Loads of photos of French police rocking Mini14's and I even saw one policeman carrying an open sighted, bolt action rifle with an almost fully wooded fore end. Are they still using old school Karabiner rifles?? At least the Tier One fellas had newer gear. Great video of the scumbag terrorist going down very hard in what looked like mainly 9 mm fire. He got hit with a flash bang square in the chest but still made it to the door where it appeared he got hit with perhaps a large caliber round because he got knocked down hard. Well done to the French teams, sounds like they have many more situations to come.
Mini 14 in France
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When you throw a couple of idiot terrorists against GIGN, my bet would not be on the AK carrying scumbags.
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Some people have this disposition that every modern French gun is comparable to a Chauchat.
The mini-14 was sold to many police forces around the world. Some are FA.
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Yes, interesting...I saw a couple of Mini14s in all of the coverage as well, but never really gave much thought to what I was actually seeing. And speaking of things that can be seen, do you have a link to the particular video you describe? The only footage I have seen is distant and quiet.
Both guns have pretty poor reputation. The G2 seems to have fixed a lot of the complaints but as far as I know the F1 is still the most common rifle in service outside the navy. I could be wrong, I honestly couldn't care less about their military.
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France's real army is the Foreign Legion and, I think, they still use the FAMAS. GIGN uses HKs.
I was also surprised to see the minis.
Kool pictures. They kinda look like M1 carbines to me instead of mini14s though. But they are the 14s. It seems the police there aren't very standardized with what firearms they use from force to force and from patrol cop to swat team members. I thought the Beretta M12 sub machineguns were particularly neat. It was the first time I have seen them before.
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I have been to Paris a few times in the past. I have only seen Famas being carried around (usually all over the places)
I would guess that after the shootings they are getting any gun they have on the streets to act as a deterrence.
I would guess that after the shootings they are getting any gun they have on the streets to act as a deterrence.
There was some video footage on the CBC of officer's working the action on mini 14's.... Presumably making them clear while unloading. There was a lot of footage of various agencies..... I'm not sure which group had the mini 14.
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^^^ from the looks of the above guys, they must be the back up to the back up.
Is that how they are taught to carry their rifles?
Is that how they are taught to carry their rifles?
Yup. The first couple of pictures I thought they were M1 Carbines instead of Mini14s because of the stock. It wasn't until Mediuspower posted his picture that I could make them out as Mini 14s.
