Dumb question?
- Thread starter damullet
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I don't "know", but my guess is that for legal purposes, perhaps because of:
-export paperwork
-importing paperwork requirements for sale in Canada
-registrations of controlled items
-prevent confusion with US-made USGI M-14's, which were select-fire receivers. Note the same thing with Springfield Armoury, which calls theirs not "M-14's" but M1A's.
Usually most countries when making a service rifle in their own country, give it a different designation than the original design...such as the C7 (Armalite AR-15 originally back at the start), C1 (Fabrique National FAL-Fusille Automatique Legere, Rifle Automatic Lightweight, called an L1A1 SLR in Britain- Self Loading Rifle)
It helps to differentiate where said firearm was actually manufactured.
So...some will read M305, others M-14S, AFAIK
-export paperwork
-importing paperwork requirements for sale in Canada
-registrations of controlled items
-prevent confusion with US-made USGI M-14's, which were select-fire receivers. Note the same thing with Springfield Armoury, which calls theirs not "M-14's" but M1A's.
Usually most countries when making a service rifle in their own country, give it a different designation than the original design...such as the C7 (Armalite AR-15 originally back at the start), C1 (Fabrique National FAL-Fusille Automatique Legere, Rifle Automatic Lightweight, called an L1A1 SLR in Britain- Self Loading Rifle)
It helps to differentiate where said firearm was actually manufactured.
So...some will read M305, others M-14S, AFAIK
