lysanderxiii
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Six years ago, they signed the contract in September 2016 with deliveries starting in May 2017.
an AR vents it's bolt gas near the shooter's ear, and the guy to my left on the rifle range installed a permanent ringing in my left ear.
The one and only time I have ever shot at an indoor range, the jerk next to me had a short barreled AR15-style rifle. With a muzzle brake (yes, a brake, not a break). I had plugs and muffs on, and still had to leave.
A dozen open lanes, he sets up next to me on my left, and starts showering me with brass along with running me off with muzzle blast.
May have been Légion étrangère (French Foreign Legion) that started the moniker "le clarion" as the Legion still uses bugle calls for their assemblies, and the long top handle on the FAMAS certainly resembles their bugle. (And, is sometimes played inverted from the 'standard' position.)Captain Mac, I'd forgotten that the French piece was called the trumpet. That's funny, thanks!
So the consensus seems to be that they aren’t the future, the past or really anything but a niche for the different-for-the-sake-of-it crowd.