UK Royal Marine unit ditches the SA80 for Colt C8

Jane's Defence Weekly ^ | 3rd March 2016 | Tim Ripley

[Reverend Wright]

I don’t think so. The Kitchener factory is quite small (110 people) and I believe it was built to manufacture FN’s.

The WW2 Inglis factory was right in downtown Toronto. It was huge with thousands of people.

The hi powers were only a small part of what was produced there

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[jospehm20]

I like ARs and I like AKs. They are obviously different but both are much fun. I have a couple of 1911s but I do not care for them as much as I like other platforms.

[jttpwalsh]

Colt filed for bankruptcy protection, not the same as liquidation. It allows entities (people or businesses) to seek protection from their creditors, during a court supervised reorganization of their finances.

[LowOiL]

Thanks for the info on Colt.

[jttpwalsh]

You are welcome :)

[the scotsman]

Well, we did invent the bullpup.

[MasterGunner01]

There's nothing wrong with a bullpup, but it takes some doing to get it right and there are some fundamental problems in getting a good trigger pull. It also helps if the rifle is NOT select fire. I remember one bullpup design that had a great trigger and it got its good pull from the rails for the trigger being on rollers. Unfortunately, I can't remember who made the rifle.