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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Using the rifle suited to the previous war?
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Date: 8 Jan 91 00:53:20 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
I wrote:
>Nobody short of Schwarzenegger can control a 7.62 rifle in automatic fire,
>which is why almost all 7.62 rifles actually issued to NATO troops were
>semiauto-only.

Wups, turns out I was over-generalizing from local knowledge; at least some
of the European armies did issue full-auto 7.62s to the troops.  I stand by
the comment about the practical usefulness of it, however.  The 7.62
cartridge is just too powerful for a full-auto rifle to be very practical.
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