Steyr AUG

It was the bad guys gun from Die Hard, so they banded it. A lot of the firearms they banded, there wasn't that many of them in the country to begin with. I think there was around 400 AUG.
 
Rebel Rouser said:
It was the bad guys gun from Die Hard, so they banded it. A lot of the firearms they banded, there wasn't that many of them in the country to begin with. I think there was around 400 AUG.
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Its a great rifle, good feel and you can change barrel with ease. Mags are impossible to find. Not that you can shoot them, I not sure about 400 as there is just about that in all of the 12.4 together. I would guess a lot went underground. Where did that number come from? Im trying to remember thier original price. 1700.00 or 2700.00 Anyone remember? The black ones where police carbines but the ones shipped to Canada had the longer green AUG barrels on them. Full thread vs the one inch 16 inch that they were suppose to have. The green ones have the bayonet lugs
 
Sold mine

Black AUG-SA. Came with left and right handed bolt, 3x 30 rnd mags and 2x 42 rnd mags. Imported bu Ruko, and purchased at the firing line in Edmonton while on leave from ISCC at the PPCLI Battle Schoo - summer of 1991l.

The rifle was adequate, but the optics sucked. Sucked dog #### actually. It had a circle reticle with no center dot. Talked with a friend in Austria, who explained that post WWII arms export regulations prohibited them from exporting the rifle with a 'militarized' optic. Picture an EoTech circle with no center dot and you will realize the kind of worthless mechanism for a consistent point of aim I am talking about.

Making matters worse, the optic is integral - meaning you could not trivially replace it without buying a new receiver. And as those receivers are all prohibited as well? You can see where I'm going with that.
 
Jonty said:
Can somebody give me a logical reason as to why these are prohibited?
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Well there's your problem...
Firearms law is made by politicians that are afraid of firearms.
Imagine the clusterfukc if Air regs were drafted by people that are afraid of flying.
 
sprint said:
Sold mine

Black AUG-SA. Came with left and right handed bolt, 3x 30 rnd mags and 2x 42 rnd mags. Imported bu Ruko, and purchased at the firing line in Edmonton while on leave from ISCC at the PPCLI Battle Schoo - summer of 1991l.

The rifle was adequate, but the optics sucked. Sucked dog #### actually. It had a circle reticle with no center dot. Talked with a friend in Austria, who explained that post WWII arms export regulations prohibited them from exporting the rifle with a 'militarized' optic. Picture an EoTech circle with no center dot and you will realize the kind of worthless mechanism for a consistent point of aim I am talking about.

Making matters worse, the optic is integral - meaning you could not trivially replace it without buying a new receiver. And as those receivers are all prohibited as well? You can see where I'm going with that.
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The idea with the 1.5 optic with circle was that if a man size target fit in it, that was 300m. Do you remember what the price was back then? They were well balance rifles. Interesting quote on how many rifles are in system. Wonder what the total 12.4 count was back in the day. Its a small group to say the least
 
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The triggers weren't great on them, some of the Irish ones had the circle reticle with a cross hair in the centre. Others had what we called the donut reticle. The glass on the A1s was Swarovski. The reason for the 1.5 times mag was that a you could shoot with both eyes open and avoid tunnel vision.
 
No sense why!
Why is the ak47 prohibited, the fal, the g3? no sense but hollywood decisions based on how movies make a gun look evil.
 
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