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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20978842

The PSNI use 'em. For me they are up there with the AK47 and MP5 as 'death-dealing art' :)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20978842

The PSNI use 'em. For me they are up there with the AK47 and MP5 as 'death-dealing art' :)

Also the baddies in Die Hard.

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Special Forces have used the Glock for some time now.

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Special Forces have used the Glock for some time now.

They have been allowed to pick what they need for decades. Rightly so. Though shame that this procurement has taken so long to be completed.

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I just bought a 9mm browning last week :evil:

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I just bought a 9mm browning last week :evil:

Browning was always the brand mentioned in Tintin books. Haddock had one. He was always tooled up, I suspect.

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I just bought a 9mm browning last week :evil:

Browning was always the brand mentioned in Tintin books. Haddock had one. He was always tooled up, I suspect.


:shock:

well heres pic of it :(

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I just bought a 9mm browning last week :evil:

Shoulda waited, there'll be a lot of well-kept second hand ones around soon...


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I just bought a 9mm browning last week :evil:


I bought a browning about a year ago. The Platinum Nano 75 badminton racquet....
Unfortunately I understand the stopped making racquets and are focusing on guns :(


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I used to have a Beretta 92F but handed it in some years ago

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I used to have a Beretta 92F but handed it in some years ago

I'm kind of surprised they didn't go for the 92F to be honest. Quite a lot of NATO's armed forces use them already and there's a drive to standardise equipment to help inter-operability.

Something tweaked my mind about that piece the BBC did. They said we'd been using the Browning since the '60's but I thought I'd seen evidence of them before then. Turns out it's a very, very old design indeed. The original version predates WWI and is therefore over 100 years old. I can't imagine there's any other firearm that's been in widespread use for such an extended period of time. I suppose the AK-47 might make it eventually.

Yes, it's a thing we'd all much rather we didn't have. But something that's in use consistently round the world for a century? That's a pretty special piece of design.


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It's both brilliant and scary that this site exists (found it looking for info on the '99 Mummy film)

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It's both brilliant and scary that this site exists (found it looking for info on the '99 Mummy film)

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

Bratty's new home page. :lol:

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