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

i'm guessing if ambient temperature is 40C it doesn't help either

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

@Eirshy No. The issue is that G36 is almost an "ultralight" by the assault rifle standards - it weighs as much as a typical metal SMG
And when your goal is "light", you need to sacrifice other features: barrel is fixed into a trunnion with epoxy.
With enough heat it can soften that epoxy and move point of aim.

But the thing is G36 will never get that hot under normal use

It is not an LMG

g36 overheating and becoming inaccurate is a meme for normal use

When US army tested it at the endurance ofc it's melty handguards and the epoxy that gave out first

But that was a literal murder-test

test to the failure

i guess if used as a LMG it'd overheat. but that's a thing for any gun that isn't a LMG