Springfield SAR3: Info please

[PirateRadio]

What can you guys tell me about the Springfield SAR3? I found one at a local gun shop for $699. Good price? Decent gun?

I need to check and see if that gun fall under my counties AWB or if the AWB even applies to my town.

 

[Gator]

If that's the one with the steel Greek receiver, its the next best thing to a real H&K, and that's a stupidly low price. Please send me the name of this gun shop!

P.S. The Cook County AWB prohibits the rifle, so the shop must be in a home rule town.

 

[W.E.G.]

The alloy "skateboard tape" version from Springfield is the SAR-8

 

[PirateRadio]

Gator, they are in a home rule town. I just need to figure out if I am.

 

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[PirateRadio]

I'm not si sure the Heller ruling will help me. I'm in ths south subs of Chicago so I am aloud to own guns. However, there is an AWB ban for my county. I don't think the Heller ruling would overturn that, would it?

 

[MGshaggy]

Springfield had three versions of the SAR-8, a G3/HK91 clone. The first is the SAR-3, made in Greece on HK licensed tooling. Has a steel receiver and is a very good gun. Importation of these was halted in '89, and a number of them caught in customs were re-stamped from "SAR-3" to "SAR-8" (I have one or two such overstamp guns). The SAR-8 was modified to get through customs with an idiotic lump-o-steel on the end of the barrel and a thumbhole stock - but they were still being imported from Greece and basically the same quality as the original SAR-3 (albeit with slightly different features and a new numerical designation to get through customs). Springfield later introduced the US made SAR-8 with an aluminum receiver - total piece of crap.

If you can get a steel receiver Springfield SAR (SAR-3, SAR-8, or overstamp gun) thats a great price, but especially if its an original SAR-3. If its an aluminum receiver, I'd stay away.

 

[PirateRadio]

Is there a way to tell if it's a steel or aluminum receiver?

Yeah.... I know it's a stupid question....

If it helps, the gun is heavy as hell.

 

[W.E.G.]

Is there a way to tell if it's a steel or aluminum receiver?

Yeah.... I know it's a stupid question....

If it helps, the gun is heavy as hell.

The aluminum-receiver SAR-8 looks like this.

 

[MGshaggy]

Yep - check the manufacturer/importer's info on the mag well and look for the following terms: EBO, Greece, Hellenic Arms. If its a steel receiver, it should have one of those terms in addition to the Springfield name to indicate it was made in Greece and imported.