British police get battlefield weapons

[FreeBBC]

The British police will be for the first time armed with the same advanced weapons as British soldiers use in conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense has put the contracts for 30,000 modern assault rifles out to tender to major arms producers around the world to supply the “civilian police” with the state-of-the-art weaponry by 2014 under the pretext of fighting terrorists and criminal gangs.
Media reports said the police chiefs are already considering arming their officers with the Canadian-made C8 SFW carbine, the same assault rifle the Special Air Service uses in its high-profile operations.
Some of the features the police want to ensure the new rifles have are being adaptable to use of grenade launchers, silencers and different sights.
There are fears that bringing the battlefield weapons to the streets of London and other cities across Britain could be a prelude to even deeper suppression of protest movements after tackling of demonstrations over the past two years sparked condemnations from human rights groups.

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[Earl]

Alex Jones is full of fucking shit. Now he's exposed it it won't happen Freebs.

[Ben]

Of course they want the best weapons possible, they need to shoot the people there aiming at, not some poor bugger they're not because their weapons are crap.

[Earl]

They've had military weapons for years anyway, what are those sub machine guns they use? Toys?

[Delboy]

Heckler and Koch s

[Ben]

Those aren't what I'd call battlefield weapons anyway, they're much more for close quarter stuff and urban stuff. An mp5 would be pretty crap in a proper battle because the effective range is shit. Good for SAS ops I expect, and for the cops, but not for on a battlefield.

[Earl]

I've seen rozzers with SA80s.

[Ben]

You shouldn't have, the civvy police rejected SA-80s years ago because they're great for what they'd be using them for. MOD police used to use them VERY rarely, but not on the streets, just for guarding military bases the same as we do when we're on guard these days.

[Earl]

These were coppers guarding that nuclear sub place in Scotland, are they MoD police then?

[timey]

These were coppers guarding that nuclear sub place in Scotland, are they MoD police then?

Faslane? Yeah I've been there. Not sure if they are military police though, but they sure have some scary looking guns.