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I've got a big piece of wood. Lethal in close combat
The L-85 as first designed (before production versions entered service), would have been good, but now, it's improved from very bad, to just bad !
The daft thing is, when the decision was made to standardise on 5.56mm for NATO, UK factories were already producing the M-16 for overseas customers, so we could have had an 'off the shelf', proven weapon, straight away, at much less initial cost, and also saved all the hassle and extra expense of trying to improve the poor quality !
Chief, et al, to remind, there is an entire thread here called: "THE GUNS WE OWN" where I and many others have posted the various guns that we own.
Here in the good old USofA the 2nd still protects our right to "keep and bear arms"
I've posted all of mine except for my latest an HK 91 the civy version of the G3A3. It fires the 7.62 X 51 shell and is essentially an M14
I also picked up a Henry Golden Boy lever action in Hornady .17cal