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Old 02-03-2010, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Tegyrius View Post
FN 49. Beautiful.

Does need bigger and detachable magazines, though.

- C.
That's why they made the FAL
But I agree, the FN-49 is a nice, classic rifle, just a shame they made it with a fixed magazine or it may have lasted as long as some of its contemporaries (I suppose it could be argued that it lived on in the FAL in way the Garand lived on in the Italian BM59)
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