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/
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/