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Originally Posted by (E)
What about a Styer AUG with its quick remove barrel?
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Well, the military versions are illegal for private buyers pretty much everywhere and unlike former Societ Union military hardware, did
not just flood the global arms market in the greatest illegal and grey market transfer of weapons from state authority known in history.
Nor are they, like H&K G3 and FN FAL rifles, something that hundreds of developing countries have had for a generation, so easy to obtain from questionable sources in such countries. They are not even like M16 rifles, of which a significant supply was left in Vietnam and Panama, as well as having been supplied to enough unstable countries that some were inevitably sold on the black market by deserting soldiers and corrupt cops.
No, Austria doesn't sell them without actually solid end-user certificates and it's not like the Australians, Irish or New Zealanders were deserting in droves and selling their rifles.
That leaves commercial versions. Unfortunately, all importants of Steyr AUG rifles into the United States were banned from 1989-1995 and from 1995 on, only sportified versions that would not actually be as much use were imported. Even if someone were to buy one of those and illegally alter it back to a useable state, there were few enough imported to make them much easier to trace than normal commercially sold firearms.