The EM2 Canadian bullpup rifle. Only $25,000 at Switzers Auction

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The Fully Automatic (12.2) EM2

The one and only that I have ever seen and fortunate enough to play with get some up close pictures.

This EM2 is going to auction! $25,000 starting price! Wow.

Switzers got their hands on the remarkable Bruce Strader's collection. Let's hope it goes to someone who appreciates it for what it is...

It is a one of a kind, and an important piece of Canadian history. Serial number 1.

http://www.switzersauction.com/June_1st.htm











 
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It ia a sad state of affairs when all the people that are allowed to hold these priceless pieces of our Canadian and Commonwealth identities have faded into the past.Every year another batch of guns go to the smelter just because museums have a budget or the family members feel uncomfortable having them around.I was stupid to not have kept a example of every firearm that I have owned.Once again bad advise from a expert!!I hope that all the prohib pistols and revolvers that are pre 1946 go to a family that will pass them from generation to generation.All the 12.2,12.3,12.4,and12.5 classes will slowly march into the furnace.Let us hope that we will never need them.
 
fugly dont care what the history is, even if i had the money for it i wouldnt waste it on that. sorry guys thats just my opinion and this is the internet
 
SRSA311 said:
I am at a loss for words. I never thought I would see the day that Bruce's collection would get farmed out.
Not very realistic of me.
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Unfortunately this is going to become more common as some of the premier collections in this country go up for sale.Lets face it, All of us are not getting any younger.It is a crying shame that all of our fathers and our grandfathers bringbacks are being slowly legislated out of existence.They fought for this country!!Some of the older collectors will take their place for a few more years but what happens in another 20 or 30 years?All gone!!To the smelter you go!We need to present a United front to the government to allow us to keep these pieces of history from being destroyed.One of the saddest moments I have ever seen was when my best friends Dad hacksawed his Bren into little tiny pieces and said I fought for this damn country with this and nobody will take it from me!I think it was buried with him.
 
Gawddamn, I'd love to get my grubby hands on that piece of Canadian history!!!

Unfortunately, thanks to Pierre Trudeau aka Turdeau Sr, I can't do so, even if I won next week's LottoMax.

Phucking Lieberal pr!cks!!!:mad::mad::mad:
 
Basically, it was a modular-construction selective-fire bullpup K.43 in a calibre FAR in advance of its time.

It was accurate, reliable, very nearly totally recoilless.

But it was NOT an AMERICAN development.

And THAT damned it.

The US bullied NATO into adopting the 7.62x51, which had far too much recoil impetus for a selective-fire weapon. Their hopes were that they could then arm NATO with their Garand-developed M-14.

NATO, under pressure, accepted the 7.62 cartridge but turned to the FN-FAL and later the Vorgrimmler-improved Mauser Gerat '06 which became the CETME and then the H&K-91, '93 et al.

The handful of EM-2s built in Canada partly was dispersed, the British still have a FEW.... although once it was their STANDARD RIFLE.

And that's the way the cookie crumbles.

"Not with a bang, but a whimper."

A small amount of the EM-2's heritage is to be found in the current British L-85, descended from the marriage of the AR-18 to the EM-2 and introduced experimentally as the X-64, then as the X-70 in 4.85mm, then modded to X-80 as a .223. I spent part of an afternoon quite happily ripping an X-70 (serial number 4) to pieces at Enfield, just 3 days after the first photograph was released. It was MUCH nicer than the current version. As with the EM-2 and the 7x45 (280/.30) round, the Brits should have kept the X-70 with the 4.85 and just told the US to get stuffed.

The US bullied NATO to get the 7.62 adopted and were the first to leave it..... for the 5.56. Then they bullied NATO into adopting the 5.56... and are currently leaving it for a "special purpose" combat round which is MOST reminiscent of the .280/.30....... which they ordered scrapped 60 years ago. It's all enough to gag a MAGGOT.
 
$25,000 is the "low estimate", not the starting bid... don't know wtf is up with that. Maybe trying to make people think they got a deal when it sells for half the estimate?

Pity that rifle will eventually find it's way into the smelters.
 
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