Machine Gun News, Volume 10, Number 8, April 1997; The Magazine for Full-Auto Enthusiasts

The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 72 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this issue are SA80 Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Medea M3A1 Grease Gun, Knob Creek, Subgun Match. The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a British family of 5.56×45mm NATO service weapons used by the British Army. The L85 Rifle variant has been the standard issue service rifle of the British Armed Forces since 1987, replacing the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle. The prototypes were created in 1976, with production of the A1 variant starting in 1985 and ending in 1994. The A2 variant came to be as the result of a significant upgrade in the early 2000s by Heckler & Koch and remains in service as of 2025. The A3 variant was first issued in 2018 with several new improvements. The remainder of the SA80 family consists of the L86 Light Support Weapon, the short-barrelled L22 Carbine and the L98 Cadet rifle. The SA80 was the last in a long line of British weapons (including the LeeEnfield family) to come from the Royal Small Arms Factory, the national arms development and production facility at Enfield Lock, before its weapons factory was closed down in 1988. October 2021 was the final machine gun shoot at the Knob Creek range--ending a fifty year tradition. Medea M3A1 built by Robert Naess from Black River Militaria. It was built using an original Ithica parts kit, everything is original to the gun except for the Medea registered receiver. Its been test fired by Robert.…