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Where did I claim they are useless? They are not as good as classic weapons, but still usable, except SA 80, Brits would be better off with fresh built FALs instead of those.
VHS rifle was not used in war and wartime prototypes only saw the firing range. The original version was also derided by soldiers as having ergonomics more suited for monkeys than humans, but that was supposedly fixed in VHS-2.
It's license production of Tavor and for some reason soldiers in...
SA80 after two rebuilds only sucks instead sucking real bad.
F2000 is rather disliked by soldiers of Slovenian army, due to bad ergonomics and tendency to lose mechanism parts (do not try to crawl with it).
Tellingly SF in both countries do not use bulpup rifles.
It's the St. Petersburg Declaration https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/st-petersburg-decl-1868 which prohibits the use of explosive or incendiary projectiles under 400 grams (these days it's understood as not using such projectiles against people), which was then expanded in Hague...
One one hand, semi-auto rifles in 5,56, 5,45 and 7,62 went up in price as did the ammo. On the other hand, black market is flooded with all kinds of weapons coming from Ukraine, including MANPADs and ATGMs.
We had a really stupid guy in the basic (thankfully his twin brother was in another platoon), before firing we were ordered to disassemble our guns and clear out the oil. The guy does it and then oils the barrel, guy next to him warns him about it, but he snaps at him that he knows what he is...
So guys what is your opinion on the new ATF pistol brace rule? According to some sources up to 40 million gun owners could be affected so by the time the courts make up their mind quite a few gun dealers could be ran out of business, with ATF also having an excuse to dabble in their favorite...