Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
It raises the question that among the collecting fraternity, are these Enforcers, with a pedigree (or lack of, depending on your point of view....) like that, real enforcers or just, er................ what's the word I'm looking for............... But you get my drift. Something akin to having a Ford Mustang assembled from bits by a garage. Maybe that's a bit unkind but you know where I'm coming from.

I feel myself digging a hole here so I'd better quit!
Theres usually an obvious difference between a genuine factory rifle and something thats been assembled elsewhere - not least because a factory rifle has of course been through a rigorous inspection process. Given that there is also a blurring between "elsewhere assembled" Enforcers and a series of reasonably accurate fakes that are also in circulation, I'd never advise anyone to pay the full premium price unless its a 100% genuine example. Better to spend about 15% of the price on an identical-yet-gunsmith-built Enforcer clone, and save the 85% balance for a nice specimen of something else (e.g. you can get a decent No1 MkV and still have change for another old smellie...).