Saw an older Century Arms International re-made L1A1 at a gunshop.
It was built from a British SLR parts kit with wood furniture and "popsicle stick grip" that had been painted sort of a poop brown color. The barrel was chopped off just behind the flash hider and had been recrowned. Part of the spline for it was left on the barrel (so if you wanted to re cut it and reattach it you could but it would take some work but the barrel overall with would shorter so that might not be so bad)
It had a commercial type-3 Metric receiver that only read CAI St. ALbans VT (so its an older gun they are now in Georgia VT) it had a new metric magazine but could not accept INCH magazines. The metal appeared to have been zinc phosphated a light gray color. Overall rifle had a decent appearance and It handled nicely. It had folding charging handle of a standard SLR. If it where Mine I would have chopped the barrel down even shorted and made it into a carbine because it had a rather light feel to it.
So there is a real life example of a gun made in the early to mid 1990's. by CAI
Brother in Arms
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