• Baggins@feddit.uk
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    15 hours ago

    The lads used to carry these when on patrol in Northern Ireland in the 80s and 90s.

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      47 minutes ago

      Some mad lad bolted one of these to the hand guard of an L85 and called it a weapon light.

      This was, of course, really to add mass to the rifle for when it was used as a bludgeon, because it is so British that it spontaneously ejected its own magazines as a form of silent protest against violence.