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I got this mk4 #2 about 8 years ago at a local gun show. He said it had belonged to the Toronto Police, but I do not know if that is correct. Maybe someone will know. It has a 19½ inch barrel, with nicely blued barrel and action and a very professionally mounted front sight, plus a Lyman peep. Top of the barrel has the very clear stamping of, "ESSEX." It is my favourite gun for carrying in the bush as protection for whatever.


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It resembles an EAL. If it was a police gun, for what purpose? There is bush in and around TO, but not like black bear country further north.

When I was a kid, the biggest guns the cops had were 12 ga. shotguns. The RCMP had No.4's but for drill and formal target shooting. I suppose they had them in the detachments for putting down wounded animals, but someone with another perspective will have to answer. The OPP bought a pile of FN C1A1's in the 8L series, but I don't think they had a doctrine to use them.
 
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There are symbols and quite a few extra numbers that I don't think appear on most Lee Enfields. Maybe the most significant is this symbol, OPE, with the vertical marker between the P and E. Sounds like it could be, Ontario Police something. The dealer at the gun show had three, all alike and he said, "They once belonged to the Toronto Police." Don't know.

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Nice looking Enfield, they will eventually disappear, along with the memories of those that loved them. I like the Enfields, am looking for a No 5 in outstanding condition, and of Course amint Savage Enfield. les
 
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