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When Sharia law sets in, all your problems will go away. What has all this blather to do with Webley pistols????
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No, that's not odd at all. The British Government laws in Northern Ireland are way different than elsewhere. No right to a jury trial. Diplock courts still at the discretion of the Crown. Internment without any trial at all still on the books and can be instituted again at any time. Very easy to get a handgun permit if you have the right kind of politics. If or when the British Government brings back a hard border, or indeed any kind of border that negatively affects the Irish things will quickly revert to the old misery and bloodshed. It may seem like democracy in action when a slim majority of people in Wales and England vote to drag the majority of Scots and Northern Irish out of the EU with then but it doesn't seem that way to the Irish or Scots. Brexit ? Best thing that ever happened in the EUSSR. A Completely undemocratic institution, that is currently trying to ban all semi-auto firearms, yes including shotguns, and just yesterday i was informed they want a complete ban on all lead projectiles, including .22lr ammo and shotgun shells ! It started as a good idea with a common market, but transformed into a monster over the years. Being ruled from Germany ? No thanks, They tried that twice in the last century, 1914-18 and again 1939-45, then changed tactics and tried the political route.
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Has anyone on this forum any interest in the Webley semi-auto pistols ? Relatively rare i know, but i always found them interesting.
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About the only ones we see here are the .32ACP/7.65mm pocket version. An American company, Harrington and Richardson made a very similar pistol in .32/7.65 and .25/6.35mm. I'm not sure if they were made on license from Webley or were different enough to avoid Webley patents or if the patents had expired when they were made.
The big bore versions are very rare here, especially the .38/9mm. I've only seen one of those in my 65 years of looking and a couple of the .455s, one RN, one commercial.
I've always thought the Webley autos felt somewhat awkward in hand, especially compared to a Luger or a "tube-slide" Browning 1910 or 1922.
Last edited by Mike A.; 09/08/17 01:08 AM.
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Has anyone any pictures of the Webley factory in Birmingham ? I was always a fan of webley products, even their air guns were well made and finished, certainly better than most of the mass produced stuff today.
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Fun looking
Copy and paste this link
Mike
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Webley+factory+in+Birmingham+picture&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fi1099.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg393%2Fastoness%2FWebley_and_Scott_factory_interior_1910.jpg#id=22&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deactivated-guns.co.uk%2Fimages%2F38%2520webley%2520lan%2Fwebley-21.jpg&action=close
Last edited by skeettx; 09/08/17 09:03 AM.
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I owned one of the H&R copies of the Webley .32 semiauto pistol years ago. Trigger pull was horrendously heavy and accuracy was grapefruit sized at 7 yards. I moved it on down the road to a collector.
It was, as I recall, a much more nicely fit and finished piece than the average H&R revolver. As it was one of only 2 .32 semiauto pistols I've ever owned (the other being a post-WWII Czech police sidearm I inadvertently won in a raffle), I can't comment on it in comparison to other similar pistols of its era. It was functional and I guess it would have worked as a self-defense pistol if needed, although even when it was built there were many better choices.
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