What rifle is this guy packing??

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What rifle is this guy packing??

Posted: 9/23/2002 5:57:56 PM EDT

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French troops in Africa. Looks like a Bushy Bullpup??!?!

Posted: 9/23/2002 6:00:04 PM EDT

[#1]

FAMAS

Posted: 9/23/2002 6:00:11 PM EDT

[#2]

French standard issue FAMAS

Posted: 9/23/2002 7:55:03 PM EDT

[#3]

The long bar across the top of the weapon is actually a white flag launcher. All French infantry weapons are equipped with white flag deployment devices of one kind or another.

Posted: 9/23/2002 7:57:10 PM EDT

[#4]

How well does the FAMAS stand up to being dropped? I would think the frogs would know a thing or two about making their guns drop resistant by now....

Posted: 9/23/2002 7:58:03 PM EDT

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The long bar across the top of the weapon is actually a white flag launcher. All French infantry weapons are equipped with white flag deployment devices of one kind or another.

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Ha Ha Ha
Good One!

Posted: 9/23/2002 8:18:11 PM EDT

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The long bar across the top of the weapon is actually a white flag launcher. All French infantry weapons are equipped with white flag deployment devices of one kind or another.

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Hahahaaaa.

Posted: 9/23/2002 8:20:13 PM EDT

[#7]

LOL, you guys are on a roll!

Posted: 9/23/2002 8:30:29 PM EDT

[#8]

Ahh, the FAMAS. I want one.

In the typically obtuse French fashion, they're equiped with 25 round magazines.

Plus, the FAMAS is not optimised to full power 5.56x45 NATO, but uses a downloaded cartridge instead.

Posted: 9/23/2002 8:34:52 PM EDT

[#9]

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Ahh, the FAMAS. I want one.

In the typically obtuse French fashion, they're equiped with 25 round magazines.

Plus, the FAMAS is not optimised to full power 5.56x45 NATO, but uses a downloaded cartridge instead.

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In fairness they weren't gonna shoot anyone anyway.

Posted: 9/23/2002 8:49:27 PM EDT

[#10]

I found this info on it:
GIAT MAS .223

GIAT INDUSTRIES is the privately-owned group which, a few years ago, acquired the state-owned MAS (Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne), which used to equip with its rifle french forces. The MAS-223 is a civilian commercial version of the FA-MAS (FA-MAS means FUSIL AUTOMATIC DE LA MANUFACTURE D'ARMES DE SAINT-ETIENNE, or "Assault Rifle made by the Saint-Etienne Weapons Factory). The MAS-.223 fits the proprietary FA-MAS magazines (which were reduced for the civilian users), and fires in semi-automatic only the .5'56x45mm-NATO cartridge. It features a shorter barrel than the FA-MAS F1. It was imported in the USA for a short time, before the 1994 Crime Bill got rid of it. I don't know how much exemplars of this were actually sold in the USA, because I never seen one of those sold second-hand in Internet Guns Exchange websites such as gunsamerica or gunsauctions (maybe this only means that it is so rare that the owners prefer to keep and HOLD IT TIGHT).
[url]http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/2200/2268.htm [/url]
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Posted: 9/24/2002 2:09:06 AM EDT

[#11]

Lazy Louie's [%|] Used Gun-a-Roma in the Ivory Coast says he'll have some slightly used, never fired, dropped only once FAMAS' available in the next few days. Remember, Tuesdays are Two for One Day! Prices so low, he's pratically giving them away. Oh, ask him about great deals on SA85's...

Posted: 9/24/2002 8:40:17 AM EDT

[#12]

It's A Daisey Red Ryder/Carry Handle Model

Posted: 9/24/2002 8:50:34 AM EDT

[#13]

It's actually one of the finest weapons in the world. Of course, if you don't like bullpups, you'll never like it...

Posted: 9/25/2002 1:23:22 AM EDT

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The long bar across the top of the weapon is actually a white flag launcher. All French infantry weapons are equipped with white flag deployment devices of one kind or another.

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Still waiting for someone to post a pic of the expended model.

Posted: 9/25/2002 3:48:48 AM EDT

[#15]

Fuck the French!

and DriftPunch don't be spreadin' drivel like that around here. People might start believing it....

They eat with their feet and fuck with their face. Fuck the French !

Posted: 9/25/2002 4:53:16 AM EDT

[#16]

Those guys may be Foriegn Legion, one of the most elite forces in the world.

(And for the French bashers, no Frenchman can enlist, although officers are pulled from the French army)

Posted: 9/25/2002 5:50:31 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

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The long bar across the top of the weapon is actually a white flag launcher. All French infantry weapons are equipped with white flag deployment devices of one kind or another.

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Ha Ha Ha
Good One!

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Wee Wee... The sound of the french army in combat.

Posted: 9/25/2002 8:08:55 AM EDT

[#18]

You gotta love a weapon their troops refer to as the "Bugle".

Posted: 9/25/2002 8:11:40 AM EDT

[#19]

[b]CAPTION: "Should we surrender now, or after tea?" [/b]

Posted: 9/25/2002 8:15:13 AM EDT

[#20]

This is the "at ease" position.
The "attention" position is indicated with both hands up.[:D]

Posted: 9/25/2002 10:34:48 AM EDT

[#21]

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[url]http://home.frontiernet.net/data/newsimages/cn36903.jpg[/url]

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"These new vehicles do zero to thirty kilometers per hour in 20, and 0 to 55 kph in 3 in reverse gear. AND it comes standard with an in dash corkscrew!"

Posted: 9/25/2002 9:11:01 PM EDT

[#22]

go to any airport or train station in france and you will see on up close. they look cool.

Posted: 9/25/2002 9:21:30 PM EDT

[#23]

They are looking for bullet holes in the back of the jeep.

Posted: 9/25/2002 10:08:05 PM EDT

[#24]

There were fewer of them imported than the SIG 550/551's. Believe the number was around 150 brought in before the '89 cutoff.

Posted: 9/26/2002 8:05:25 AM EDT

[#25]

I still hate the FAMAS. I saw them down in Kosovo a couple years ago carried by the pacifist French in their "combat shorts". I would trade an SA-80 for a FAMAS - and I REALLY dislike the British bullpup.Even the reworked SA-80's are being dumped by the British SAS and similar groups to maintain their Canadian C7's (M16A2 family). Even after the SA-80's were rebuilt by Heckler and Koch in Germany they are still problematic POS. While I've heard good about the Steyr-AUG, I would never go into battle with a FAMAS or an SA-80 - both which seemed to be disliked by their respective armies downrange. [soapbox]

BTW - I saw a .22lr version of the FAMAS in Paris a month ago. Kind of interesting to look at......

Posted: 9/26/2002 8:23:43 AM EDT

[#26]

Many years back, I was sent by Uncle Sam to attend French Commando School (Commando Entrainment Camp)... it was honestly a good course and parts of it were pretty tough, they have a big thing with working at heights (you get a really cool breast badge though!).

Anywho, a few days into the course we were on an O-Course of sorts and having some problems at one of the stations, the instructor was "encouraging" us and yelling that if we did not make it we would not be "French Commandos"... To wit, I turned and ditched my gear, approached said instructor and replyed "your breaking my heart... it means so much to me to be an elite part of the only standing army in the world that has never won a friggin war!".

Needless to say, this comment really greased the skids and made the next week soooooo much better for me [;)]

Posted: 9/26/2002 8:23:57 AM EDT

[#27]

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Fuck the French!

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We had a meeting last week, you must have missed it.

Henceforth we shall substitute Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys for the term French.

Posted: 9/26/2002 9:53:43 AM EDT

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Quoted:
Fuck the French!

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We had a meeting last week, you must have missed it.

Henceforth we shall substitute Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys for the term French.

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So that would be "F*ck the CESM's"
And the formal version of the greeting: Bonjour-r-r-r-r-r-r, ya cheese eatin' sur-r-r-r-ender monkey!

(Edited fer spellin' and to add that I really like [b]Maynard[/b]'s sig line!)

Posted: 9/26/2002 1:24:13 PM EDT

[#29]

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It's actually one of the finest weapons in the world. Of course, if you don't like bullpups, you'll never like it...

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Other then the fact the French use, i have never heard anything actually bad about the rifle itself.

The F2 model uses 30rd mags (USGI) The French issue underpowered rounds, but this does not mean it could not accept standard loads.