So Canada has a deal with Colt Canada to build all the rifles for the DoD; Colt Canada used to be called Diemaco and they were a tool and die outfit but got talked into building AR-type rifles years back and now they're a private company that's also a quasi-government agency...strange setup.
But they build awesome rifles. KAC used to use their barrels, although I don't think they do anymore. The C8 (our version of the M4) is in service in a few different countries; the IUR which is a monolithic upper is used by the Danes IIRC; I think the RCMP have some involvement with it as well. It's a superbly accurate upper, anyway.
So anyway, the next generation of IUR was revealed today and it's all M-Lok'd up.
http://calibremag.ca/colt-canada-mmr...-railed-rifle/
That's pretty interesting. I work for the magazine that released this information today and I hadn't heard of it until after the article was published, and I know we were the first people to have public domain images, so it's sure been kept under wraps.
It's also interesting that they went with M-Lok because Colt Canada has traditionally ignored expenses when building rifles. The furniture they use on Canadian issue rifles costs a small fortune because it's a proprietary material and texture that won't freeze to your beard in -50, for example. They're a strange outfit because they never wanted to build rifles in the first place, and basically dictated all the terms to the CDN gov...including things like "unit cost will be some ungodly number because we are going to overkill every possible aspect of this gun".
So yeah, I really am surprised that they referenced manufacturing cost on Keymod. That's not the kind of thing they usually care about at all.



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