I have also been told of British L1A1 rifles in the USA with the slot in the receiver for the sear, but no sear.
CENTURY ARMS L1A1 SPORTER RIFLE SERIAL
These are also grandfathered by serial number, as with the G series guns.
CENTURY ARMS L1A1 SPORTER RIFLE FULL
There were also a handful of FAL's imported in the early 1970's, by administrative error, which are also acceptable even though they have full auto receivers, but they are not C&R gun. They are also (by serial number) on the Curio and Relic list. They are grandfathered (without a safety sear.) With a safety sear, they are machine guns. These rifles are acceptable to ATF in their factory, semi-auto configuration, even though they have a machine gun receiver. They also had a full auto marked lower receiver, with a semi-auto only selector. One are the very early (1959-1963) Browning imported FN "G" and "GL" series FAL's that do have the slot milled in the receiver for the auto sear, although they did not come with the sear installed. All semi-autos designs acceptable in the USA do not have an auto-sear, nor the slot in the receiver to accommodate the sear. One result of this is a large quantity of FAL parts sold in the USA.Īll military versions include a neat safety/auto sear in the design, and thus in the USA are considered machine guns, either too easily converted to full auto, or having a machine gun receiver, regardless of whether they were designed to be fired semi-auto only, or not. 30 caliber), and standardized on 5.56x45 (.223), the FAL began to be retired by NATO nations, and others, in a process that continues through the 1990's. When in the late 1960's and 1970's the US decided to move in the direction of a smaller caliber rifle (a direction its allies had been moving in before, when the USA insisted on.
Its success was spurred in part by being an excellent platform for the 7.62x51 round the US insisted its NATO allies adopt. During the 1950's and 60's the FAL was adopted by many countries, and used in or by many others.
It uses many of the principles of the SAFN rifle, or FN-49, which was developed for the most part during World War II. The FAL was developed by Dieudonne Saive, and other engineers at Fabrique Nationale (FN), during the late 1940's and early 1950's. It is one of the three main battle rifles chambered for this round, the others being the H&K G3 and the US M-14. It has been used by most of the non-communist world, at one time or another, one big exception being the USA. The FAL is a gas operated, select-fire rifle chambered for 7.62x51 (.308) ammunition. Reliability that solid construction and attention toĭetail creates. More than 90 countries around the world includingĪrgentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, India, Israel, Promptly cornered the market, selling to armed forces in Tough, reliable, and accurate, the new design The new, more powerful roundįN rebuilt their rifle to fit the new cartridge andĬreated what is possibly the classic post-war battle The compromise 7.62mm x 51 (.308 Winchester), which couldĮasily be manufactured on machines producing the. Post-war pressure for a more powerful cartridge produced Was originally designed to fire the 7.92mm Kurz cartridgeĭeveloped by the Germans in World War II. The Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) or LightĪutomatic Rifle (LAR) manufactured by Fabrique Nationale,
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