When I first started shooting position with the Long Beach Police Junior Rifle Team, we had several of the Springfields, as well as Model 52s and a few Remington 40Xs. I loved those old Springfields. I always wondered what happened to them when the program was ended.


�That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.� George Orwell