Afghans Rediscover The Lee-Enfield

[Peter Laidler]

Hi Louis, we've brought back some of these old Lee Enfields. Not just any old Lees, but I selected the BEST from several container loads. I'd be so bold as to suggest that the best would politely be described as, er........, I'm trying to think of a polite word for utter shot-out heaps of worn out, never seen a drop of oil, **** poor, butchered, er ....., specimens!

That's only the several hundred that I've seen so far. What a Pathan tribesman would call a total refurbishment differs very slightly from what you and I might consider to be a FTR! And it's TRUE, there is an ENFEILD factory in Pakistan. I have seen it marked on a rifle!