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SA80 in Bolivia

Posted December 31, 2012 in Rifles by Steve Johnson with 36 Comments

German newspaper Tagesschau.de published this photo of a Bolivian special forces solider carrying a SA80 rifle. Bolivia is only one of two users of SA80 outside of Britain, the other being Jamaica. The solider in the above photo looks a lot less frightening than the [Read More…]

Bolivian Police armed with SA80

Posted July 4, 2011 in Rifles by Steve Johnson with 51 Comments

I was surprised to learn that Bolivian police use the British SA80 assault rifle. This makes Bolivia the only other country aside from the UK and Jamaica to make use of the SA80. The below photo shows members of the now disbanded Bolivian special police Unit for the [Read More…]