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Posted: 2/9/2009 5:44:37 PM EDT
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Holy rate-of-fire Batman. Found this while surfing youtube:
FAMAS G2 |
| It's the first small arm the French have gotten right. Too bad there aren't any in the US (to speak of)–– I've always found them oddly appealing for such an ugly duckling. The high rate of fire, as noted in the comments to the video, is a side effect to the lever-style delayed blowback operation. |
| Darn $13K now? Last time i saw one for sale was a semi for $8K several years ago. I think there are only like 100 semi-auto's imported to the USA. About the same price and rarity as the Sig 550 rifle. Too bad there were no full-autos imported. I think the rate of fire is about 1,000 RPM's on those. Great for CQB's for sure. |
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A friend who has used one operationally (Foreign Legion), G1 version has some good and some bad to say about it when I asked him over dinner in Paris. Bipod makes the gun sit too high vs shooting prone. Lots of nooks and crannies to clean, much like the M16 series.
Old magazines (not their fault, they haven't bought any new ones since the intro of the weapon) which the G2 solves. Short, handy, but like any bullpup, harder to use with body armor on. The French have gotten quite a few guns "right" and back in the day actually were among the leading designers of their time (they introduced smokeless gunpowder, magazine-fed rifles, etc into service first). Their MAS49 and 49/56 were for their time pretty decent rifles, about on par with anything else in service, and their MAT49 was an extremely serviceable submachinegun, on par with the Uzi for ease of use and reliability, though not quite as compact. they've had quite a few screwups but when they do get something right, they get it really right. |
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A friend who has used one operationally (Foreign Legion), G1 version has some good and some bad to say about it when I asked him over dinner in Paris. Bipod makes the gun sit too high vs shooting prone. Lots of nooks and crannies to clean, much like the M16 series. Old magazines (not their fault, they haven't bought any new ones since the intro of the weapon) which the G2 solves. Short, handy, but like any bullpup, harder to use with body armor on. The French have gotten quite a few guns "right" and back in the day actually were among the leading designers of their time (they introduced smokeless gunpowder, magazine-fed rifles, etc into service first). Their MAS49 and 49/56 were for their time pretty decent rifles, about on par with anything else in service, and their MAT49 was an extremely serviceable submachinegun, on par with the Uzi for ease of use and reliability, though not quite as compact. they've had quite a few screwups but when they do get something right, they get it really right. It's not harder to use a bullpup with body armor on. You just have to mount farther back scopes that require eye relief or use optics that have unlimited eye relief like Aimpoints or EO-Techs. The length your arms are extended are not much more than an inch more and maybe it's just me, but I don't find that harder to use in any way. |
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A friend who has used one operationally (Foreign Legion), G1 version has some good and some bad to say about it when I asked him over dinner in Paris. Bipod makes the gun sit too high vs shooting prone. Lots of nooks and crannies to clean, much like the M16 series. Old magazines (not their fault, they haven't bought any new ones since the intro of the weapon) which the G2 solves. Short, handy, but like any bullpup, harder to use with body armor on. The French have gotten quite a few guns "right" and back in the day actually were among the leading designers of their time (they introduced smokeless gunpowder, magazine-fed rifles, etc into service first). Their MAS49 and 49/56 were for their time pretty decent rifles, about on par with anything else in service, and their MAT49 was an extremely serviceable submachinegun, on par with the Uzi for ease of use and reliability, though not quite as compact. they've had quite a few screwups but when they do get something right, they get it really right. It's not harder to use a bullpup with body armor on. You just have to mount farther back scopes that require eye relief or use optics that have unlimited eye relief like Aimpoints or EO-Techs. The length your arms are extended are not much more than an inch more and maybe it's just me, but I don't find that harder to use in any way. We all got spoiled by multi-posotion adjustable AR carbine stocks, that is what the issue is. 
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