The Firearm Blog » G36 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog Firearms not Politics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 H&K pissed off with Australian goverment http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/10/21/hk-pissed-off-with-australian-goverment/ http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/10/21/hk-pissed-off-with-australian-goverment/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:40:09 +0000 Steve http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/?p=8711 Because Australians are not allowed semi-automatic guns, rifle manufacturers make some interesting bolt and pump action conversions of AR-15s, AKs and other rifles for the Australian market.

H&K produce a special version of their SL8, itself a consumer friendly version of the G36, for the Australian market called the R8. It functions as a bolt action. The rifle is not manufactured with a gas system, that is then blocked to make it single shot, as other single shot conversions have been.

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H&K R8

Last year H&K Australia were informed that they could not longer import the R8 because it is duplicates a military rifle. They are pissed because as you can see below it barely resembles the G36. The R8 receivers and barrels were never capable of functioning as a semi-auto (or at least that is what they claim).

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Earlier in the year H&K again entered into proceeding to get it reclassified.

Many thanks to Ben for sending me the documents relating to the story.

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Lots of photos here.

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1st Infantry Division (ID) Soldiers, part of the USA Task Force (TF) Sabre force, fire a Heckler-Koch 5.56 mm G36 assault rifle on the live-fire range at Orahovac, Kosovo, Serbia

More here.

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