{"id":1475,"date":"2015-01-12T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/01\/12\/french-mouse-guns\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:57","slug":"french-mouse-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"French &#8220;Mouse Guns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11046,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.forgottenweapons.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/mini-1.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260116210710\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.forgottenweapons.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/mini-1.jpg&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 02:15:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 15:31:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 11:46:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 11:46:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11047,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.shootingillustrated.com\\\/index.php\\\/35231\\\/the-mousqueton-a-m-d-frances-mini-14&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.shootingillustrated.com\\\/index.php\\\/35231\\\/the-mousqueton-a-m-d-frances-mini-14&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11048,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.forgottenweapons.com\\\/french-police-mini-14&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.forgottenweapons.com\\\/french-police-mini-14&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIn the reports of the terrible events this past week in France, we&#8217;ve seen the Police Nationale armed with carbines that for all intents and purposes are Ruger Mini-14s.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mini-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mini-1.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">From Forgottenweapons.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Yes but not quite.<\/p>\n<p>As these two stories make clear, this carbine is the Mousqueton A.M.D. in 5.56. Mousqeton is French for carbine. The carbine was made in France under contract from Ruger.<\/p>\n<p>There is quite a bit of history about the Mousqueton in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingillustrated.com\/index.php\/35231\/the-mousqueton-a-m-d-frances-mini-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shooting Illustrated story<\/a> by Martin Morgan including which agencies have used it.<\/p>\n<p>Ian at Forgotten Weapons goes more into the mechanical details of the Mousqueton in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/french-police-mini-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the reports of the terrible events this past week in France, we&#8217;ve seen the Police Nationale armed with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1575,2387],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-france","tag-mousqueton-amd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}