Talk:Authorised firearms officer

message: Check out this picture:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Police.gun.1.london.arp.jpg
If you get it up to high resolution, you will see the trigger group--a removable, exchangeable part--only has a white rectangle with a bullet in it ("safe") and a red rectangle with a single bullet in it (semiautomatic).  This is a later model trigger group (early ones had markings that said "S E F" or "safe, semiauto, and auto" in German.)  
If you go here: http://www.hkpro.com/mp5.htm and scroll down.
The second picture down (on the white background) shows an MP5 submachine  gun.  Notice that the weapon has four positions: The white single bullet, the red single bullet, three red bullets in a box, and five bullets in an open-ended box.  This trigger system is easily replaceable in the types used by the British Police and this system fires semi-automatically, a counted three-round-burst, and fully automatic.  Ergo, a submachine gun.
Changing these two groups out is essentially: clearing the weapon, popping out the rear pin, removing the buttstock, pulling the trigger group down and out, replacing the trigger group by hooking it over a piece at the rear of the magazine well, rocking it up into place, replacing the pin and stock.
That's all.  
I mean, if you want to ignore the info, go ahead.  *shrug*
Deathbunny (talk) 04:55, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: I'm having a bit of a dispute over at Talk:Death of Ian Tomlinson over the inclusion of an erroneous press report that the Met's Territorial Support Group has access to "submachine guns" as opposed to the actual semi-automatic MP5 carbines used by AFOs in the unit (which does not have any Specialist Firearms Officers attached to it). Other editors may wish to offer their opinion on the matter. Nick Cooper (talk) 09:52, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute over claimed British police use of "machine guns" 

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