I am not ex military but I fired cadet version SLR's around the early 90's and they were so worn and frankly not very good one out of twenty got his sniper badge we then whent to a camp and fire l85's(cadet single shot SA80's) and 19 out of 20 got there sniper badges .
I would love to get a KA SLR as I think they look amazing and i like the whole SLR thing but there is no reason that the british army would have wanted to keep them remember we are one of the last nations to have full auto on our service weapons it's all about acuracy and for that they have snipers and for long range fire p