As much as I do like the SCAR, my stance on it remains the same. I still have my suspicions that this "Special Operations rifle" (the 5.56 version at least, I imagine the 7.62 version will see some use) might end up sharing the same fate as the Mark 23...
What I don't get is that if SOCOM wanted a gas piston so bad, why didn't they just buy an HK or LWRC upper, slap it on an M4 lower, and be done with it at a fraction of the cost?
Well, chances are HK would charge out the ass for theirs, but I'm sure you'll understand my point.
Or maybe I just answered my own question or something, I don't know. They deemed this civvy unfit for military service...
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