MG Shortage

Britain reaps the rewards of destroying it's own firearms industry.

THE Army has run out of machine guns, The Sun can reveal.

The crisis is unlikely to be solved before JUNE, a leaked report reveals.

British troops “desperately” need 400 of the jumbo 0.5in calibre heavy machine guns – the weapon most acutely missed.

The Army has also run out of the 7.62mm GPMG and Minimis.

Supply has collapsed partly because of a dispute with the manufacturers, Manroy – which also provides weapons to Saudi Arabia.

The weapons mentioned are all FN designs; presumably the British firm Manroy manufactures them under licence. Given that decades of tougher and tougher gun laws has all but destroyed domestic production of firearms the government now finds itself competing with Saudi Arabia for a single company's limited production facilities. You might have thought that action would have been taken by the Ministry of Defence before things got this bad?

Almost HALF the Minimi Light Machine Guns used at Catterick and Brecon are also out of commission.

The report adds: “The original spares package was inadequate and usage has been far above that expected. As a result stocks are very fragile.”

Yet again the British soldier finds himself thrust into danger without the necessary material by a government which has cut numbers and funding for years without caring about the consequences.