Frag Out! Magazine
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G36 After initial tests there were few remarks about GROT – we will not focus here on debate whether real are more or less trustful reports and focus on one element that wake up lot of controversies. Now we are talking about safety switch/fire selector lever that, according to to fashion, is ambidextrous. Unlike most of the moderns rifles that follow AR-15/-18 layout in bigger or smaller part, its has 45 degree rotation and not the 90 degree rotation when it comes to the full-auto mode. In effect shooters that are used to "default" fire selector known from M4 and its derivatives, may instinctively switch GROT from "safe" to "full auto". Shooters that used AK/AKM/Beryl platrom do not have this problem because transition to GROT rifles will be accompanied by totally changing habits during the training. Anyway, „problem" of the fire selector is picked up by some people that have contact with the GROT. Even leading manufacturers of firearms such as FN or HK as well as other armies bigger that Polish (for example Bundeswerh) use it and can live with it. Actually, sound logical that "stressed" soldier, even well trained, can against his will set the selector to full auto, but soldiers train to avoid such a situation. Even the G36 has fire selector similar to Grot… I think there are four ways to solve this problem: 1. Leave it as it is, having in mind that GROT will first get to WOT and to land forces afterwards. In the latter, the AK-based platform is used so change of primary weapon will cause necessity of training, where everything is different from what soldiers know about weapon system. The only common thing between GROT and Beryl is caliber. In WOT we will find people who came from big army or came straight from civilian world (we omit cadre that comes from POLSOF and used different systems from years), so they have to go through whole training process anyway. Then they can learn how to properly work with that new rifle. Argument that they train on the civilian shooting ranges by themselves or as a part of some sort www.fragoutmag.com