This is awesome. I wish the timing would be better, but with the feeding frenzy that will probably be going on around the November elections, I expect these Tavor's to be very hard to find and subject to some serious price gouging.
I'm in it for one of them for sure. The Tavor and the new Beretta ARX-160 are two rifles that are near the top of my non AK must have rifles.
Want the Tavor bad, the ARX-160 not so much, I was very interested until I handled one at SHOT, it seemed very heavy for the amount of polymer used.
Here is mine
Had a quick talk with an Israeli Policeman in Jerusalem, a little over two weeks ago. Even though he spoke very broken English, he told me the Army primarily uses M4 type ARs, while the Police are using the Tavors. His had what appeared to be a Mepro-21 red dot sight.
He felt his Tabor was quite a bit better than the M4, and was obviously proud to be carrying the Israeli made weapon.
Wish I had a photo, but they don't want you taking any pictures.
Last edited by darr3239; 03-31-12 at 19:31.
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Your Israeli policeman friend is not up to date on what the army is using there. The IDF is currently using, and has been using for a few years, the Tavor and the Micro-Tavor, in large numbers. See: Tavor on Wikipedia . "It is the standard issued weapon of the Israeli infantry. The MTAR-21 (Micro Tavor) was recently selected as the future assault rifle of the Israeli Defense Forces, and some infantry division are being issued with the rifle, replacing the bigger and standard TAR-21."
Michael Kassnar, VP of Sales & Marketing
IWI US, Inc.
Any word on when these might actually be ready for sale?
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