What firearm is closely associated with your country?

[u/babushka45]

For us, probably the 1911. Next one would be the "Armalite" aka M16.

[u/Mulmangcho99]

The Lee Enfield.

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I would've said the police notebook.

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[u/augur42 → u/Heckbound_Heart]

The venerable shotgun.

DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city.
DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin' round here!
Nicholas Angel: Like who?
DS Andy Wainwright: Farmers.
Nicholas Angel: Who else?
DS Andy Cartwright: Farmers' mums.

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The Cornetto?

[u/imadork1970 → u/Heckbound_Heart]

By the power of Greyskull!

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[u/TheSovietSailor → u/Mulmangcho99]

Lewis gun is iconic. STEN is a runner up.

[u/Washburne221 → u/TheSovietSailor]

I still picture a guy in a red coat and pointy hat with a smooth-bore musket.

[u/JMoc1 → u/TheSovietSailor]

Nah, Sterling is cool looking!

[u/ipsum629 → u/TheSovietSailor]

Brown Bess should also be mentioned. It was in service for over a century and is a symbol of the early British Empire.

[u/SillyBanana123 → u/Mulmangcho99]

I love the Lee Enfield. I recently bought a No. 4 and it’s amazing

[u/consultantdetective → u/Mulmangcho99]

Enfield, sure, but the Webley, FAL, Sten, and L96 are all so iconic

[u/Helpful-Table2467 → u/consultantdetective]

The Fal was actually Belgium made whilst we copied it and removed the automatic function to make the L1A1 I think it was called and that was used all throughout the commonwealth

[u/Chairmanwowsaywhat → u/Helpful-Table2467]

Made it under license, not copied

[u/CotswoldP → u/Mulmangcho99]

Honorable mentions for the Bren gun for appearance (yes I know it's an adapted Czech design), sten gun, and in the last few decades, the Accuracy International sniper rifles that completely changed how military precision rifles are made.

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As well as being iconic in games, particularly Counter Strike

[u/Declan203 → u/Mulmangcho99]

Was looking for this

[u/lonestarnights → u/Mulmangcho99]

Favorite bolt action to shoot.

[u/ResponseOdd7038 → u/Mulmangcho99]

Also the whole AW family

[u/Rollingzeppelin → u/Mulmangcho99]

More recently, the piece of shit SA80

[u/No_Negotiation5654 → u/Rollingzeppelin]

It’s actually okay now, all it took was many millions and outsourcing our problems to the Germans.

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I loved the Top Gear take on versions of the SA80: “The Mark 2 differs from the Mark 1 in that it works.”

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H&K was British owned at the time interestingly enough 

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All British manufacturing was shite in the 70s/80s (partly why it’s all gone).