Looks like a Spanish Civil Guards Mauser converted to .308 when Spain joined NATO. A few years back, they were fairly common, then dried up.
The anti's realize their position: it is the same stance taken by other totalitarian regimes in history. They wish to impose their will upon the country through the force of arms, which would be a tremendously difficult task if their henchmen were sent home in body bags.
Solzhenitsyn, in the 1st volume of "The Gulag Archipelago", speculates after his detention on the effect armed resistance would have had upon the NKVD's arrests: " And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive & had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood that they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?" He continues further: "The Organs ( being the NKVD) would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" ( Taken verbatim from "The Gulag Archipelago", Vol 1, p. 13).
It is clear what a passive attitude creates, sheep led to the slaughter. We, however, are in the historically unique situation of possessing the effective means of resistance. Like Kaylee said, even an old single action beats a Liberator, and there were tons of gutsy Phillipinoes who used those things to get an Arisaka & some ammo to use later.
