| Quoting from Military small arms of the 20th century.
" The BAR never entirely lived up to its designers hopes; neither a rifle nor a light machine gun, it fell between the two. As a rifle it was too heavy and could not be fired from the shoulder with any great accuracy as it vibrated from foreward movement of the bolt. Set for automatic fire it was too light and moved excessively, and the small magazine capacity necessitated frequent reloading. For its day however it was nevertheless a brilliant design."
When I was in the New Zealand Army we had the SLR, brilliant, we changed to the Steyer, duh. These were the Aussie made versions and some had the charming habit of still firing on automatic when you had stopped squeezing the trigger.
Made for some very realistic live firing exercises. The fault was remidied but we still called them LGPAG's. Little Green Plastic Army Guns
A bloke who joined us from the Brit Army told us about the SA 80. He said the bastard who designed it should be shot but it would have to be with another make of rifle to make sure of getting him.
Hasn't the Brit Army spent millions, billions?, continually reworking them just to have more expensive crap.
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