Thread: Beretta ARX 100, importing

There are other rifles out there , some better , some worse than the DI AR15 type .
Me I would take a SIG550 or AUG , or maybe HK33/53 , or Galil , Stoner63A over most others in 5.56mm , .
HK 416/417 piston rifles used my more countries than you would at 1st think .
As to the M16/M4 or any other contender , so what , honestly it has some times little to do with how good a rifle is over another , most times it comes down to timing & marketing over reality , RE the Galil , most Isreali soldiers wanted to have the M16 instead of thier own home grown Galil .
Why is that , is it because the M16 is more reliable , better , stronger etc NO , all they want is the lightest rifle possible to carry to the coffee shops etc .

Some times the end user has no or little input as to what rifle is adopted or not adopted .

As to the great SCAR , meant to be driven by US SF , who where disatisifed the M16/M4 DI rifles , wanted more .
Interesting to see the SCAR lite issued for about 3 mths , and with then with drawn , nice , why , because the parts supply conflicted with the M16 ( you would think they knew that when the ordered them ) , and they did not offer enough over a std M4 to justify keeping them ? , that sounds like logistics talk and not end user talk to me .
What is kept is the SCAR heavy ( 7.62x51mm ) as this enough different & offers things the others donot ? , reah right , its not like the US uses ANY AR10/SR25 rifles do they .

Interesting that the HK33F won the French army trialls in mid 70s , against the M16 & FN CAL , by quite a margin , Opps , the French did not like the results , so decided they would not have any of the 3 trialled , but design a complete french rifle was the only right thing to do .

Later Chris