Quote Originally Posted by mrclark303 View Post
You are perfectly entitled to your opinion, absolutely, but stop and pause for thought for a moment, you must admit its impossible to base an informed judgment on written material (by the less well informed shall we say politely) and the raft of info out on the internet that's just plain out of date and not representative of the current issue rifle.

We have the all important Armourers perspective after all, Peter, Geoff and Skippy who have all the relevant qualifications and many many years experience between them, passed​ a solid first hand positive judgment of the rifle.

It had its issues, but like a rebellious teenager it's grown up and matured into a reliable weapon system, as good as anything else in trained hands.

Case for the defence rests...
Three decades and it has grown up at the cost of hundreds of millions of pounds when a better gun was available from day 1 and probably at a cheaper price. Then units of the UKicon army are now being issued AR's when your "new' 80 is considered acceptable.

Military guarding your Trident subs are now issued AR's, along with the Pathfinder Group of the Parachute Regiment, UK Special Forces, Royal Military Close Protection Unit and 43 Commando Royal Marines.

The prosecution rests its case.