re: #63 TedStriker

Still, the FAL (and its British variant, the L1A1) wasn’t referred as “the right arm of the free world” for decades for nothing, since many of the nations outside of the Soviet bloc used it at some point (with the notable exception of the US, who trialed it in the 50s, but ended up going with the M14 instead).

You are very correct that the FN-FAL was a very popular rifle among militaries of the world. And it does have many supporters. And even today there are a lot of collectors of it. And the NATO standard cartridge it is based on, 7.62x51 still also has a lot of supporters.