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Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:24 am
by HALODIN
Nice! I've bought myself a FAL, there's nothing plain about it!
jjvc wrote:A plain old SLR for me....
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 6:31 pm
by ukrifleman
I had a mint M1 Garand for about 3 months before the ban and loved it!
(I also loved my Colt Mod 1911, Smith and Wesson Mod 39 and Smith and Wesson Mod 66, sigh!)
ukrifleman.
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:41 pm
by johngarnett
I had a Mini 14 .223. And lots of 30 rd mags plus a very good supply of 5.56. Thank you HMG! I had a LOT of fun razz
JohnG :cornwall:
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:42 pm
by HALODIN
Cool. Better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all...
I must get myself to some Eastern European country where I can shoot all of this and more!
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:20 pm
by saddler
Brand new COLT AR15A2 Sporter II - bought down in Lincolnshire. Fitted a Colt 3x scope for part of the time I had it
My first gun?
An Ivor Johnson M1 Carbine. Lovely wood stock with a metal handguard.
Still have the Lee Loader and most of the brass...as factory ammo was non-existant
Miss them both - but at least such knee-jerk laws have kept such guns out of the hands of criminals and inner city yoofs, innit bruv!!!
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 10:49 am
by NoEntry
I had. Lithgow L1A1.
Awesome gun.
Mike
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:30 pm
by HALODIN
If we could revisit that time again, my military history shopping list would be huge. I'd need at least 1 more gun cabinet. Think I'd probably go for the following in semi-auto...
1) Lewis Gun
2) MG34
3) MP38
4) FG42 (1st model)
5) MP44
6) Bren Gun
7) MG15
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:38 pm
by froggy
4) FG42 (1st model)
Halodin ? was it you the latest EuroMillion ticket winner ?
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:44 pm
by HALODIN
Yes... and if you can keep that a secret I'll buy you one too!
froggy wrote:4) FG42 (1st model)
Halodin ? was it you the latest EuroMillion ticket winner ?
Re: 1987 Semi-Automatic rifle ban
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 6:54 pm
by Andy632
phaedra1106 wrote:Started off with a 7.62 AR-10 for £250!
Not the best thing in the world but by removing a screw and a bit of aluminium bar it could be set to full auto! (not that I ever did such a thing!).
Sold it and bought a Ruger Mini-14 (horrible thing!) and was saving up for a very nice Heckler & Koch HK93 when the ban came in
I also had an AR10 and was well impressed with it, also had a Thompson 1928A1 and an M14
