Sterling assault rifle

[BioPace]

Must be.........seeing as how that's stamped right on the receiver. There's no such thing as an "assault" rifle,remember? There goes that theory.LOL

There's plenty of assault rifles. There's not so many assault "weapons".

 

[-[Crosshair]-]

Sterling manufactured a few thousand and several thousand kits for assembly by Singapore, who modified the production version slightly.

Singapore used them to replace the m16a1 when they didn't want to pay Colt licensing anymore.

It's an ar18 with ar15 trigger group.

Nobody actually wanted the SAR-80, not even Singapore who made them to originally replace their M16S1s. Sterling originally designed the rifle but later sold the rights to CIS so there are really not a lot of Sterling ones out there. CIS made around 20,000 for the Singaporean armed forces but it was quickly forgotten and they kept their M16S1s, because the soldiers still liked them better, until they designed and built the SAR-21 when CIS was bought and transformed into ST Kinetics. Around 80,000 SAR-80s are in the wild, according to the internet.

The stocks on the SAR-80s are extremely fragile and are really easy to break, along with the handguards. I have had the pleasure to fire a full-auto, authentic Singaporean SAR-80 and do a complete project on it. I would not want one at all... It's a cool collector's piece because they are actually quite uncommon (especially a Sterling one) but the main selling point of these rifles was that they were an extremely cheap AR-18 design for poorer countries to be able to purchase and equip their armed forces with, which almost nobody ended up doing in the end.

On the other hand, they are very reliable and are good shooters but also quite heavy for what they are (around 8.2 pounds).

 

[DVX]

I can appreciate the historical significance of this rifle, but I need to be honest. That is one fugly rifle.

 

[gunplumberr]

crosshair is correct about the fragile furniture, but the Somalis liked ripping butt stocks off everything also.....everyone of these things worked. I test fire all the SAR 80's in this pic and they all ran perfectly

 

[Ohno]

@gunplumerr - Can you tell me what that rifle is on the left edge of the photo with the pistol grip and bipod?
Did you get to test the browning 30cals as well? Other than the location I would imagine that to be a pretty fun job.

 

[gunplumberr]

@gunplumerr - Can you tell me what that rifle is on the left edge of the photo with the pistol grip and bipod?
Did you get to test the browning 30cals as well? Other than the location I would imagine that to be a pretty fun job.

its an italian Breda Model 30 a POS light machine gun
We were still using the Browning 1919 (C5A1) then....so yep I used them alot

 

[Sorbz62]

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[lawn gnome]

I need help finding the link, but I did read that there is an Italian company refurbishing SAR80s that have been surplussed by either Slovenia or Croatia and is selling them on the european market.
Modofied to be semi auto for the civilain market, so modified and prohibited to us.
I have no idea of the cost, the barrels are supposed to be rather good.

It does make me wonder what they cost and if the Nodak Spud lowers fit on to the SAR80 uppers?
If they do, then what would the classification be?

Gunplumber and Crosshair, thank you, I am feeling so jealous.
I always wanted to play with one.