Thread: New Defence Force rifles need firing pins replaced

Originally Posted by Cordite

Reminds me of an article I once read, on the Fallschirmsgewehr, mentioning the dropping metallurgical standards in 1944-45 Germany as explanation of a crack developing in the bolt face during the test. But in a gun contracted in relative peaceful times?

The only plus to this apart from the components being under warranty is that swapping out the BCG can be done very fast.

Does make me scratch my head as to why LMT didn't test their rifles harder. I wonder whether this is typical of problems encountered by militaries fielding new small arms. That said, it's basically a well developed design already.