i hate the meta - /k/

Anonymous08/31/26, 12:26No.65469946I hate the meta

First Multicam and now this. Why does it have to be like this?

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Anon08/31/26, 12:32No.65469952

People fixate on ARs and ignore the SCAR clones building steam; obviously there's the Bren but the japs have one now too; plus as a third option the chinks now have a 416 knockoff in their own weird calibre. Just as multicam has its distinct sub variants (brit, spanish, australian) and countries that entirely ignore it, there will be a decent number of armies using SCARs and 416s instead

Anon08/31/26, 12:34No.65469954

So aren't those all effectively AR-18s?

Anon08/31/26, 12:40No.65469967

Because it just fucking works. Why do you think everyone copied the Mauser bolt-action rifle in the first place?

Anon08/31/26, 12:47No.65469973

>it's either AR or AK We need a third way, now more than ever.

Anon08/31/26, 12:50No.65469977

>i hate this meta!!you're right. we need to force exotic countries to adopt goofier looking guns.

Anon08/31/26, 13:16No.65470010

I get it. Ventilated handguard, adjustable stock, rails, it was more interesting when everyone was experimenting to get it right, showing off their creativity and a new rifle was even a bit of a fashion statement too.

Anon08/31/26, 13:21No.65470016

>meta grow up

Anon08/31/26, 13:30No.65470027

I love the AR15

Anon08/31/26, 13:47No.65470049

National industry is dead, cheaper to just contract everything out. Welcome to this fake and gay bizarro world

Anon08/31/26, 13:54No.65470063

Picatinny has been a disaster for gun aesthetics everywhere.

Anon08/31/26, 13:58No.65470069

One thing I don't get is why so many countries are going for piston AR-15s instead of AR-18-derived rifles. I thought the only benefit of a piston AR-15 is that it involves less retraining if your previous service rifle was already an AR-15. For everyone else, shit like SCARs and Brens sound more logical to me

Anon08/31/26, 14:04No.65470076

What meta, dude?

Anon08/31/26, 14:56No.65470150

Because entropy is the unfortunate rule of existence.

Anon08/31/26, 14:57No.65470151

Did Stoner just design the perfect infantry rifle? Light, 5.56 is a very flat shooter, good penetration, wound channels massive internal damage, can easily carry 8 spare 30rnd mags, insane range of aftermarket parts making it highly versatile. I mean human anatomy isn't changing any time soon. What could even be improved, not necessarily about the AR but what would a theoretical "better rifle" even have that the AR doesn't have or can be modified to have?

Anon08/31/26, 14:57No.65470152

>going from this absolute kino rifle to that finland i am disappoint

Anon08/31/26, 15:16No.65470182

Anon08/31/26, 15:42No.65470226

Cool. >originated in African-American vernacular and 1930s–1940s jazz culture. Musicians used it to describe a calm, unperturbed, and stylishly restrained attitude under pressure. From there, it spread into mainstream youth culture and became a universal term for approval.

Anon08/31/26, 15:46No.65470241

Don’t forget FN.

Anon08/31/26, 15:47No.65470243

Anon08/31/26, 16:21No.65470304

Anon08/31/26, 17:31No.65470454

I felt the same way about the 1700's. Like come on guys. We don't all need to dress like this and carry muskets.

Anon08/31/26, 17:47No.65470493

Possibly dumb question: Is there any part compatibility between all these ar15/18 clones? I don't mean stuff like stocks or grips, what I I mean is do their internals share anything or is everything proprietary?

Anon08/31/26, 20:40No.65470872

Because once you get the fundamentals of shooting down you realize that everything goes in a certain direction. Glock and the ar15 are all you really need in most circumstances.

Anon08/31/26, 23:33No.65471306

>enough time has passed for rage comics to be ironically in again

Anon09/01/26, 05:00No.65471936

NATO is preparing for war and they want to standardize on the same platform. Blame european countries for being too lazy to make their own militaries

Anon09/01/26, 05:12No.65471963

This and G3 are the two greatest modern infantry rifles

Anon09/01/26, 05:13No.65471968

>Finland say it aint so

Anon09/01/26, 05:52No.65472037

It's very simple >nobody but Americans own guns >American ideas wind up being the best as a result >everyone copies themIt's no surprise countries with nearly zero market for civilian shooting can't do anything. The only people with any experience with guns are issued them, resulting in their opinion being useless. "what did you think about the one and only gun you are allowed to touch, the only one we have?" isn't a very useful question which can have an informed answer.

Anon09/01/26, 09:51No.65472301

>uhh meta is lame and gay You fetishists worship WW1 despite everyone using Mausers and Maxims

Anon09/01/26, 16:26No.65472884

Fishguns will return, mark my words.

Anon09/01/26, 17:43No.65473017

Bullpups suck. I'm sorry, but they do. You have to let them go.

Anon09/01/26, 20:07No.65473334

>why does the best thing dominate? gosh

Anon09/01/26, 21:06No.65473439

Because it's the most supremely efficient rifle design and literally none of the faggoty rifles you like do anything better per dollar. Nothing exists that is justifiably better and nothing ever will, it's here to stay like the browning tilting action and mauser action.AR15 = God Rifle Multicam = God CamoShut the fuck up and stop whining. You just hate things that are popular. Hopefully by the time you become legally able to use this board you will grow out of this phase

Anon09/01/26, 21:27No.65473477

History ended. There is nothing left to do.

Anon09/02/26, 00:53No.65473949

>Nooooooooooooooo!!!11!! Everything has to have SOUL and be KINO!!!!!!!! Why can't militaries aura farm and use rifles with SOUL!!! Don't use the design that's effective and proven! Use something like the Daewoo rifle!!!! It has SOUL, its KINO! Just like when I conceal carry my bulgarian makarov under my FUCKING HUGE gut!!

Anon09/02/26, 06:41No.65474813

Well, rifles are kinda not that important. I know it sucks that all becomes sameish ar-15 stuff, but it's simply the easiest route for a military. There is no real pressure to advance firearms design and we have no clue what even would be a worthwhile thing to go for. But you don't need to use military rifles, you can choose whatever weird gun makes you happy. You can go plink with an ar-15 and you basically have handled most military service rifles, then proceed to shoot something interesting instead.

Anon09/02/26, 09:56No.65475013

>choosing your nation's service rifle based on meta your nation will not even be a footnote in history >choosing your nation's service rifle based on aesthetics and whimsy you will be the only nation in the history book

Anon09/02/26, 14:56No.65475608

Get off tarkov

Anon09/02/26, 16:56No.65476139

If 5.56 is so good why can't we win a war?

Anon09/02/26, 16:58No.65476142

Everyone complains about ARs but never buys anything different. This is why I bought an AUG

Anon09/02/26, 17:01No.65476145

>Why does it have to be like this? Infantry rifle performance or even function is largely irrelevant nowadays. Even insurgents would rather use explosives delivered remotely. Therefore, just adopt an AR-15 because it has a lot of support and for consistency's sake.

Anon09/03/26, 18:48No.65479355

because modularity is king in this collapsing economy

Anon09/03/26, 22:52No.65479858

Anon09/03/26, 23:45No.65479998

>most effective tactic available Everything is AR-15 or AR-18 because it is the western AK. Mass production and copying of a very good design is cheaper. It is cheaper to make more of what is already being made. The M17/P320 is a little different from the normal polymer pistols in the FCG slide, but not that different, and it won the contract by being cheap. There might have been better pistols to replace the Beretta M9, however the M9 aged out and needed to be replaced, the decision was more financial than anything else.FAL and other "unique" NATO guns aged out, and needed replacement. M4 or HK416 were cheap and the manufacturers were able to fulfill large orders at known quality control. A lot of European weapon manufacturing died in the peace dividend after the cold war. H&K could fulfill the large orders without uncertainty.Multicam's colors were already known in the 1990s before the UCP blunder. After 25 years of GWOT, of course somebody will copy multicam or make something that is basically the same using a slightly different pattern and the same general colors. Oh no, green+brown+black+lighter muddy colors, who could foresee a slightly better BDU woodland camo?

Anon09/04/26, 04:29No.65480625

assault rifles are outdated for their use case they should be replaced with semi automatic grenade launchers, DMRs and squad automatic weapons

Anon09/04/26, 05:44No.65480742

Anon09/05/26, 17:51No.65484413

The Italian ARX160 is a bit unique at least

Anon09/07/26, 14:51No.65489342

I don’t know man all I shoot now a days is a 1911 and a Howa 1500 in a bravo chassisThe ar-15 crowd is kinda cringeBlack rifle coffee etc

Anon09/07/26, 15:59No.65489528

German chads keep winning, the mauser action of our time.

Anon09/07/26, 23:22No.65490602

It's because 5.56 is both inadequate and going nowhere for the foreseeable future. There's no fucking point spending lods of emone on something new, may as well shove in a cheap stopgap until the US either stops being retarded or stops being relevant to the decision.

Anon09/08/26, 22:00No.65493070

It looks like his art made a Korean new, lol.https://x.com/Para919/status/2097338233504100570

Anon09/09/26, 07:31No.65494344

Schizo answer:We are currently at the end of the astrological age of Pisces, due to the waning of Pisces, the opposite sign, Virgo is ascendant, which is why the last few hundred years saw the development of science and technology. As we move into the age of Aquarius the highly specific and autistically optimized Virgoan technology will be flattened, abstracted and universalised.We are already seeing this trend, and it will continue and intensify. The optimal firearm designs in every niche, AR, Mauser style bolt actions, MP5, glock, etc., will become universal, existing as standard digital templates made in every corner of the world on cnc machines from digital designs owned by no one and used by everyone.We are in for 1000 years of generic and interchangable firearms, until the sign of Aquarius starts to decline, and the opposite sign, Leo, rises. At which point we will not see many new technical designs, but we will see a lot of cosmetically unique, dripped out and individualised weapons, to match the individualistic narcissism that characterises Leo.