Oh. c'mon. We've seen Garand fire control internals break before. :D Point taken, though.
And there are problems with the safety nose breaking, as well, particularly in early versions. That's something less of a fault then the early Australian F88s whose trigger housings and other components were found to melt if more than three magazines were fired through them full-auto. I suppose that's one way to reinstill a healthy respect for one-a-a-time marksmanship and hits that count with the troops, but it's not at all one I favour. Neither, it seems, do most of the Diggers so encumbered.
Fine, handy little carbinme for the Boy Navy cadets, though.
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"... That's something less of a fault then the early Australian F88s whose trigger housings and other components were found to melt if more than three magazines were fired through them full-auto." That's an old urban legend still making it's way around military gun circles, Archy. The lie was started by some ex-Australian Army colonel schmuck who didn't like the switch to the synthetic AUG from the FN-FAL.
Australian armorers proved it was nonsense by burning through ten 42-round mags in a row until the barrel was cherry red. The AUG never gets warm around the trigger housing group or where the plastic stock meets the receiver.
It's 100% nonsense. Every once in awhile it gets repeated now and then.
The AK is the one that has handguards that catch fire in sustained fire, by the way. There's a Knob Creek video of that.