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>>64110446
The barrel profile is inferior to nearly any alternative and it's an objective fact that it was adopted to address a problem that actually didn't exist.
The burst fire with no full auto option is the single most idiotic decision made in the realm of standard issue rifles until the adoption of the M7.
The A2 grip is a straight downgrade that almost no one likes.

>>64108178
>second hand Arizona Response Systems built "G3" using a PTR 91 receiver and Kongsberg parts and a legit HK G3 barrel

Nothing against you personally Anon but this uniquely American phenomenon where thousands of people get embittered on a particular firearm design because a bunch of drunk monkeys in a garage put together a "G3" or "AK" using a bunch of mystery meat surplus parts and sub par new manufacture will never stop being funny to me. If a G3 clone won't shoot straighter than a FAL, there is something very wrong.
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Actually scratch that, now that I think of it, there IS a parallel here, back before anyone could be assed to import a decent AR from the states, the only ARs we could get our hands on were Chynese Norinco CQ A1s, Canadian Dlasks, IDS (mystery meat rifles built in Britain using Vietnamese parts, until the owner of the company was arrested for attempting to sell missiles to Azerbaijan), and later DPMS and eurotrash Oberland Arms / Hera, and this has soured an entire generation of shooters on AR-15s, contributed to the view that these rifles are trash and spawned multiple new piston ARs.