What is the best manually-operated assault rifles and carbines in the UK-today?

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Just walk into WHS tear the airgun section out and offer to half:evil:

Nah... in all fairness I like the airgun section as it informs me about all the new toys coming out.

Back on topic:

Anyone remember the IBUS 5.56mm, I used one at Bisley about 3/4 years ago, great fun, my local RFD just sold one that I had been eyeballing.
 
Oh,and I really hate It when I am in WHSmith's Bexleyheath branch,because you get so many people giving you filthy looks,when they see Gun Mart,Target Sports and Shooting Sports-in your hands-whilst queing up to pay for your magazines.Even Combat and Soilder of Fortune magazines,get up some peoples noses,like extra-strong powdered-mustard.:mad:

But I just laugh at them anyway and put my copy of Mens Health,on top of my magazines anyway.:neener: :) :)

As for pump-action centrefires and semi-auto sporters in centrefire calibres,blame the shooting associations and the shooters,by not making them popular enough,or buying enough of them-in 1988/1989-and allowing the old farts in the Tory party to turn their noses up and ban them-by saying that they were unnessesary weapons.

Anyone remember the IBUS 5.56mm, I used one at Bisley about 3/4 years ago, great fun, my local RFD just sold one that I had been eyeballing.
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Yes, I saw a review of it by Pete Moore of Gun Mart,in the April edition of Gun Mart-in 1999.It looked like a brilliant bull-pup rifle and I have yet to personally acquire one.
 
MP5 Straight Pull

Good evening everyone.

I have been searching the internet for months looking for a UK leagal MP5. I have just stumbled accross you lot talking about what Im after.

Just to confirm them... Is it Cotsworld Arms who do a straight pull MP5? If so has anyone got any contact details for them?

Thanks for your time,
Shaun
 
sterling180, one of the guys at my club runs a Ruger M14, GT shooting in Surrey had 2 a few months back for sale but I haven't seen a springfield.

ShaunSPP5 PM sent.
 
Why anybody would want a semi-auto mini 14 is beyond me, let alone a straight pull one
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Okay Fosbery,could you give me an explanation,as to why you think that the M14,isn't worth buying-because Pete Moore,stated in Gun Mart that along with the AR-15s,it is one of the most reliable rifles,for PR matches-as well as being one of his favourite rifles-as well.:confused:
 
Hmmm, I don't think that you guys are talking the same language ?

Ones a Ruger mini14 .223/7.62x39 (not known for great accuracy) and the other is an M14 Former US Army Rifle - 7.62 NATO ?
 
You said Ruger M14, right? As far as I know Ruger have never made an M14/M1A so I assumed you meant Mini-14 which is renound for poor accuracy.
 
Ruger are selling a manually operated Mini 14 here.
You can also get manually operated M1A-type rifles, though they don't seem nearly as popular as the AR-15 based ones.
'Back in the day' we had no problem buying M14s, they weren't as hyper about them here as BATF.
 
BTT :)

Not sure this ever came a conclusion, but anyone use a 7.62x39 AK, I'm looking at one at the moment and at under £400 at the mo' seems like a better bet than £1000 worth of AR that won't see the light of day from one month to the next, but don't know any one with one that I can borrow to see if Ilike it?
 
Not to change the subject to much. But since most people in here are from countries with more anti-gun laws than in the U.S., what are some way all of our countries can unite to keep the right to own firearms. Is there a way Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. could try to slow or stop the sensless united nations gun bands. In the U.S. I am already a memeber of the NRA. Just woundering, I feel its somthing that we all have to work together to preserve in all countries not just in our individual home lands. Thanks in advance for any response.
 
Handguns (except long barreled revolvers and maybe .22s in the future), semi-auto firearms other than .22 ones, are pretty much lost forever. Their was one political party that wants to give us something resembling a RTKBA, but I forget the name of the party. They were a far right wing group, not the B.N.P, but something similar.
 
The problem is the U.K never had a gun culture per se the way we do in the U.S. So when those laws were proposed, there was really no organized anti gun opposition to them. Guns have been part of our culture since Jamestown. That's just not the case in Great Britain( and most of Europe for that matter).
 
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Their was one political party that wants to give us something resembling a RTKBA, but I forget the name of the party. They were a far right wing group, not the B.N.P, but something similar.
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Yeah well, unless it was Labour or the Tories it's about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

BOT,

AK.....7.62x39........anyone?
 
You're not going to get it from the present lot. From Blair's speech yesterday, hailing the things he has banned:-

"Banning things that should never have been allowed: handguns, cosmetic testing on animals; fur farming, blacklisting of trade unionists and from summer next year, smoking in public places.
Allowing things that should never have been banned: the right to roam; the right to request flexible working; civil partnerships for gay people."
 
I think one or two got out. But they had little to commend them. The cadet officer in our club says they are insufficiently robust; the cadets are always breaking them (though that lot could break an anvil with a rubber mallet).
 
Anybody use the L98A1 straight pull cadet rifle? Were they released to the public in the UK?
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Yep, quite accurate but as stated above quite easy to break aswell.

I only know of a couple that made out and they were in the hands of armourers working at R.O. at the time and were given perrmission to build them for themselves.
 
A lot of people in the U.K seem to think full autos are easy to get in the U.S. Let me update you on laws concerning class 3, just in case you ever come over here.

Fully automatic weapons have been restricted in the United States since the National Firearms Act of 1934. The only automatic firearms available to civilians are those manufactured before May 19, 1986. Private owners must obtain permission from both the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATF) and the local county sheriff or local chief of police, pass an extensive background check to include submitting a photograph and finger prints, fully register the firearm, continually update the owner's address and location of the firearm, receive ATF written permission before moving the firearm across state lines, and pay a $200 transfer tax. This process takes approximately 6 months to complete. Additionally, the firearm can never be handled or transported by any other private individual unless the firearm's registered owner is present. Some states require state permission as well, and some states prohibit any sort of possession under any terms. Otherwise, automatic firearms are available only to police or military personnel.
 
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