IMI Tavor Bullpup Rifle Coming to the USA [View all]

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.

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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?