Message from @Sectator Pragmaticam Lex
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Very important.
G36?
UK buys those too?
Yup.
It used to be standard carry for armed police
up until 2014.
Not a bad rifle, but had its scandals
mmm melty handguard plastic
Mostly people are just sour at H&K for their "fuckoff" service
Well, yeah. Usually faults are user error.
The issue with G36 is not that bad. AR15 have plenty of melty handguards
*Laughs in COBOL*
It's just hurting HK that people try to do
Because they are unapologetic cunts to customers
A: They're German.
B: You can't just say "This has a bad slide/xyz" because they're *fucking german and their machining-manufacturing production is fucking ludicrous for tolerance.*
Neither G36, nor AR15, nor AK102 will get hot enough to melt their handguards
(and if they do the barrel is fucked anyway)
It's user error 90% of the time.
This reminds me of the Korth 1911
If a barrel is hot enought to melt handguards you are annealing the barrel into a new shape
It is spent and needs to be replaced
Firearms work in any condition, it's up to the user to properly outfit the rifle for it.
If it's cold, extended trigger guards to accomodate gloves. Wraps to keep the barrel and bolt if applicable warm.
etc
that or it's shitty plastic, but it's HK so i seriously doubt it's a material quality issue
Wasn't the G36's barrel heating woes almost literally just a "this is how physics works you retards, we can only bend the laws not break them" kind of thing?
Even the polymer on the MP5 is practically metal.
It's so fucking STIFF
It's ridiculous.
@Sectator Pragmaticam Lex AR16 had melty handguards that would go goopy at the fixing nut with a rather light amount of firepower.
Army called that "fine" and just issued more handguards
Was never a scandal
Hell iirc even with the complaint the gun was still on the upper end of accuracy performance even with a hot barrel
(at least, compared to other rifles with similarly hot barrels)
The right arm of the free world was strangely void of any heating issues.
Despite firing 7.62x51
@Uksio yeah but that's 'murica, the land of everything is a for-profit business
The sexy sexy g3 was pretty solid too