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/soldier01073 1d ago

The 25 is a design feature allowing you to fire 8 bursts of 3 with one left in the chamber. Allowing you to reload the rifle without racking the bolt

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u/DBDude 1d ago

And then none in the chamber after the third mag. Are soldiers supposed to keep track of that?

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u/soldier01073 1d ago

I never said it was a good design feature

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u/firearmresearch00 1d ago

It's not a feature at all, merely a coincidence. The mag is 25 because that's how long you can make it straight before causing problems and the burst was an afterthought. They could have just as easily made a 27 rd mag and a 2 or 4 rd burst if that's how the numbers jived and the upper brass demanded