FAMAS

>>34225900

Do you mean the charging handle?

It's because bigger things are easier to manipulate under pressure

>>34225900
It was so French soldiers could grasp and throw it with both hands as they fled.

>>34226025
Well meme'd meme brother

>>34226025
>>34226098
You're supposed to grab the handle with both hands and raise it above your head to surrender.

>>34225900
In all seriousness, they had to cram both the charging handle (like an old AR-10) and the grenade sight under it. And then it looks even bulkier because they beefed it up with extra material so you can actually use it as a carry handle. *cough* L85A1 *cough*

>>34225945
>>34226417
The carry handle not the charging handle

>>34226499
You don't know what a charging handle is do you

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>>34225900

They're trying to prove there's no situation they can't handle

>>34225900
It so that whatever the attachments, you can still hold the rifle by the handle and have it balanced.

If you take an ar platform with grenade launcher, and hold it by the handle, it leans forward. Rendering the handle useless.
With a famas, by adjusting where you grab the handle, it will always be balanced. Allowing you to carry it like a briefcase.

Also, it makes the gun truly ambidextrous, as the bolt handle is under the carrying handle. You can rack it from both sides.