Strange Enforcer

[rgg_7]

You could check the barrel marking on the Enforcer that has the 2 line milling cut and tell us what they are. I can only suspect that the milling cuts were made to deface the receiver or rifle as it was being sold out of Police service. Can you measure the depth on the milling cut?

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[Alan de Enfield]

You could check the barrel marking on the Enforcer that has the 2 line milling cut and tell us what they are. I can only suspect that the milling cuts were made to deface the receiver or rifle as it was being sold out of Police service. Can you measure the depth on the milling cut?

As part of the research into my proposed book(let) I have contacted the various Police Forces (under the Freedom of Information Act) requesting details of what Enforcers were held by them, serial numbers, how they were disposed of etc.

The common theme coming back is as follows - I quote :

"Provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act should not in any way jeopardise the Constabulary’s aims to effectively Police the community. When dealing with pre-planned and spontaneous firearms incidents, we would not wish for those criminals or potential terrorist to be supplied with a tactical advantage over the constabulary by the provision of detailed firearm resouce data.

The information could be used to clone Police weaponry should that individual have an extensive knowledge of firearms. Should a scenario arise that these armaments are then used in committing crimes, the health and wellbeing of the general public would be placed at risk, causing difficulties for any subsequent investigations"

The fact that they disposed of them 20 or 30 years ago seems to be irrelevant.

The majority of Police forces are telling me that they Guillotined the Enforcers under Police Force policy of not letting weapons into 'civilian hands'.

I suppose (and it is only supposition) that some forces who sold off their Enforcers may have scrubbed all details except a serial number (or maybe even made-up a new serial number) to avoid the peceived 'problem' of criminals using Police weapons.

[spinecracker]

You could check the barrel marking on the Enforcer that has the 2 line milling cut and tell us what they are. I can only suspect that the milling cuts were made to deface the receiver or rifle as it was being sold out of Police service. Can you measure the depth on the milling cut?

I will get a vernier and find that out as soon as I can

As I just mentioned on the other Enforcer thread that is running at the moment, the patent number on the barrel is identical to the patent number on Alan's #134 - text, size, and location. Apart from inspection and the patent marks, the other marks on the barrel include:

Knox form on top - an s with broad arrows either side pointing in, "CR 1470" followed by the Enfield symbol then "73 6"

Just in front of Knox form on top - "1"

Under barrel, about 2 inches from receiver - "FB358"

The bolt appears to be completely original and not messed with, but would they have sold the bolts off with the scrapped wood? It is a load bearing component, after all. When they use the guillotine, don't they just cut through the entire rifle without bothering to remove any parts? According to Alan's comments above regarding getting information from polices forces, I do not think we will ever get an answer.

[Simon P]

My barrel has this marking:

PAT APPLN No 15572/73.

This is on top of the barrel just behind the front sight.

[spinecracker]

My barrel has this marking:

PAT APPLN No 15572/73.

This is on top of the barrel just behind the front sight.

Yep, that's the one.