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John Moses Browning. (Doffs hat). That thing is coming up on 100 years old and we’re talking about it as the best alternative (which it is) to a 21st-century problem. Oh, yeah, and I shot a 1911 today. 106 years on that design. Kalashnikov was a baby by comparison. Glad I’m not a firearms designer...

The funny part of firearms design is that even though we have had more than a century of firearms design and evolution through intense warfare, Browning's designs still work as well or better than even the latest stuff. I have read that the Nazis lived in fear of the .50 because it had such effective reach, chewed up light armor, was very accurate, and was made in such numbers that they were literally everywhere on the battlefield. They didn't have anything like it!

The only things you gotta watch with that puppy are headspace and timing (easily done with a few minute's training - or by using the new FN barrel change system that doesn't require it), making sure that it is properly lubed, and keep the bursts short/change the barrels every 400 rounds or so.

Those dumb little skiffs will disintegrate at ranges far beyond small arms/RPG reach.