Israeli Tavor

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This may be a dumb question, but is the Isreali Tavor something that is available to US citizens? Looks pretty awesome.

http://www.israel-weapon.com/default.asp?catid={BE33B6E6-080B-45B8-AD85-C4E1E40D0422}
 
Nope. There was a deal in the works awhile back between Barrett and IMI to build Tavors here, but it fell through. There's a thread over in the Bullpup subforum for ARF.com's Armory on this subject about sixty pages long.
 
GCA 68, and the fact of BATFE "once a machingun, always a machinegun", so the recievers would have to be reworked for semi auto only.
 
There is currently not a civilian legal variant for sale in the US. Charles Daly was in fact going to be importing/producing them for US sales, however; CD went bankrupt a few months back and so that's obviously dead.

With all the demand for them, I would expect someone to pick up the torch in due time though.
 
Our friends up north can get them, however:

http://www.canadaammo.com/product.ph...2&cat=0&page=1
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At $3300 it really wouldn't seem like a serious contender in the market, the Canadian dollar was about even with US dollar a couple months ago when I was there last. That price does include the Meprolite red dot but even if you account for it being $600 the rifle is still more than a SCAR, ACR, LWRC or some of the other high end 5.56 rifles on the market today. The FS2000 and AUG are probably the closest competitors and both are in the $2000 range.
 
againstthagrane said:
Their gun laws probably make about as much sense as ours.
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Perhaps even less sense... our lovely government prohibited a whole raft of guns 'by name' in the 90's, but many guns that came into the country later are perfectly legal. This means, for example, that we can't have AKs... but can have Vz58s. Also, we can't have AUGs - as they prohibited specific bullpup guns, and even bullpup stocks (so the mini-14 bullpup stock is a no-no), BUT we can have purpose-designed bullpups that weren't 'named' in the prohibition order, which means we can have Tavors. Basically, they intended to prohibit anything 'scary', but they were idiots, and so we ended up with these weird laws. Oh, and our AR15s are only legal at approved handgun ranges, not in the bush... but the Tavor and Vz can go anywhere! Go figure.
 
I have to admit, I'd be almost willing to pay $3k if I could get my hands on a civilian Tavor. I'd love to have one in my collection.
 
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