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

it was a stopgap rifle anyways. that it acted up in Afghanistan after sustained fire isnt very surprising

and is fair considering it is light

@Steyr "Thick" Shotgun G3 still has extraction issues.
To operate it consistently you need to be friends with a decent case loader who will make your charges all the same.

also half the controversy stemmed from a offhand comment some officer made while thinking that perhaps one side of a rifle might get hotter than the other if they are left out in the sun

Flowers for Algernon

trained rats

That's what used to be very common in medieval Europe's "flee markets"

best slr is clearly the l1a1

"Rat Circus" is still in german parlance

I have never seen such well trained street rats before

people think it is the guy who trained the rats, but actually the rats trained the person

I have seen

In Moscow that was not an uncommon thing to see

Curiously - the rat trainers were exclusively romanians

At least all that I and my friends saw

Very curious

**Uksio** cool story bro!

https://imgur.com/cYW5xfG