http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/08/opinio...html?hpt=hp_t3
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/28/world/meast/iraq-crisis/
(The links appear to have been changed so the pic is posted below)
Old rifles seem to keep showing up in Iraq amidst the latest catastrophe:
Picture 16 shows an elderly Peshmerga aiming a long barreled Persian Mauser. FWIW, picture 42 shows a Lee-Enfield #3.