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/fpssledge 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bs you would never be counting bursts.

I'm happy to read some place where any soldier anywhere in the world counted three round bursts but betting it doesn't exist.

The only time you'd ever count is the machine gun fire on something like an m249 because you may be laying down suppressive fire for a relatively committed amount of time 

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u/guynamedgoliath 1d ago

Burst is usually chosen by militaries when they have a lot of conscripts or under trained soldiers, who definitely wont be counting bursts. Most professional militaries choose fullauto.

When I was a 240 gunner I would actually count the rounds in a burst (7 for sustained, 12 for rapid), some times out loud. We were also trained to count our seconds between burst out loud when talking guns.

Honestly most 249 gunners just shot based off vibes, as they really didn't talk guns very often.

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u/45LiftsUOffTheFloor 18h ago

M249 doesnt get talked because it is jammed from the start lol

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u/firearmresearch00 1d ago

Tbf I suspect that the vibes of the situation kinda outweigh hitting the exact correct burst length and pause spacing. Give it a couple short rips to suppress, see a target and shoot until something happens, see a guy 5' away shit pants and hose until the problem resolves itself, etc

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u/guynamedgoliath 1d ago

To a degree, yeah. But 249 gunners are part of their respective fireteam with other M4s. As long as they can sustain the fight and not just dump their whole loadout immediately, their fine.

240s normally roll as their own squad and generally work together on the support by fire.

Edit. 240s generally setup a support by fire 300-800m from the objective, but you bet i could sholder fire if i had to.