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A bullpup design makes this impossible without having rounds ejected DIRECTLY into your face. In order to use this gun, if you are going around a right hand corner, the gun must stay mounted on your right shoulder. This exposes most of your body to enemy fire. If this post is true, I feel bad for the troops who have to use this gun.

Nah, it's just that some current designs still toss the brass out the side. The new Taiwanese design ejects forward in line with the barrel, I believe, and a couple of downward-ejecting possibilities come to mind as well, though that can complicat mountin a grenade launcher beneath. But there's nothing inherent in the design that requires fired brass to come out the side....

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Nah, it's just that some current designs still toss the brass out the side. The new Taiwanese design ejects forward in line with the barrel,

True, although current designs such as the AUG and the SA80 will eject the brass straight into your face if fired from the wrong shoulder. Based on the pictures of this 'new' Israeli rifle, it appears to eject the brass out the side in the same way. Whether it ejects it forward or not, a bad cheek weld will still put it squarly into your face with a high chance of it bouncing back into the ejection port jamming up the gun. I doubt US special forces will be trading their M4s for this thing anytime soon.