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[–] 242 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Except...

This works as a tactile feedback that your mag is empty.

Wine at lunch is just one of their secret weapons.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    I've heard this before, and believed it to be a practical design for a while, but when I started shooting, I realized that you can definitely tell when you've ran out of bullets in the mag because the bolt typically locks back and feels distinctly different than a normal cycle

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  • [–] 81 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    In a combat situation, with other explosions and shit going on around you, it’s easier to feel two pops instead of three or whatever than to notice your bolt locked after three pops.

    It’s designed for war, it’s not a toy for the range.

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  • [–] 74 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Fair enough. They should've installed a little speaker that went, "sacrebleu! You have run out of ze bullets!" instead. I think that would've been more noticeable than just two pops instead of three.

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's hard to figure out who is out of bullets by counting pops, it's easier to aim at the guys who's gun just yelled "Sacre blue"

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It depends. If you're fighting the French and hear, "sacrebleu", you may just think one of them is starting a sentence.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Also important, if instead you hear "tabarnak" or "calice", that's probably a Quebecois spy and you should leave them alive as your goals are likely aligned against the French.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Should probably change the sound of the gun firing to sound like croissa-a-a-ant so we can tell them apart from American gun which of course just play country music.

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  • [–] 77 points 10 months ago

    Barrage à trois

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  • [–] 57 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Look, buddy, numbers in French are hard enough as it is.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The French only learned to count to 60 (except for the dialect that learned to count to 70)

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  • [–] 48 points 10 months ago*

    Mags are often designed to hold rounds in multiples of 5, so ten, twenty and twenty five can be found for some guns. 3 round burst is common, so a rifle having a 3 round burst and a magazine in multiples of 5 is super normal. Many US military automatic rifles like the M4 also fire 3 round bursts. 20, 30, and 40 round magazines are available for the M4. French ain’t got nothing to do with it having non-multiples of 3 in all magazine sizes. Also, the FAMAS has an available 30 round magazine…which is divisible by 3.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago

    It just fires that last bullet three time.

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago

    Ha. Looks like besides the 25 round mag, a 30 round is available. As is single shot mode.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    Duh, it probably divides by 3 in metric...

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    Once you've pulled the trigger for a three-round burst, your hand becomes free and you can change the mag while the first round is still being fired. Duh.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    8 bursts for the enemy, and if that doesn't do the trick, there's one bullet left for you

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    It’s the hotdog conspiracy in full effect

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    Be careful, last time I saw french jokes on Lemmy some butt hurt frog came out of the woodwork and exploded in the comments

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    Youtube has decided that I need to see all the badly designed French things... I seriously don't know why.
    I watched ONE short a while ago from Top Gear about "the most French French car" and that it had several really odd and objectively bad design decisions, and after that Youtube must have put a flag on my account that says "likes to watch things about the French being shitty engineers". I haven't watched any others since none of them have seemed interesting, but they keep recommending them.
    It's so weird.

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    25+1 is still not divisible by 3. The FAMAS F1 is just not well thought through. I mean they kind of fixed it with the G2 that takes standard STANAG mags.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    yeah was making a bad joke about people forgetting that there's one in the chamber so it could've been like a 29 round mag which isn't divisible by three but if it had one in the chamber then suddenly it works, but yeah you're right

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