IMI Tavor Bullpup Rifle Coming to the USA

[Johnny Rico]

http://www.guns.com/imi-iwi-charles-daly-tavor-tar-21-bullpup-rifle-available-us-video.html



The Israeli Military Industries (IMI) Tavor TAR-21 will soon be available in the US. In order to sell on the American market, they will be manufactured in the States. The Israeli-designed bullpup in its standard configuration is not easily imported into the US for a handful of reasons, notably its overall length of 25.2 inches means that it is qualified as a short-barreled rifle (SBR) which means that it is a Title II weapon that requires a tax stamp and legal hurdles jumped in order to own. There is a designated marksman rifle (DMR) version that has an extended 18-inch barrel that might possibly be importable, however, its non-sporting configuration requires American manufacture for it to be available to all US citizens.

Quietly announced at this year's 2012 SHOT Show, manufacturer of the Tavor Israeli Weapon Industries (IWI) will be working with American importer Charles Daly to set up a factory to build the rifles here with the requisite number of US-made parts to qualify the rifles, assembled with a number of Israeli parts as well, as American in manufacture according to 922R law.

The Tavor is a bullpup rifle, meaning the bolt assembly and chamber are behind the trigger, as close to the buttstock of the rifle as possible. This is how the rifle manages to be so compact while not sacrificing barrel length. The Tavor is ambidextrous, although you have to swap bolts to change it from right-handed to left. It has a left-side charging handle and a Picatinny rail on the right side as well as along the top of the rail, for optics and lights and lasers or other rifle accessories.

(more at link)

How long before the usual suspects start demanding that import of this gun be stopped, just as they (rather impotently) have called the for banning of the FN Five-Seven?

[gejohnston]

1. my son will be happy

he has been wanting one. They have been exporting it to Canada for a few years, and is legal with an "unrestricted" PAL.

http://www.canadaammo.com/product.php?productid=12&cat=0&page=1

As of 2008, it is available for civilian customers to purchase in Canada.[7] The Canadian civilian version comes standard with the Mepro reflex sight and a slightly longer barrel to meet the Canadian requirement for non-restricted semi-automatic centerfire rifles to have a barrel length of at least 470 mm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMI_Tavor_TAR-21

[PavePusher]

2. OMG, its a UZI machine guns!!1!11!!!

[lapfog_1]

3. cant wait until they start making this one...

[petronius]

18. Nice gun! What does the little red button do?

[BiggJawn]

4. Run for your LIVES!

It's an evil BLACK RIFLE!!! Just like George Zimmerman used!

But there's no bayonet lug on it, so it should be OK...

[slackmaster]

5. As is true for most bullpup rifles, those suck for people who shoot left-handed

Unless you like getting hit in the face with hot ejected cartridge cases.

[Atypical Liberal]

6. You may be interested in this one.

Not a bullpup, but I'm impressed with the engineering Beretta has done to make this weapon so easily convertible between left and right setups:

&list=PL308D0014547772B7

[slackmaster]

7. That's a good weapon, but it's not available in California

At least not without some significant functional alterations.

[Johnny Rico]

8. From what I can tell, there's no semiautomatic version.

That being the case, in practical terms it's not available anywhere in the USA...

(edit)

The guy in the video does say that they're working on a semiauto version...we'll see.

[DonP]

11. I thought most Bullpups (e.g. Steyr AUG) were ambi ejectors?

I thought I read that the AUG was designed to eject left or right, with the slide of a panel, or at least that it was easy to reconfigure?

I'm a Southpaw rifle shooter too and spent a year plus with the older M-16's ejecting hot brass into my face, not good for your complexion. That's also why I have a Browning BPS that bottom ejects as my field and trap gun.

[jpak]

9. Stop importing guns - especially this one .

It's just plain stupid to want one of these.

It's "too short" (wink wink)

yup

[Johnny Rico]

10. See? I *told* you the usual suspects would speak up on this!

BTW...are you calling for a ban on importation of all firearms?

[Hoyt]

13. Well until jpak posted, we just had a bunch of folks drooling over new lethal weapons they hope

to add to their cache someday.

[Tejas]

15. YUP, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Now we have folks stereotyping gunowners as droolers.





as drooling idiots = as droolers

[Hoyt]

16. So what "response" did you have upon seeing the photos/videos of weapons above?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

19. Sorry...

...I'd have responded sooner but I was busy mopping up some drool.

[Hoyt]

22. Makes a mess of finish.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

24. Finish...

Swedish and especially the Danish. (I prefer the cheese)

[Simo 1939_1940]

30. Ahem.......that would be Finnish. :-) NT

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

34. You are trying to crimp the mirth? n/t

[ManiacJoe]

29. That is one of the great things about space-age polymers!

[Tejas]

44. $3.95 a minute and I'll drool for you daddy...oooooooooohhh

Not sure what fantasy you have this week, all I've read so far is your usual condemnation for even looking at the pictures.

[AtheistCrusader]

57. I think it's a plastic piece of shit.

But I wasn't going to buy it anyway. I like the new Beretta rifle.

[Johnny Rico]

17. And if there was a group that discussed cars, most folks would "drool" over a new sports car.

This is a surprise...why?

[X_Digger]

23. Because the "Good Democrats" (TM)(R)(C) are supposed to be horrified, don'cha know?!?

[Union Scribe]

31. I'm thinking at least three threads

will be started in H&M by people stepping over each other to be horrified. They wrshup gunzzzzzz!1! Ban them arllll!

[Hoyt]

26. So you admit lethal weapons make you drool.

[Johnny Rico]

35. Note that I put "drool" in quotes.

So they don't make me drool as such, but I will freely admit that upon seeing pictures of some lethal weapons (which describe 99.9% of weapons since the spear was invented), my reaction is a desire to own them.

[Hoyt]

37. Oh, I see. We are using "drool" in a different context.

[friendly_iconoclast]

28. DNRTFOP, did you? It's going to be manufactured in the US, not imported.

man·u·fac·ture (mann-you-fakt-chure)
v. man·u·fac·tured, man·u·fac·tur·ing, man·u·fac·tures
v.tr.
1.
a. To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
b. To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
2. To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner: "His books seem to have been manufactured rather than composed" (Dwight Macdonald).
3. To concoct or invent; fabricate: manufacture an excuse.
v.intr.
To make or process goods, especially in large quantities and by means of industrial machines.
n.
1.
a. The act, craft, or process of manufacturing products, especially on a large scale.
b. An industry in which mechanical power and machinery are employed.
2. A product that is manufactured.
3. The making or producing of something.

[ObamaFTW2012]

12. Being a lefty,

it's hard to find a bullpup rifle that doesn't put hot brass in my face. I would love to own a Tavor. Hurray for IMI!

[ileus]

27. Kel-tec to the rescue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kel-Tec_RFB




of course you have to find one in stock somewhere....

[Johnny Rico]

36. Half a dozen for sale at Gunbroker right now.

Apparently $1800 or so is what the market will bear at the moment...

[Callisto32]

48. They try stuff other companies won't.

Unfortunately, they should changer their corporate registration from Kel-Tec CNC to Kel-Tec Vaporware.

[Tejas]

14. UNREC for misleading OP - That is an AK-47

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

20. Does it come with a thing that goes up? n/t

[Johnny Rico]

21. Don't all black plastic guns come with things that go up?

That's what I've heard...

[ileus]

25. We need more sporting firearms like this imported.

[DrDan]

32. insert Tim the Toolman Taylor grunt here

[gejohnston]

33. I always thought of myself as

being more like the much brighter Al, just without the overbearing mother.

[DrDan]

39. I always though of myself as

being more like the much clumsier Tim with the same attractive wife.

[Xela]

38. Mixed feelings...

Good job creator, that's a plus. OK rifle. I like the FAMAS look better, even the Brit rifle has more flair.

But honestly, I would have preferred that the investment went into expanding national industries like making civilian legal M14's with solid, forged steel receivers, like the ones these guys make: http://www.lrbarms.com/

Xela

[ManiacJoe]

40. What is the difference between

a semi-auto m14 and an m1a?

I have never heard of anything refered to as a "semi-auto m14" before.

[Xela]

42. Never, ever?

That's strange. I thought it was pretty well known that "M1A" is a trademark owned by Springfield Armory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1A_rifle

Xela

[ManiacJoe]

43. Learn something new every day.

Thanks.

[Remmah2]

41. LRB has a classic vintage old school look.

I hate plastic furniture.

[ellisonz]

45. Death Spewer. n/t

[PavePusher]

46. What features cause this classification....

and by what mechanism do they accomplish this?

Specifics, please.

[ellisonz]

47. lol

[PavePusher]

50. Soooo......? Nothing, eh? n/t

[oneshooter]

51. Of course"nothing" he doesn't know enough to answer

such a question. So you get nothing except cartoons and silly faces. He believes it hides his ignorance of the subject matter, but all it does is emphasize it.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[ellisonz]

52. Not really.

Tis tax season and that's more painful than reading your song and dance.

[oneshooter]

53. No longer on"ignore" am I?

[ellisonz]

54. Hey ignored person...

...still replying to this post. You're still ignored.

[Callisto32]

49. I'm concerned with the lack of a trigger guard.

I think there ought to be a little more "guarding the trigger" going on.

[Air Marshal8]

56. Are you perhaps looking at the magazine latch?

?

[Air Marshal8]

55. That's so cool! I'll be getting one for sure!