That would be $250 more than the colt M16 type rifles. But fair enough if there is M16 like accuracy without the m16 jams.

I do not mean to demean the good little rifle. It is good enough for Gov't work as they say and fun to shoot!

Check Six

 

Rocky

 

I guess the United States do not like bull pup rifles, but if some thought had been put into it, it will be interesting to see what kind of Americanized M14 bull pup can result form Lake city aresenal or Springfield.

I think the primary reason that bullpups never took off as US service rifles is because the US realizes not everyone shoots from the same shoulder.
Being a lefty myself, I fire off my left shoulder...with a typical AR-15 series ejecting across in front of my face, rather than off to the opposite side (even though the newer rifles have a built-in brass deflector "nub" at the back edge of the ejection port).

 

The majority of bullpups I've seen are all designed to be fired off the right shoulder, ejecting spent casing off to the right, away from the firer. This would be an impossible weapon for left handed/left shouldered shooters to use, and making those 1 in 7 or however many left handed models to satisy that small percentage of left handed shooters, most militaries don't see it as worth the additional expense (lefty versions of weapons always seem to cost a bit more).

 

I frown on the whole "learn to shoot off your right shoulder" mentality.

During urban training and combat scenarios, not every shot around a corner or cover has the ideal advantage of being able to be fired solely off the right shoulder. It's bad battle tactics for a soldier to have to expose his entire upper torso around a corner to get a shot off his right shoulder, as opposed to getting a lefty, who may only need to stick out his head, arm, & shoulder to get the same shot (and vice versa, us lefties aren't always comfortable sticking half our body out around the opposite corner to get a shot off).

 

Unless a bullpup is made semi-ambidextrous, wherein the magazine can be slant-loaded (angled) into either the left or right side and ejected thru the bottom, every left handed shooter will have to learn to shoot over, something that could take considerably more time especially because of left eye/right eye dominance issues (what eye do you primarily aim down the sights with).

 

That FN F2000 assault weapon tries to get around that issue by ejecting its spent cases forward, alongside the barrel.

A novel approach, definitely, but I don't know whether there are complications if one needs to fire the weapon elevated, as at upper story windows. I don't know if the stacking of empty cartridges in the ejection tube will cause problems in that instance.

I thought all those Calico guns were all pistol caliber (.22LR, 9mm, etc).

Technically, doesn't that make them SMGs more than ARs?

 

Mind you though: a 50 round helical mag of 9mm would be most welcome for room clearing. It may not be a TommyGun in .45, but still better than a handgun.

 

I remember seeing the Calico in "Hollywood caliber" in the movie Total Recall, dressed up to make it look like some fanciful futuristic space gun.

 

Of course, for CQB and close range work, there's always that FN 5.7mm P90...

Apparently, there's a US-street legal longer-barrel carbine model available (semi-auto).

I'm curious if the longer barrel improves velocity, penetration, range, and takedown energy.

 

   Calicos are fading, but they're still out there.  Of course, the price sky-rocketed now also.

    Why not use a shorty M4 for your CQB?  The bullet has more "oomph" and the carbine isn't all that long.  By a "shorty" I mean a 12" barrel, not the 14.5" barrel