The UKicon did trial the BAR and a 'Superintendent of Design' modified variant of it during the lengthy LMG acceptance trials in the early to mid 30's. The SofD version got a bit further than the standard BAR but even then, the opinion was that while the BAR was good, it was just that..., a heavy rifle. What was needed was a true light machine gun. Not the same thing................ The rest, as they say, is history and entered both legend and folklore as the finest machine gun ever put into the hands of a soldier

The same applied to the L2 rifle. It was just a heavy rifle and not an LMG........... same as the SA80 LSW and dare I say it, the RPK. Good rifles but alas, not good machine gunbs. Just boys trying to do a mans job
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