why did Australia ever switch? The L1A1 is better in every way.
Because everyone switch to 5.56
>>34996742
Anyone who asks dumb shit has never served.
>heavy
>can carry less rounds
>way less options for optics
Ever try firing full auto at targets <5m?
I just did.
Can you fire the L1A1 FA? NO
Steyr better m8 waste any coon up close
>>34997019
Niggers
>>34997025
Nice
More importantly, why were Colt such cunts? Imagine if they let us manufacture M16s like we wanted...
>>34997067
True
>>34997019
>Can you fire the L1A1 FA?
yes
>>34996742
Australia's stopped being the Crown's bitch by the end of the 20th century. They didn't want to use a thing made by and given to them by perfidious albion.
Plus Australia has a memorial for Bobby Sands that stands to this day, they're probably not keen on how L1A1s were used to kill 12 innocent unarmed people for sport.
>A large monument dedicated to Irish nationalists and republicans, including Bobby Sands, stands in Waverley Cemetery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
For a seriouse answer though, L1A1 is heavy and has a smaller capacity, plus UN was making the change to 5.56.
Plus bullpups were a new and funky design most folks wanted to try out.
more little bullets > fewer big bullets
>>34996742
Fairly 'meh' accuracy, its not horrible or bad by any stretch. But the guns a bit overly complicated and like having a fat chick in your backpack.
People that like the L1A1 are generally only the ones who walk to their car boot, get it out, walk to the range, shoot it, walk back to the car and drive home. Anyone else who's had to carry the fat cunt and its ammo for 20-30km on a ruck, hates it in some shape or another
>>34997483
Are you implying dex > str???
I'll kick your shit in pall
>>34997492
* cough* L1A1 weighs less than the steyr *cough*
>>34997525
Steyr: 3.6kg
FAL: 4.3kg
>>34997541
Then he's gunna bomb up with say, 6 magazines of 7.62 which is close to 4kg or a bit more, 200rds of ammo which is around 6kgs
Carrying the same in 556 is literally close to half that.
They're shitposters, why else would they pick a memepup rifle?
>>34997586
Jewish americans wouldnt let them make M4's or M16's locally
>>34997450
And now we're back to the Troubles in a non-politics board. Back to /pol/ Paddy.
>>34997067
They let Canada do it.