Indian Police Say Goodbye to Long-Serving Enfields

By Chris Eger

This Royal Ordnance Enfield No. 4 MKI in the Guns.com Vault is a bolt-action rifle chambered in .303 British with a 10-plus-1 round capacity. A 25.5-inch barrel is adorned with a post front sight and a national match rear sight. Developed in the early 1930s and used by British forces during World War II, the Enfield No. 4 MKI is a reliable rifle and a crucial part of Allied military history.
Police in Northern India last week said farewell to a historic infantry rifle that has served them for generations– the .303-caliber Lee-Enfield. 
Police for the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which counts roughly 200 million inhabitants, sent their Enfields off after using them for a final time in the country’s 71st Republic-Day Parade in late January, according to local reports. The force used 45,000 vintage Enfields, the agency’s standard-issue rifle since 1947. The historic bolt-action rifle will be replaced with domestically-made INSAS and inch-pattern FAL variants.
The below shows Uttar Pradesh police with their Enfields at last year’s RP Day parade.

“This (.303) rifle is a fantastic weapon and has served us brilliantly in various operations in the past,” police director-general Bijaya Kumar Maurya told AFP. “But it being a bolt action weapon

Source: Guns.com