New Toy

[Peter Laidler]

They were made from finely ground car tyre rubber compressed into a shaped mould so I was told by the agent for the film prop bloke. Then some school kids painted them for pocket money during their school holidays using a flexible paint used to paint lorry curtain sides!

[nzl1a1collector]

They want £195.00 for those rubber rifles.

I don't know who put the rifle together so a mould could be made, but the plonker put the backsight on backwards.

[tankhunter]

I wonder if they do Chinese AK 47 type 56's?....Dey Sound 'Rubbery'!............Groan!

[Sentryduty]

There are rubber AK47's based on the milled receiver molding out there.

The barrel is a piece of rubber covered plain steel rod with a shiny brass "cleaning" rod under it. There is a small aluminium cocking handle and front sling point, and a steel rear swivel which is the only moving part.

There is some model and manufacturer's number in the buttstock that I can't recall. I do remember that a one or two popped up on the Collector's Source website a few years ago and they listed for a surprisingly high price.

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AK47 Military Training Rifle - Collector's Source, Military Collectibles Online

[Peter Laidler]

While we're on the subject of rubber repros, it's ironic that in Oz and NZ plus a few other Countries, that you can have an accurate rubber non firer that LOOKS real and could scare the crxx out of someone whereas you can't have a skeletonised rifle that doesn't even look real!

[nzl1a1collector]

The authorities have our well being in mind, someone might replace all the real sectionlised parts on a skeletonised rifle and make it work again, that's why they are so dangerous and should be kept in a safe.

if you added original parts on one of those rubber rifles.... you would get a ...tire

[Sentryduty]

While we're on the subject of rubber repros, it's ironic that in Oz and NZ plus a few other Countries, that you can have an accurate rubber non firer that LOOKS real and could scare the crxx out of someone whereas you can't have a skeletonised rifle that doesn't even look real!

On that tack, in Canada you can have a deactivated formerly "real" gun, no licence, permits or storage obligations, but non-firing replica guns of any sort are deemed a "prohibited device".

[tankhunter]

And it's all because Governments lack a vital ingredient in Running a country..................It's called: Common Sense!.......

[Flying10uk]

I remember owning one of the plastic Airfix F.N. rifles as a child and as money was tight it had to be second-hand from a jumble sale (Yard Sale). The only problem procuring the rifle by this method was that most of the accessories were missing including the plastic bullets. I managed to get over this slight issue by making my own "bullets" out of wooden doweling, 1/4" dia. I believe. The rifle was found to fire this home produced ammunition at an alarmingly high velocity, for a child's toy. I remember it as being quite a large toy gun but probably not full size. Sadly, I don't still own this item but wish I did.