Replica SA80 (LA85A1)

[mdhome]

Just bought a replica SA80 , the standard British army assault weapon for about £64. The gun is mostly harmless and only shoots plastic bb's; Thats providing I dont do something stupid like walk down the road and point it at people or try to holdup a bank. My girlfriend thinks its obscene and worries, but I'm as happy as a pig in shit with it. I would have preferred the real thing but they are limited and expensive.

Regards MD

[GNEP]

I have some experience with the real things, and also the bipod-bearing LSW variant (Light Support Weapon). They are good weapons in theory - and nice to use, WHEN THEY WORK PROPERLY. Prone to jamming, and general crappiness.

They ARE extremely accurate though. So much so in fact, that they had to fix a flaw that when on fully automatic and resting on a bipod, a whole magazine would go through the same whole in whatever you were shooting. Not very useful a lot of the time. So they "built-in" some creep.

Still, is it really legal to have a replica?

[mdhome]

Not sure if it is still legal to have them but they are openly on sale in some stores as are a variety of other designs. I also believe (rightly or wrongly) that the design flaws may have been removed by HK.

Regards MD

[Fat Tone]

So what are you gonna do with it? Any chance it could be modified to be more dangerous?

[mdhome]

Hello Tony
Not sure what I am going to do with it except keep it for testosterone purposes.
As far as I can see nothing can be done to make it more dangerous except possibly try to replace the plastic BB's with lead ones. Its only a replica in the sense that it looks and feels like a SA80 albeit at half the weight.

[Fat Tone]

I just wondered why people like to own these things
Personally I'd rather have a prettier ornament