AR and derivatives are undeniably the best platform in almost every category. Ambi/left support is kinda a cludge, and STANAG is an okay magazine. That’s about the limits of the platform’s problems nowadays, the rest have been fixed
All the big advancements in the small arms arena are in electro-optics. Firearms have plateaued long enough that quibbling over a better gun isn’t the best place to throw R&D (or for that matter, procurement) money at. Buy all your troops RDS/LPVO for everyone, then Vis/IR laser.
Well, they could try for a pistol sized cartidges firing out of pistol sized barrels with rifle sized ballistics. Super high chamber pressures though.
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re having a stroke and can’t form a sentence, or are making some smartass comment about .300 BLK/9x39/etc
There’s a lot of physics that make ‘pistol bullet what goes heckin fast’ incredibly hard, if not pointless. Metallurgy, internal & external ballistics, case web separation, a valid reason why…
Well yeah, 300 blk, but we keep going down that path. Shorter barrels while keeping the same ballistics.
The Bullpup has fallen, billions must experience a better gun design with nicer ergonomics and trigger groups.
but bullpups are so cool
