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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Using the rifle suited to the previous war?
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Date: 14 Jan 91 01:21:11 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
[...]                       I wondered as I watched it how many of those
>soldiers would be interested in trading their newfangled weapons in for
>some old reliable FN FALs like the British army used before they adopted
>the L85s...

  Huh?  The FN used to fail to chamber the round if it got grit in the
ejection port.

--dave.
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