Libyan inventory has surplus rifles.

[nathan]

Maybe remnants of the British after WW 2 .

 

[Robert]

Could easily be a left over, though it looks to be in great shape. Nice FAL too.

 

[USSR]

Seems to be a lot of FAL's over there.

Don

 

[nathan]

Kaddafi prefers the 7.62 Nato , more reach in the kind of sandscape they have.

 

[One-Time]

not surprisong, the ME/N Africa are flooded with WWII weapons, mostly british and as a result of later HK types

 

[HorseSoldier]

Maybe Boston T. Party is just a popular author over in Libya . . .

 

[451 Detonics]

I bet if you looked around enough you would find muzzle loading muskets as well....

 

[onebigelf]

Note that the FAL guy has proper trigger safety discipline. Just sayin....

John

 

[USSR]

Note that the FAL guy has proper trigger safety discipline.

Yeah, then they start celebrating by shooting up in the air. Don't those Arabs believe in gravity?

Don

 

[MrFox]

We worry about how much ammo to have sitting around when the majority of people can run down to walmart and get the basics.

.303 is getting expensive so I reload for my enfields, but how does that guy keep feeding his?

 

[unwise11]

That enfield might be a .30-06 or .308 but I don't know a thing about mil-surps.

 

[janobles14]

wow libyan rebels have FAL's? wonder where those might have come from? i feel quite certain that the taliban probably had an influx of M4's and SCAR's once upon a time! gotta love indigenous overthrow support!

 

[Phaethon]

Seems pretty unlikely, most of the conversion work on Enfields was done with No. 1 MK 3's from Ishapore, if I remember right. If it was firing a modern unrimmed cartridge it would probably have a redesigned mag.

I guess they just have a bunch of crates of old .303 sitting around. God knows what kind of condition that's all in.

 

[Big_E]

Remember, that the UK, France, Germany and the Ottoman's have been in Africa, especially North Africa for a very long time. There is no telling what kind of firearms you will find over there. Especially now in this swell of rebellions.

 

[AethelstanAegen]

Those old Enfields certainly shouldn't be dismissed. The US gave a ton of them to mujahideen fighters during the Soviet-Afghan War. The Afghans apparently really liked them as they often had greater reach than the AKs used by the Soviets/Communist Afghan troops and were capable of piercing the Soviet body armor of the period.

As others have already noted, north Africa saw a great deal fo fighting in World War II and I'm sure there are some pretty hefty stockpiles of surplus rifles and ammo remaining there.

 

[HorseSoldier]

We gave Enfields to the muj in Afghanistan before we got serious and started buying boatloads of AKs and ammo for them. Most anyone who could ditch an Enfield for an AK did so as soon as they could.

 

[longshot7.62x51]

i found an enfield in Iraq that had been rechambered for 7.62x54r was kind of a schey job though it fired fine

 

[RUT]

>>then they start celebrating by shooting up in the air<<

Really, with ammo supplies being tight these idiots are blowing it off in the air. DUH!!! Guess that's why they call them "third world nations".

 

[Cosmoline]

Some more DIY rebel weapons. I love the FN (?) being used by a guy in an office chair as AA fire

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/diy-weapons-of-the-libyan-rebels/100086/

There's also a captured FN 2000 with grenade launcher, which must mean some pretty recent exports by the Belgians to the flaky barbarian.