• Milk_Sheikh
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    2 months ago

    Disagree. They do dumb little things akin to Apple because “that’s how it’s designed to be used”. See: not offering multi-position collapsible stocks for decades, PMAG incompatibility for multiple 416 generations, pistol paddle magazine releases (even on US contracts), weird optic rail height on the 416, HK never really caring about aftermarket parts or third party accessories…

    They build quality, well/over designed firearms with quirks - everyone does, the Belgians, Italians, Americans, etc. The 416/417 is the obvious choice because: the time they’ve spent iterating issues and, it’s top class AR variant with a proven G36 piston system. Not special HK wunderwaffen krautmagik

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      2 months ago

      Why should HK care about third party accessories? Those do not matter at all for large military contracts.

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      2 months ago

      pistol paddle magazine releases

      Why exactly is this a bad thing?

      weird optic rail height on the 416

      You can also spacer-up, you can’t spacer-down.

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        2 months ago

        Paddle magazine release isn’t a negative really, but it’s a weird thing to hold onto a very Euro-centric handgun feature, when selling to Americans who are used to a side button. You gain ambi use though