LMAO: Speedline Rifle is a ‘Semi-Semi-Automatic’ and Australians are FREAKING OUT!

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The UK’s Daily Mail is sounding the alarm about a dangerous new weapon:

A rifle promoted as having an ‘unequalled rate of fire’ of military-style ammunition is now freely available to hundreds of thousands of Australian gun owners.

The Verney-Carron Speedline can fire six shots in about three seconds and is being sold with little restriction because of what its opponents say is a legal loophole.

That “military-style” ammunition is otherwise known as .308 Winchester, originally designed and sold as a hunting round. And they’re calling the new gun a “license to kill.”

Verney-Carron calls the Speedline a “semi-semi-automatic” rifle. When a round fires, the bolt locks back in the open position. The shooter can then release it with the flick of a thumb, chambering a new round and putting it back into battery, ready to fire another shot.

Aussie gun controllers aren’t amused. Neither is the Daily Mail’s Stephen Gibbs.

The Speedline .308 was specifically designed for Australia and is being cynically promoted as a ‘semi-semi-automatic’ weapon, a description coined by its critics.

Because the ‘revolutionary’ French-made rifle is not technically semi-automatic it has been deemed a ‘Category B’ firearm along with bolt-action centre-fire rifles, requiring only the second-easiest type of licence to obtain.

That video was from 2017. So why all of the hyperventilating now over the new .308 version of the rifle that’s due to hit Australian stores in October?

The .308 Winchester ammunition which the latest Verney-Carron rifle fires is the commercial cartridge from which the military 7.62 round was derived.

OMG! That’s the same round AR-10 rifles fire! And the FN-FAL!


(Yes, .30-06 packs more ft.lbs of energy than .308, but don’t tell the Aussies that.)




https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/v...i-automatic-and-australians-are-freaking-out/
 
Or like riding the safety

Wonder if you could make one that the safety came on after each shot (unless you held it down). Would then require two actions to fire, and not be semi-auto? Although the bolt trick is probably more lawyer proof for now.
 
I was thinking about this the other night while reading a post on binary triggers - what if the bolt was released by resetting the trigger? So fire, bolt locks back, reset trigger, bolt forward, fire, etc.
 
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I'm surprised the Remington 760 hasn't been reincarnated. Mod it to take Magpul or M1A mags and it's good to go. Pump action goodness.

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I'm surprised the Remington 760 hasn't been reincarnated. Mod it to take Magpul or M1A mags and it's good to go. Pump action goodness.

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We used to own several 740 / 742 in aught 6.

Learned real fast that when barrel got Warm it would shoot 1 o'clock High @50 on a 10" target .

We also became proficient & intimate in T-Shooting Jams, yes we figured out the issue of jamming.

For what it is, it's a good decent stand by, IMHO.
 
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I'm surprised the Remington 760 hasn't been reincarnated. Mod it to take Magpul or M1A mags and it's good to go. Pump action goodness.

Remington-760-Gamemaster-30-06-w-Leupold-Vari-X-II-3-9x40_101119105_9139_B7FFA75E94A2DF57.JPG

The 7615 was a thing for awhile. .223 and took AR mags.
 
We used to own several 740 / 742 in aught 6.

Learned real fast that when barrel got Warm it would shoot 1 o'clock High @50 on a 10" target .

We also became proficient & intimate in T-Shooting Jams, yes we figured out the issue of jamming.

For what it is, it's a good decent stand by, IMHO.

I call them mule's... cause built on an 870 20 ga frame.. they act just like one... KICK like hell, but get the job done.
 
I found some 10 rd magazines on Ebay that actually feed properly in my 760 carbine. 10 rounds of .30 M2 ball creates quite the fuss on both ends of the carbine!
 
The Brits have been using 'lever release' ARs for several years now, same function as the rifle in the article.
 
I suppose that our friends in the land down under and the UK are forgetting that a few decades ago we arrived with our "rapid fire" auto and semi-auto weapons to save their rears from being kicked by the Japanese and Nazis, respectively.
They welcomed us and our dangerous weapons then with open arms. But now such weapons are terrible things and dangerous and should not be allowed in their society.
Well, maybe next time we let them slug it out themselves, we can keep our firearms and stay home.
 
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