EM-1 & EM-2 Enfield 280 Cal Assault Rifles

[AmEngRifles]

By the way, there is a great little video on You Tube on the EM-2. I am not sure how to get that onto this post, but if you go to You Tube and look up EM-2, assault rifle, you should find it.

An interesting observation about the video is that when they show the rifle, doing a live fire demo, which includes a magazine change, it appears to have a barrel that abruptly ends just an inch or two in front of the forestock. That is in direct contrast to every other image of the EM-2 I have seen. Even the model that later comes out of the "sand test" has the original, longer length barrel. Wonder what THAT is all about? I thought it was just low quality video, but if you watch carefully, you will see what I am referring to.

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[EM2Dave]

I know this has sort of died off, but I recently got in contact with a firm in the UK that can build you an EM-2, but there's a slight problem. The price that I was quoted was for the EM-2 was £12,000 - £15,000 - and yes, you can get a car cheaper than that! The firm I was telling you about is D & B Militaria. The two videos to have a look at are below:

- - history and disassembly
- - firing

Hope this helps guys!

[mrclark303]

That's very interesting, I thought they only dealt with deacs?

Are we taking inert or live and what caliber?

[philb]

db told me hes got sect 5.......dos that cover to manufacture too ??

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we should of adopted the EM2

[mrclark303]

db told me hes got sect 5.......dos that cover to manufacture too ??

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we should of adopted the EM2

As Peter has mentioned before, the design was still somewhat immature and over complicated. I am sure it would have come right eventually, but circumstances conspired against it.

However, thanks to Fn and and Commonwealth refinement, we ended up with the L1A1, the best service rifle ever.

[browningautorifle]

we should of adopted the EM2

You sort of did in the SA80...

[CINDERS]

65 years old and tired how many of us own 100+ year old Lee Enfields that even though they may be a tad tired still could if pushed do the job sometimes progress has a finite use by date!

[Brit plumber]

I’m not sure D&B have the skill to build one, more like Dan knows a guy who can. They’ve had Welrods in the past and I think they also got some of the repro Delisle carbines.

[Strangely Brown]

The missed opportunity of the EM2 was the calibre rather than the rifle!

[mrclark303]

The missed opportunity of the EM2 was the calibre rather than the rifle!

Very true Mick, they were really onto something there, an AR15 chambered in that calibre would be quite a rifle!

I've had the privilege of handling and examining the EM2. its a very interesting design and shoulders and points beautifully. However, if you place one side by side with an L1A1 and compare the brilliant simplicity of the L1's working parts, its a no brainer.