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Just a few more pieces of heavy metal eye-candy. Some are from the main display at Full, some in the storage area. The Staff are easy-going, and let you into the APC turret.You can fiddle with the cannon and turret controls...no ammo though. Boys toys.

Thanks, Kaiser.
I've never fired the Lee-Enfield, but often use the swiss SIG550 (Nato 5.56 round) on ranges in Switzerland, along with the Enfield Mk 2 revolver, a swiss built Luger, and more oldies besides. The Enfield was used in the Recce and Tank regiments, and would have been used by my late Dad. Just to explain, though, my son lives in Switzerland and has quite a collection of (working) WW2 rifles, and handguns + a few later assault rifles (AK47 from Romania for example). The swiss are very civilised, and don't go around killing one another in crazed school massacres, etc. But, they do like their weapons, and there are very few limitations as such on owning, and using, them there. I believe, there are probably more guns per capita in Switzerland, than in the USA; yet homicides involving a gun are practically unheard of. Also many young guys are allowed to keep their assault rifles (SiG 550 used to be the standard one) after doing national service, if they choose. Many do. For a nation that never goes to war, the Swiss have a remarkable collection of tanks and weapons through the ages, and museums to match. It's well worth a visit- although it's very pricey.

A fellow gun-nut, then Kaiser? Well, you can get a .303 in Switzerland, but the ammo is hard to come by, and likely to cost a lot for a day's shooting. I go there roughly twice a year to sample my son's latest acquisitions. On the last visit, it was the Walther P38 (.9mil.,standard issue to Panzer regiments)
and an AR15 (Nato 5.56/ Remington .223). The Walther had that well engineered german look, like the Tiger and Tiger 2, with tight tolerances, and good feel. The AR15 has the looks, but was a letdown after the SG550, as everything is in the right place on the SIG, and it comes with a bipod. The SIG is also easier to strip, and never jams (well, not as often as the Colt)
However, I'd love to have a go with the venerable .303. Apart the German K98, and the lauded Swiss K31 (the lad has one of those) it's probably one of the most dependable battle rifles ever made. The one strapped on the side of the Bren Carrier, by the way, was matched by another three strapped on the inside. Firing a Tiger 88, though, would have to be the ultimate bang for bucks, but even the swiss can't arrange that...as far as I know.

I currently own an 2 AR's, an AK, a 1870's .30 Mauser military rifle, 2 1896 C96 Mauser both still in 7.62mm, a 1908 P08 German Luger, 2 1911 .45 Colts, a .38 snub nose revolver , a 1870 black powder .44 revolver, 30.06 hunting rifle, 12 gauge semi automatic Ihica shotgun, 12 gauge pump with 8 shot tube.

I ALMOST had a C96 Mauser that was #3 ever made! In a red velvet lined, glass case, included white handling gloves, it was never touched human hands! Lost the bidding cause my damn Internet went down!

Jesus wept, Jackalope! I've never been to Maryland? We'll be over as soon as we can, if you get the ear defenders ready! But...and not to get into a peeing up a wall competition, my lad also has:- SIG P226 (my favourite .9mil handgun, giving target hits even at 100mtrs!); Tokarev TT-30, 7.62 (made during the war..a real veteran); SIG210 (nice, but awkward and stiff euro style mag release); SIG SG57 (Handles like a Bren, although mag below, and technically a SLR.. but modded to semi-auto, to meet the regs); Colt 1911 Chinese 'Norinco' copy..jams a bit); Walther PPK 7.65mm(German, not US made)..I bought him that, and an Austrian (forget the make) up and over shotgun, with a beautifully crafted, and detailed decorated hardwood stock.
Here in Scotland, as with the rest of the UK, it's very difficult to get firearms licences. Moreover, secure storage requirements are probably the toughest in the world. That's why I use my son's collection.
We're hoping to add to it with a Brown Bess, or similar black powder weapon (use by our Redcoats when the US still belonged to us...or King Georgie anyway), and a Schmeisser MP40..available and legal in .22 calibre (semi-auto only) in Switzerland.
That'll be at Christmas...and well, might almost be as pleasurable as getting a Challenger 2 in the post. The former is highly likely, though, the latter, not so-sadly.