The famous American firearms designer Garland immediately published an article in The Washington Post refuting this assault rifle. Since 1920, Garland has been designing semi-automatic rifles, i.e., self-loading bullets, at the Springfield Arsenal. In 1929, the prototype was sent to the Aberdeen Proving Ground to participate in the selection test of the new rifle of the U.S. military, and was selected. This semi-automatic rifle uses a 7.62 mm medium-caliber rifle cartridge. Therefore, Garand's main objection was the smaller-caliber rifle and the shortening of the rifle length. In his opinion, the rifle would be greatly less powerful, and what would be the difference between it and a submachine gun, or even larger and heavier than a submachine gun, and that Bofors was just hyping up a new concept.

In addition to Garand, all the world's leading designers of small arms began to take a deep interest in this assault rifle, and of course they were divided into two factions. A small number of them supported this new assault rifle, believing that this new assault rifle not only had a novel design and broke through the traditional rifle concept, but was also very practical, in line with the future development trend of small arms, and may cause a revolution in rifle design. But most of the designers are against this assault rifle, thinking that it is an exaggeration, how can this small-caliber bullet be so powerful, let alone more powerful than a medium-caliber rifle, that is, its automatic operation is still a little new, it is nothing more than new wine in old bottles, laughing and generous!

This war of words was extremely fierce, and the two sides went back and forth, constantly publishing articles in the newspaper to criticize each other, but it was difficult for either side to refute the other, because no one had ever seen this assault rifle, let alone its technical information, and could only rely on imagination and a brief introduction to Philip's article. This protracted academic debate did not come to an end until after the closing of the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition.

However, this is exactly what Philip and Bofors want to see. As the visibility of the Stockholm International Defense Show and the Gungnir assault rifle began to increase internationally, more and more people came to consult in various ways. Even many arms dealers have come to the door on their own initiative, hoping to cooperate with Bofors and get a place at the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition. Because these arms dealers can see that this Stockholm International Defense Exhibition is indeed a good place to sell arms!

Originally, he expected that it would take a lot of trouble to invite some of the more famous arms dealers, but now he didn't need to invite them at all, and they came to the door themselves, expressing their hope to get a booth at the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition and willing to join the Stockholm Defense Forum. This made Carl happy, but at the same time kept him busy enough, because almost all of the world's famous arms dealers came.

The first to come to the door was Otto Melera, an Italian arms manufacturer founded in 1905 with its main factories in Brescia and La Spezia, which produced many weapons during the First World War until the present day. Renamed Odero TerniOrlando in 1929, the Otto Melera company produced heavy machine guns or guns for many battleships. Even in another time and space, the 127 mm and 76 mm naval guns it produced became the main naval guns of Western countries. In particular, the Otto 76 mm naval gun is the most classic and widely used medium-caliber naval gun in the world, equipped with a variety of surface ships in more than 50 countries and regions.

Otto Melella's products are actually somewhat similar to Bofors, except that one produces naval guns and heavy machine guns, and the other produces army artillery and firearms. So the natural similarity makes the two companies feel a little sympathetic to each other.

When Carl saw Albert, the representative of Otto's company, he was so happy that he forgot to put the young representative's hand, and because he was too hard, Albert gasped in pain. Karl quickly let go of his hand and said embarrassedly: "Mr. Albert, I am so excited, your company is the first to apply to participate in the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition, so I must give you the best booth and publicity, so that your products sell well all over the world!" Okay, please sit down and talk. ”

The translator translated Carl's words into Italian and said to Albert, and Albert relieved himself, although he said that Carl's hands were purple when he shook him, but it was still worth it, and if he could do a good job of the exhibition, he could be promoted and raised.

Albert hurriedly said politely: "Mr. Karl is really enthusiastic, I believe that the cooperation between the two companies will be successful." ”

As he spoke, the two sat down on the couch in Carl's office.

Karl said, "Yes! Both of our companies are mainly engaged in the production of guns, and maybe we can deepen cooperation and jointly develop new products in the future! I know that your company is unique in the design and manufacture of naval guns, and your company's participation in the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition will definitely add a lot of color to this defense exhibition, and also make this international defense exhibition worthy of its name. I have here an agreement for Mr. Albert to look at and discuss if there is any problem. ”

With that, Karl pushed a printed copy of the "Agreement to Participate in the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition" in front of Albert.

This is an agreement written in Swedish and Italian languages, in fact, the format and main content of this exhibition agreement are not much different, but the most important thing is the cost of participation. According to Philippe's proposal, the first edition of the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition will only charge exhibitors a very small booth fee, initially set at 10,000 crowns, in order to attract more exhibitors.

However, exhibitors have the option of joining the Stockholm International Defence Club, which requires a significant annual fee. Philip followed the practice of the later high-level clubs, and divided the arms dealers who joined the club into three types of members, each of which received different services. The most advanced one is the platinum member, followed by the gold member, and the worst is the regular member.

To become a platinum member, the conditions are extremely demanding, as this type of premium membership needs to control the number in order to show its prestige. The Stockholm International Defense Club has only ten platinum members, and it requires members to meet several basic conditions, including an annual turnover of more than 50 million US dollars, more than 5,000 employees, ranking among the top five in the world in major areas of weapons, and being established for more than 10 years. Platinum membership costs up to $100,000 a year, but the benefits are also very attractive, such as becoming the executive director of Gu's Defense Weekly, the right to freely publish product news and advertisements in the weekly magazine, exempting all fees from participating in the defense exhibition, automatically becoming a participant in the high-end forum of the Stockholm Defense Weekly, and so on.