Posted April 15, 2020 3:15 pm by Comments

By Oleg Volk

Oleg bullpup steyr AUG 556

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Bullpup rifles have been around since the early 20th century, but the first mainstream design didn’t arrive until the late 1970s with the Steyr AUG. Since then, the AUG and the French FAMAS have shaped the public perception of bullpups despite a much wider variety of designs on the market. Most new designs have been unavailable in the US due to the 1989 restrictions on imports. So Americans don’t have access to most foreign designs like those from China, Croatia, and Singapore. On the plus side, the US has several high-quality, domestically-produced bullpups that deserve a serious look.

Bullpup Background, Benefits and Drawbacks

The concept of moving the action behind the controls isn’t new. Firearm designers have been doing so since the early 1900s. But the concept wouldn’t really gain traction until optics overtook iron sights as the primary aiming devices for militaries. This is because the reduction of sight radius made the weapons much less accurate and more difficult to precisely aim. With the addition of optics, the bullpup rifle had nearly every benefit of a traditional firearm but with a reduction in overall length. Another one of the complaints about early bullpups …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.