[Charles Martel]

Sorry dude, too lanky, clunky and unwieldy. I’ll go with my Armalite AR 10 any day. That’s before I lost it in a boating accident of course.

So, "AR" stands for "Aquatic Rifle" now? ;-)

Seriously, the FAL can be trimmed down to a more manageable barrel length. And it possesses some attributes that might be a stretch for any AR variant.

The Tale of Ol' Dirty. A Texas Legend (Update: over 16,000 rounds fired w/o cleaning)

[yarddog]

The FAL was designed by a guy whose name I cannot spell and probably couldn’t pronounce. He has a pretty good pedigree tho.

He worked with John Browning for several years perfecting the Browning Hi-Power.

[Tainan]

That is one heck of a story.

The FAL is darn hard to beat as a MBR.