English Police Officers

[Peter McGarvey]

* Mark Murray <mark at grondar.org> [2003-06-20 17:42:45 BST]:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> > Paul Robinson <paul at iconoplex.co.uk> writes:
> > > Oh, and in Manchester, some specially trained police have been walking
> > > around with MP5 machine guns, on and off, for at least the last 10 years
> > > that I remember. Something to do with a couple of Irish lads who keep on
> > > trying to kill loads of civilians in offices and shopping malls. But let's
> > > not get into that (5,000 dead so far), the point is, they have the same guns
> > > the British Army carry. And they're scary.
> > 
> > Unless I'm very mistaken, the bulk of the British Army carries the
> > Enfield L85 assault rifles, not the H&K MP5 submachine gun.  SMGs
> > aren't appropriate for general field use; they are deployed by special
> > forces, SWAT teams and other units that are mostly involved in short
> > close-quarters engagments.
> 
> Correct, but they call it SA80 or SA80A.

Or, more often, useless piece of junk.

But IIRC, the SAS do use HK MP5s.


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