>>64475213
Like I said earlier, he's just repeating shit that he heard from someone else, and that someone else didn't have firsthand experience either. The M14 receiver is not really a problem. It's almost everything else that's a problem, besides the magazines (although they're heavy as fuck), the stock (once they started making them out of plastic), the sling (again, once they started making them out of plastic), and the combination tool, which should serve as an example for all other combination tools to aspire to.
>>64475606
The US did the same. Over half were scrapped, and a good chunk of the remaining ones went off to other countries. It's not like the US was sitting on millions (or even hundreds of thousands) of these things when GWOT took off. The Navy had most of the remaining ones by that point and that's probably because the price was right and they were fine for throwing shotlines, which is faintly damning praise for something that was supposed to be a service rifle. The only reason that the EBR thing was even possible is because those last M14's kicking around couldn't be disposed of through the DCM, and none of our allies wanted them for free. Had the ATF been a bit more lenient, the only ones left in 2001 would have been M21's and a few spares for cannibalization, and the ones in Estonia and Asia of course.
Had the US been stuck with budgets like most FAL users were, there would have been none left after the fall of the USSR. The Peace Dividend forced countries with modest budgets to divest themselves of their old shit. That's what got us the Golden Age of Milsurp, for those of us alive and old enough to remember it.
