Marstar--Type 03 (QBZ-03) would you consider importing these too?

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Try as I might, I can't get excited about bullpups.This however looks very interesting.
John, any chance you could get these? This I would buy!

Type 03 (QBZ-03) assault rifle, partially disassembled

Caliber: 5.8x42 mm
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length: 950 mm (725mm with butt folded)
Barrel length: n/a
Weight: 3.5 kg
Rate of fire: ~650 rounds per minute
Magazine capacity: 30 rounds

Type 03 (QBZ-03) assault rifle is most recent development of Chinese state arms factories. For various but unpublished reasons the bullpup Type 95 / QBZ-95 assault rifle was apparently found not entirely satisfactory in PLA service. Therefore it was decided to develop a new 5.8mm assault rifle of conventional layout, which will provide necessary competition and backup to its older bullpup brother. In some respects this new weapon, known as QBZ-03 (Type 03 / 2003), is reminiscent to the experimental Type 87 rifle, which was developed in mid-1980s for testing of the new 5.8x42mm DAP-87 cartridge. It is not yet known if Type 03 rifle will enter widespread service with PLA troops to replace or complement Type 95 rifle.

Type 03 (QBZ-03) assault rifle is gas operated, selective fired weapon, which fires 5.8mm cartridge of indigenous design. Basic action of the Type 03 rifle is based on the older 7.62x39 Type 81 assault rifle, with similar rotating bolt locking and short-stroke gas piston. The gas block, which is integral to the front sight base, contains a 2-position gas regulator. Muzzle of the barrel contains a combination flash-hider which also serves as a grenade launcher for rifle grenades. Receiver is made from stamped steel, and unlike earlier designs consists of two parts, upper and lower, which are connected by two push-pins. Upper receiver hosts the barrel and entire bolt group; lower receiver hosts the magazine port, trigger unit, pistol grip and folding shoulder stock. Small safety / fire selector switch is located on the left side of the lower receiver, above the pistol grip.

Skeletonized shoulder stock is made from polymer and folds forward and to the right to save the length. Standard sights are of open type, with hooded front post and flip-up type diopter rear. Additionally, every Type 03 rifle has a proprietary scope rail on the top of the receiver, which will accept a variety of day and night scopes.

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as80-e.htm
 
FraserJ20 said:
type 95 used to be 5.8, why not an export version of this one as well?
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I guess if they think some foreign military is interested then it is worth the time to redesign the whole thing. It costs money to redesign something so selling that pesky 1000 rifles may not be worth the time....well, do you want to be the guinea pig for the new CHinese 5.56 type 03 export version. Thank you - I will let someone else do the beta. At least the type 97 is beta-ed by someone else already.

The type 97 in 5.56 was designed for export to Burma - but those guys took the sample and made a knock-off out of it out of sheet metal. Nice to be at the other end of the stick. :dancingbanana: Payback is a real biach. hahah.

Personally, I don't think the type 97 is a very serious weapon, anyone who put a safety at the back of the stock should stay in the committee - but if the price is good like under 800 bucks, it is worth the money for a toy and familization.
 
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I don't mean to spoil the party here, but I wonder if these rifles would be treated as AKs(prohibited), assuming that the Chinese did decide to make some for the Canadian civilian market.
 
Well, only the omnipotent RCMP techs can answer this last question... I don't believe it could be classified as an AK varian on the spot; I've read somewhere about the lineage of the type 81, blends features INSPIRED by both SKS and AK but yet aren't the same either... Now just look at the gas system, bolt carrier, fire controls & split receiver build; nowhere the same as an AK; except maybe the recoil spring assembly... But if every rifle with a hooded front sight tower and a curved magazine are AK variants... :stirthepot2:

The real problem about this rifle if by chance it makes its way towards our shores, is the ammunition/caliber matter.
 
UCSPanther said:
I don't mean to spoil the party here, but I wonder if these rifles would be treated as AKs(prohibited), assuming that the Chinese did decide to make some for the Canadian civilian market.
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When you see people with 3000+ post and several years on the board skimming over something like that its probably because its wrong.:wave:
 
I don't care what its lineage is I'd buy one in 5.56mm. Looks unique enough to me not to be caught as a "variant of" anything. Maybe if the type 97s don't work out...
 
Does look more like a sig than ar18 or Ak, be interesting!, but ammo got to be 556 for ease of availability, 5.8 would be hard to come by...
 
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