Some people are going on about the cold and the C7/C8!! Pure nonsense, I've been in the Infantry for 18 years now, multiple sov ops in the arctic and god knows how many winter exercises in Wainwright at -30/ -40 for weeks on end and I have never seen one of our rifles break, freeze up or malfunction in any way due to the cold. To claim that the C7/C8 doesn't work in the arctic is laughable at best. If that was the case why would the Canadian Forces have them? Why would the US army based in Alaska use the same weapons???
Someone said it's "mostly made of plastic", again nonsense! The handguards,pistol grip and collapsable buttstock are made of an advanced fibre reinforced plastic that is incredibly tough. It isn't the same material that was used when they were first introduced!
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