Is it possible to build a FAMAS? Why so expensive?

Is it possible to build a FAMAS? Why so expensive?

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God if only they had put the charging handle on the side and not the top, have the iron just be flat, would've taken the world.

>if only

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That's still the top smartass

Parts kits were available at one time, but you'd have to have the receiver custom made. Not worth it imo

it wouldve been just like muh halo

Wouldn't the French army replacing the FAMAS with the HK416 lower the value or atleast sell them to the US? And then the US would make semi auto versions?

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>sell them
They'd need the receivers destroyed before they could be imported. It's pretty unlikely.

Or if you're talking about new production ones, France hasn't made any for decades. MAS doesn't even exist anymore. That's why they bought the HK416.

left hand shooting...

>implying, that wouldn't have caused it to sell and spread like wildfire

What are conversion kits. It's not a 50/50 split between lefties and correct hand users.

considering the AUG entered service the same year and is better in every single way, no, that's really unlikely. Pretty much everyone who used bullpups is getting rid of them even better ones than this. Add in it's a goofy lever-delayed blowback full of unique French bullshit like the inability to use proper NATO ammo or magazines, and it's really not just the charging handle that was holding it back.

If it's really that bad, then why does it cost two legs?

Because they haven't been produced for 20 years and nearly none were ever exported. It's a military only firearm, exactly zero have been produced for civilians. So supply is nonexistant.

Nothing wrong with bullpup

Because there's only roughly 100 semi-auto versions in the United States and they were banned from import in 1989.
Basically they're rare as shit and the collectors who own the very few out there don't want to give them up for cheap.
Literally the most basic concept of economics, supply and demand, it's not that hard to figure out.

Not entirely true.
Century Arms imported about 100 Semi-auto Famas rifles into the U.S. back in the late 80's right before the import ban.
It's called the MAS .223
They are expensive as fuck though.
The last one I saw for sale sold for over $40,000.

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>exactly zero have been produced for civilians
Wrong.
Besides the MAS .223, there was also a .222 version made for the French civilian market (because .223 was a "military-only caliber")

SOUL
Fuck the end of the Cold War and cuck white guilt laws killing the European small arms industry.

I want one too

ignoring military situations where ambidextrous firearms are the bare fucking minimum...
Why don't you go with the L85A1 if you want a "correct hand only" rifle?

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