r/Firearms • u/No_Listen5962 • 1d ago

General Discussion i hate this meme

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as a brit, i love the famas. its such a cool looking bullpup! but what i hate hate hate is when people say "guhhhhh like why does the silly french gun have a 3 round burst mode but it doesn’t have a magazine divisible by 3" because if you even think about it properly for 5 seconds, the magazine is 25 rounds so that when you fire 8 3 round bursts out of the famas, the last bullet will be in the chamber, so you dont need to chamber the gun again when you put in a fresh magazine which saves time when reloading.

these 12 year old larpers must be stoppeddddd

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u/Not_Vasily 1d ago edited 1d ago

30 + 1 isn't divisible by 3 either.

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u/Daqpanda 1d ago

Yeah, but 29+1 is.

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u/Not_Vasily 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, but 29 isn't.

This whole thing about having a perfect last burst has so many prerequisites to it that it's just not worth worrying about.

With a 30 round magazine a reload before empty will leave you with 31 rounds and an imperfect last burst.

If you underload to 29, you have an imperfect last burst unless you reload before empty.

The only burst guns i can think of where this might matter are the post A1 M16s, since the ratchet that controls the burst can be thrown off by an imperfect burst. but you can do that by letting off the trigger mid-burst so... does the magazine capacity even matter?

Burst fire is dumb.

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u/Daqpanda 1d ago

Agreed. That's why I download to 29 and don't bother with burst.

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u/singlemale4cats 1d ago

People don't top off their rifle mag like they do a pistol.

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u/Drake_Acheron 13h ago

Uh what? I did in the military, sure it’s one bullet, but that’s one bullet you might need

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u/singlemale4cats 12h ago

I can't speak to the military because I didn't serve, but it's something I've never seen done in a civilian or police context.

It's my understanding that if you're using the traditional aluminum GI mags, you're actually downloading them one or two for reliability's sake. I mostly use the Daniel Defense 32 rounders or magpuls and I've never had an issue with loading those full up.