[bd]

I have an L1A1 .308 semi auto rifle. When I bought it for $399 several years ago it had a funky thumb hole stock on it which since then I have located the original "furniture" and made the change. Could someone explain to me exactly what I have as opposed to a FAL? I assume it's a legalized version for import at that time? Could somebody give me a little more info?

[Cliff C]

BigDaddy - I believe that L1A1 is simply the British designation for the FAL rifle.

I had heard that there are small differences between the two, but at heart they are all FAL's.

Cliff

[Kalvan]

They are both FAL's, but the the British Commonwealth countries used the L1Al, which is an "inch pattern" FAL, as opposed to a "metric pattern". I'm pretty sure that the magazines are not interchangeable; don't know about other parts. Most of the L1A1's that I've seen here were refubished Canadian weapons made redundant when the Canadian Armed forces went to the M-16A2 but the British have gone to a .223 also so I'm sure some of their old L1Al's are floating around too. The Springfield FAL clone was metric and there is a US company (name escapes me) making them now in metric.