Originally Posted by
BoringGuy45
Honestly, I don't think the issue is with the MCX. I'm no SIG fanboy; I had a bad experience with them about 10 years ago, I was NOT a fan of the idiotic designs like the DAK trigger and the P250 pistols, and I could not believe how bad they shit the bed by cutting every corner imaginable with the SIG551 and ruining one of the best rifle designs of all time. And, right now, I don't personally own a single SIG firearm.
But to be fair, I think they've come a long way this past decade. While their flagship guns (the MCX and the P320) had growing pains, they've improved and fixed most of the issues with them by all reports. The MCX seems, overall, to have become an excellent rifle. A lot of guys with no dog in the fight have given most of the MCX variants excellent reviews. Personally, when I handled the first generation of MCX, my main complaints were that they had a wide, awkward feeling (and looking) Keymod handguard that made no sense considering that the industry was clearly going towards MLOK. The trigger sucked, and the field strip of the BCG and recoil system was too clunky and complicated. And, since then, they've fixed...literally all of that. Of course the MCX is going to have drawbacks compared to the M4, but it also has improvements over the M4. While a switch from the M4 to an MCX variant might not be totally necessary, I don't think it's the most hairbrained consideration the Army has made.
That being said, I still agree with everyone that the Spear is probably going to prove too heavy for what it offers, and the 6.8x51 is probably going to have too many drawbacks to be the new standard issue combat round. However, that's not to say I'm in the camp that thinks that we should stick with the 5.56 until we can develop 10mm armor piercing high explosive caseless rounds, or 40 watt phased plasma rifles. I'm not one who believes that even a single ounce more of weight is not worth the extra performance of a bigger round. I've long thought that a larger intermediate cartridge, whether it fit an AR magazine or not, was probably a good answer to many of the questions raised about the 5.56's performance.
Yeah, but can't that be said about just about every major company? The point is profit margins. Glock spends less than $100 to make their pistols, which they then sell for $500 to $600. Guns from Colt, Beretta, Smith & Wesson, FN, etc, don't always have the most precise, refined parts in them, because that's part of the cost saving. Also, ALL the major companies make backroom deals, lobby Congress, and do shady stuff for contracts I'm not saying SIG is a wonderful company that makes the world's finest weapons. But I think they have, as of late, been doing pretty well overall in terms of their quality, and I think the MCX is a good design that's probably only going to get better.
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