Belgian Gendarmerie FAL Parts Kits from FN America 

lol

I missed this exhibit at the Lego museum when I took my kids.🤣👍🥃

They also seem to have moved from Denmark to Belgium :D

Now extra fun

Not funny, their from Denmark

Yup this is a great way to make sure they make their way directly into the hands of collectors and end users, rather than allowing vultures to profit off of history

Romanian AK

For $900 a kit you're not getting a deal lol. Better off with an Imbel kit that comes with og barrel

@@AKIMBOASSASSIN67 the deal is in it's rarity and collectability

Yes I agree that FN came up with a fair way to distribute these, unless you live CA like I do. F**k California!

Same here. It's crazy to think we had a Gendarmerie patrolling the streets and carrying these legendary battle rifles. They also had UZIs. Different times.

@@MrKinir Different times? I don't know about that. Not so long ago we had the army patrolling the streets with FNC's and SCAR's because of the terrorist attacks.

Imagine what it was like for kids in Northern Ireland with soldiers carrying the L1A1 while they played (I’m also ex British Army)

@@ambivalentonion2620 you’ve obviously never been there

And I was one of those guys who lay on the roof of a Colruyt or Delhaize Supermarket ... dressed in Khaki armed with a Fal ... terrible times that coincided at that time with another terror ... the CCC ,( Cellules Communist Combatant)... was 23 years old at that time 🫤

That's a great idea.

Yeah ,i bought his gunplumbers guide to gunsmithing for FN FAL DVD and build manual , I just need a decent receiver to build on now.

yah hopefully other importers take note.

And if you do decide to give a few away, there’s only one person better than Ian I could think of. And that’s myself, clearly, please and thank you…. Hahaha

Yeah I bet Mark will build a bunch of these. Definitely where I would send my kit if I win.

Please, a livestream of building a FAL. Probably mega illegal here, probably *very* interesting to some alphabet bois, and overall not the best idea, but damn I would love to see it.

@@internetbodhi1009 Maybe illegal in some countries, but if you mean here in the US it's fine. The problem is that kind of content is against youtube TOS, so we unfortunately won't see it here.

@@ittapupu7406 that's what I meant, RU-vid has determined it illegal

@@internetbodhi1009 A corporation can't dictate law, but they can restrict the content they provide. Broadcasting this kind of content can be seen elsewhere, it's not outlawed.

But the barrel is sawed.

I feel you brother.

Yeah, I'd love to get one too.

DSA sells FALs and SA58s, but the prices keep increasing unfortunately so I recommend getting one and keeping it as long as you can.

There are plenty of used ones for sale at decent prices, also, as much as gun shows suck these days, a lot of older people will go there to sell off a really nice gun that don't know any better. I saw a VERY nice STG-58 rifle with Imbel receiver that some idiot sold to a dealer for 8hundred galactic credits, I should have offered him more but didn't have the cash on me. Though most of the dealers at most gun shows have terrible prices on, well everything really, every now and then you can find a deal on FAL mags too.

hope u get one bro

FaNboy :P

Pal of mine used to refer to the butt of his inch pattern SLR as "Attitude adjuster MkI"

Belgian here, my L1A1 SLR (much easier to aquire here because they came semi-auto from the factory) came all polymer, i would've liked some wood but the rifle seems to new for it to have the old wood

@@webtoedman It will adjust the hell out of that, all right! 😁

@@RobinVerhulstZ Ahh, jealous! Sadly, a certain murderous nutjob ruined owning SLRs and similar rifles for the rest of the country back in '96. May he rot in a padded cell for all eternity.

In war time, the Gendarmerie/Rijkswacht (litteraly "Guard of the Realm" in Dutch) was tasked with the "prévôté militaire" (sort of military police with judicial powers) and also had to provide recce squadrons to the military effort. They had armoured cars for this task: i.imgur.com/viQ5YIq.jpg

@@ambivalentonion2620 indeed, it would have helped with the absurd prices FAL's go for here nowadays

@@ambivalentonion2620 Weren't they originally select fire? So even after conversion, they'd be in category A in the EU... I suspect the Czech Republic would have been the only country in which they would have been legal to sell, and even then, only to collectors.

@@ambivalentonion2620 So it's still legal in Italy! Good for you. That stupid change in law in France threw lots of museum pieces straight into the trash...

Well there are a lot more that are in the market over there, we cant get here

They have a far better chance of surviving long term in the US. You guys don't really stand up for your natural rights

do you mean de bende van nijvel??

@@asmo1313 If you say: "bende van Nijvel", you have to say "operation gladio". It's almost sure that some people in US intelligence knew who they are.

@@asmo1313 yeah

@@ROOSTER333 Yeah, really. Never heard of these terrible events/weirdly unsolved crime-spree. (Hardly surprising given the fact that I was a kid at the time and am still on the far side of the planet, but still odd that I've never stumbled across it in all the years since.)

@@asmo1313 Being from Nivelles, it was weird to learn some years ago that this ordeal was named after the town in Dutch when in French it's indeed the "Brabant killers". It's even weirder to then see my hometown mentioned under a Forgotten Weapons video of all places...

It's also smart business. They will get a ton of people to sign up for their promotional emails while ththe

Every company knows scalpers exist, some just don't care who buys as long as they get paid.

Excellent marketing strategy.

That was Copper Customs, not MAC. He's really just like a spokesperson, not the owner/operator.

@@AKS-74U he has equity in Copper, he’s an owner

@@ddt6352 never heard of a spokesperson who doesn't get paid. Never said it was charity.

That's great.

Best of luck to you if you enter. Be nice to complete one of these.

You probably know this, the barrel has nothing to do with 922r but was a rule change later because the Gooberment didn't like people building "military" guns from parts kits and someone figured that barrels were the hardest part to recreate in the US.

Fast forward to today, and I don't even bat an eye at $900 for this thing.

Yes indeed: a month ago I saw a FAL at a gun shop being sold for 550€ .

It was always a police force.. Traditionally, it depended both from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defence (and the judiciary for any tasks of criminal investigation). First the dependence of the Ministry of Defence was abolished. After 2002, part of the Gendarmerie/Rijkswacht was integrated into the Federal Police and part into the Local Police. The Belgian Federal Police was basically composed of the "central" and more specialised parts of the Gendarmerie and of the entire "Judicial Police". I can assure you, the rivalry lasted for a fair number of years within the new organisation...

I think you might need to select I higher resolution in your setting lol

He films with an iPhone. If your video is blurry, change your YT settings. I have to constantly set the video resolution.

where are they?

@@ROOSTER333 No kidding. But he's smart, and has all the new kanadians and welfare suckers as his minions. Stay well.

Well gun owners are pretty "persona non grata" here. It's not surprising we've been so heavily restricted. I wish people were more sane here.

@@dwi2921 Me, too, brother. Me too.

@@kbjerke What always blows my mind is just how closed off from the rest of the world Canadians are when it comes to the issue of firearms. It's like they/we have tunnel vision, and can only see the US and it's gun violence problems and say "ah yes this is what gun ownership looks like, let's restrict it" and just forget that the way the US does things IS NOT the only way. I actually like using the UK as an example as you can own a lot more than you might think over there. I mean just look at their SLRs, yes they are not semi-auto anymore and have been (I assume permanently) altered to be manual operation only, but Canada can't even do this. Further proving that our nonsense laws are in reality just rampant Anti-Americanism, appearance and flawed uninformed perception. Our decades long cultural, d$%k measuring contest with the Americans, trying desperately to proove how "superior" we are has a lot to answer for. Yes we do some things better than the US. Yes our healthcare is statistically, MARGINALLY better than that of the US, yes our "democracy" is MARGINALLY better than the US, yes our people are MARGINALLY happier than in the US. I got bad news for folks, those are not high bars to clear. But our new handgun ban and the up coming feture ban on magazines that are capable of holding more than five rounds is the politically expedient move. Remember blaming a minority (be they gun owners, Metis or Indigenous individuals, many of whom are also gun owners), is the Canadian government's modus operandi.

@@dwi2921 Canadian "democracy" is inferior. Trudeau pulling rules and laws out of his a$$ is a huge failure of the system.

And if they were forged

Interesting idea but it does depend on the locking shoulder you get with your kit being large enough to result in a chamber with material to be removed. While I get the idea of striving for a NM chamber, the FAL doesn't really have that much inherent accuracy to make a difference (in my opinion). I have built a half-dozen metric FALs and the standard procedure of measuring and installing the correct sized locking shoulder isn't all that difficult.

@@ShowaEraGaijin it isn't that I am trying to get a match chamber specifically,but that's the tool available for this type of chamber cutting. However, try looking at it reverse to how you are, it would be cutting a new chamber to headspace on the given shoulder. the barrel is a threaded interface type. a rough chambered barrel installed , finish reamed until the bolt locks means it will be head spaced to the specific locking shoulder installed , any replacement would have to be the same size as the one that is custom headspaced. A true NM chamber In a fal seems like it's asking for operational problems from stuck cases . A pre-chambered barrel will have to have it's shoulder replaced with ever larger sizes until lock up on a go-gauge happens,and not on a no-go. to get a properly headspaced bolt/ barrel. As long as the shoulder is in spec, and the bolt locks without a barrel installed, headspace is achieved in the standard way . By Cutting to depth and measuring the headspace from the locked bolt face to the chamber neck or shoulder. Depending on what cartirdge is chosen.

@@coreymerrill3257 One of the unique tools sets needed for building a metric pattern FAL is a set of pins which are in different diameters corresponding to the standard range of locking shoulders. Once you have the barrel correctly screwed into the receiver you try different pins sizes (in the hole where the locking shoulder goes) until you find the pin size on which you can close the bolt on a GO gauge in the chamber with two thumbs pressure on the bolt carrier. Then you procure and install a locking shoulder in the size of that pin. If the locking shoulder you happen to have on hand is large enough that you cannot close the bolt on the GO gauge then you could ream the chamber until the bolt will close on the GO gauge. That is an option if you have the tool on hand - and the locking shoulder you have is not so small that the bolt is too sloppy on a GO gauge or even closes on a NOGO gauge.

@@TheOriginalShoneBoyOnYT - this kit is gonna need a barrel, receiver, piston, fire control parts et al. Last FN kit I bought maybe 4 years ago was $500 and included a barrel and all the parts

Nice

If only RU-vid would let him.

@@anon_y_mousse Yeah, he would have to do it on utreon, probably let him there. A real shame. I wouldn't buy one myself but to see it go from a pile of parts to a finished weapon would be cool.

@@Jimtheneals Yeah, it would be awesome. I really miss the channel that I used to watch. This machinist built from chunks of steel an entire gun. Thing of beauty.

I agree, but these were machine guns and there's no way they could have come into the country.

@@ForgottenWeapons yeah, silly nfa.

What all is needed? Just a reciever and barrel?

@@dariusbelzer3256 gas piston and selector as well. DSA is selling all the parts you need

That was my thinking as bobby B parts are stacking them deep and selling them cheap.

They did 😉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gtqVzRrwHn8.html