quite large.
For example, in a small city of 10,000 people, its sheriff and sheriff have the right to appoint the police under him. To put it simply, the sheriff can make whoever he wants to be a policeman in this small town, and he says that whoever can't be a policeman can't be a policeman.
No examination by the national government is required. That's exactly what the sheriff said.
In addition, the power of jurisdiction possessed by the magistrate itself is also great. Almost everything you can think of in Eagle Country is in the hands of the police. Therefore, the sheriff of the small town belongs to the real local power faction.
Although they all belong to the Eagle State Police Agency. However, when the higher-level police organization issues orders to it, the lower police officers may not necessarily listen. Because their salaries come from the taxes of small town residents. Their duty is to be responsible for the townspeople.
Therefore, in such a division of land and power, the position of magistrate is probably the most hereditary position in the entire Eagle Kingdom.
The smaller the place, the more serious the hereditary magistrate. It is not uncommon for a single family to hold on to the post of Sheriff for decades. Maybe not necessarily from father to son. But there is a high probability that people from the same family and the same surname will inherit this position.
And so is Cowboytown. There are only about 300 people in this small town. But it is quite supernumerary with 5 policemen plus a sheriff.
For a small town, such a police configuration is obviously too much.
But they have maintained this configuration. Because Cowboy Town is a little bit different from other small towns.
Most of the other small towns in Eagle Country do not have any particularly prominent industries. Especially the central region. The main industry in most rural towns is growing food.
Everyone knows that Eagle Country is a vast and sparsely populated place, and it is a large plain. A farmer often owns hundreds of acres of land. Growing food can also earn a lot of money, at least able to squeeze into the middle class.
But Cowboy Town, unlike other rural towns that depend entirely on agriculture for their livelihood, has a big business here.
That is the famous Red Stone Gun Workshop in the central region.
Eagle Nation is a land of guns. Especially in the central part of this sparsely populated area. There are so many guns in this place that the government is too lazy to control them.
And a large number of gun owners have given birth to a unique gun culture belonging to Eagle Country.
Just like the modified car industry that is prevalent in Eagle Country. In Eagle Country, you can even buy a whole set of modified car brand car shells, suspensions and various interiors. Then find a chassis and engine by yourself, and put them together. After installation, you can go directly to the vehicle management office to get the license plate.
There is no so-called illegal modified car here. And the same modified guns here abound.
There are good and bad guns. Especially production guns. He is not necessarily suitable for all gunners. For example, some people like to put the center of gravity forward, some people like to put the center of gravity on the back, some like to have a larger grip, and some like to have a smaller grip.
The force of the spring is also different, and the force of the trigger is also different. These can all be customized according to personalization.
And according to each guest, your preferences and uses are different. For example, the guns equipped by some people are used to hunt crocodiles, and some people are used to shoot elk in autumn.
Others are used by the Border Patrol to deter illegal trespassers. In many cases, the weapon systems sold on the market cannot meet the needs of so many different tones. Therefore, the gun modification industry in Eagle Country is extremely popular. And it is one of the few physical manufacturing industries that belong to the high-wage class.
The Redstone Gun Workshop in Cowboy Town is not just an ordinary gun modification workshop, he does not mean that kind of informal small workshop model.
On the contrary, this is an extremely formal factory, and they have even obtained the qualification of the national secondary weapons contractor. In simple terms, they can participate in the National Guard, State Police Department, and Department of Defense small arms bidding activities.
They have their own brand of flame arresters. Widely acclaimed. It is a niche brand, but many professional snipers like to use it.
And Hongshi Gunfang has its own factory with 100 employees. It can be said that almost everyone in the entire cowboy town works for the Redstone Gun Workshop.
They have welders, they have CNC machines. There are professional fitters. And maintenance workers and so on.
And when Mike and Raymond were sent into the cowboy town under half escort, the two of them slowly saw clearly the two heavy machine guns standing on the watchtower.
To be precise, it should not be considered a heavy machine gun. It's a Vulcan cannon.
"Isn't this a military-grade weapon? How did they get it?" Raymond couldn't help complaining in a low voice when he saw these two big killers standing on the watchtower.
It stands to reason that it is impossible for weapons of this level to flow into the civilian market.
And Mike's answer cleared his confusion: "Look carefully, this is not the Vulcan cannon used by the military. Look carefully at the barrel, it is a three-barrel barrel, and it is a 12.7 mm caliber barrel. A gun of this specification You can't see the sharpshooter."
Mike said so. Raymond took a closer look and it really looked like this. But this made it even more confusing.
"This doesn't look like a Vulcan cannon produced by any weapon factory. I haven't heard of any weapon company that has produced a three-barreled revolver Vulcan cannon of this specification."
"This is not produced by any company, but redstone marksmanship modified by themselves. They used the Browning heavy machine gun as the basis, equipped with a motor, and wrote the program. This is the three-ring revolver Vulcan produced by themselves. "
Raymond's eyes widened when he heard this: "You mean that a small marksman in this small town is capable of transforming and producing such weapons?"
"That's right. The National Guard in our state, as well as the National Guard in the neighboring state, have purchased a batch of their modified three-barreled Vulcan cannon on a small scale. The price is much cheaper than the original Vulcan cannon." The price of one is only 30,000 yuan. The price is less than half of the Vulcan cannon. But the power is not small. I have seen their firearms power demonstration a few years ago. Armor-piercing incendiary bombs, even infantry fighting vehicles can't handle his shots."
Hearing what Mike said, Raymond was even more speechless: "Such a powerful gun modification workshop is actually in this kind of place. Why don't they move to other big cities? That way the business is better and more convenient."
Mike chuckled and said: "The reason is very simple. The McRae family who opened the Redstone Gun Shop has lived in Cowboy Town for hundreds of years. Since 100 years ago, the sheriff of Cowboy Town has been the McRae family. .To this day, the sheriff of this small town is still held by the McRae family."
"They're talking one way or the other here. Even if the county police or the state police come, they don't want to save face."
When Mike said this, Raymond understood, the county magistrate might as well take care of it now. The arms business is very profitable, but at the same time the risk is not small.
Except for those arms groups with huge capital. Other relatively small non-governmental gun modification companies and shops selling guns. More or less have to clean up the relationship with black and white.
The official affairs are easy to talk about, but the affairs of the underworld are quite troublesome. The McRae family lives in a cowboy town, looking very aggrieved, living in a small village.
But here they want guns, guns, and power. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the local emperors here.
If they go to a big city, they may indeed be able to contact more business and make more money. But I am afraid that there will be more anger. The risks will also be greater. It's better to be king in this small village.
"Although this is a small town, the industry is very complete. They have two five-axis CNC machine tools and 15 turn-milling machine tools. There are also laser cutting, argon arc welding cutting, water jet machine tools and other equipment."
"And what I do know is that they have a bullet assembly line."
After Raymond heard the call, his mouth almost fell to the ground: "Such a small factory, they can actually produce bullets by themselves! You know, even India can't do this. India is the third largest country in the world. They can't even produce bullets." It can't be produced!"
"It's not about producing bullets, but assembling bullets. They have the ability to produce bullets by themselves, of course, relatively simple copper bullets or steel core bullets."
"And they can buy a large number of bullet primers directly from large companies, and they have various calibers. They can buy off-the-shelf bullets or use a lathe to turn the bullets on their own and install them on the primer, so they can get a lot of cheap bullets. "
Listening to Mike's introduction to Raymond, he felt that this Redstone Gun Workshop was unfathomable. This is not an ordinary workshop for making firearms. This is simply a warlord's arsenal.
And Mike's father actually wanted the two of them to come here to preach, and recruited people here to join the Doomsday Salvation Cult. Raymond calculated the combat power and logistical capabilities of the Doomsday Salvation Church today, and it seems that they are not as powerful as this cowboy town.
Raymond thought about these miscellaneous things and was dismissed. Step by step, they were escorted to the tallest building in the town—the headquarters of the Redstone Gun Room.
This is a 5-storey house. Already the tallest builder in Cowboy Town. Unlike most rural buildings that use wooden structures, this is a house with a reinforced concrete structure, and from the outline of its outer walls, it can be inferred that this house uses a lot of reinforced concrete, not thin paper studio. That thick wall might be able to block the bombardment of the main battle tank.
There is not much decoration on the exterior wall. There are still some burrs of concrete. The exterior walls of cement gray make the whole building look strong and full of strength.
This is the headquarters of Hongshi Gunfang, and also the production base of the entire Redstone Gunfang. There are more than 300 people in the whole town, 100 of whom work directly in it. The rest of the people basically start the corresponding service work around the redstone.
It can be said that everyone in this small town obeys Redstone and the McRae family.
In the conference room on the third floor of Red Gun Workshop, Mike and Raymond met the highest leader of Cowboy Town.
There is no president here, and the two in front of them are good at speaking.
The one on the left is wearing a police uniform and a badge. Colin McLean is the current eldest son of the McRae family.
And now next to Trin McRae was a slightly shorter, but shrewder looking man. He is the current owner of the Redstone Gun Room. He is also Colin McRae's first half brother. David McRae.
On the way here, both Mike and Raymond saw many products produced by Redstone.
Needless to say, the three-tube runner Vulcan cannon. They also added a stable shooting platform based on the AK47 and expanded the machine gun AK47 with 100 rounds of drums.
The AK47 is powerful and has a huge recoil. Redstone Gun Workshop simply transformed it into a single-person mobile, but opened the foot as a holder when shooting, and used the AK47 machine gun as a class machine gun.
This solves the accuracy problem caused by recoil.
In addition, there are short-barreled shotguns made by themselves. And high-powered single-shot rifles. Wait for the weapon.
From various perspectives, Raymond felt that the two of them might not be able to persuade the Cowboy Town group to join his group, because their strength was much stronger than his own.
However, in the conference room on the third floor, apart from meeting the McRae brothers. They also saw an Asian face standing next to McCree. It seems that the status is not low.
This made Mike and Raymond very curious.
The first to speak was Colin McRae, who was the elder brother and the most powerful person in the whole cowboy town.
"I know the purpose of your coming to join your Salvation Cult, right? Seriously, if Mr. Lin Changjie hadn't greeted our two brothers before, the two of you might not even be able to enter the town." When Colin McRae said this, he pointed to the smiling Asian-faced man next to him.
"However, since Mr. Lin Changjie talked to us about your Doomsday Salvation Cult when you came here, my brother and I are now interested in hearing about your sect's teachings and what you want to do. And what kind of things do you want to talk about? conditions of?"
Mike and Raymond looked at each other, and then both looked at the man named Lin Changjie. He smiled but didn't make other expressions, as if he was hiding something.
The two only felt that what happened today might be a little weird. But it doesn't matter, Mike still has an artifact on him. Convincing Hongshi Gunfang is always a matter of trying.
: Ask for a monthly ticket~