DSK wrote:

It's one of the settings for select fire. Pull the trigger, it
squirts out 3. Usually a pretty tight group even from the shoulder, too.


I think it must be a different rifle than the NATO version 'cos the
selector on the ones I've fired only had a safe and semi position.


All the NATO infantry arms I'm familiar with have full auto, some have
3-round burst.

As for 3-round burst selective fire, you could learn a little about it
with a very simple Google search.

... To modify it to full auto was, I believe, a courts martial offense.


I didn't realize that any national army didn't trust it's infantrymen
with the option of full auto fire.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/FN%20FAL

"The British adopted their own variant of the FAL and manufactured it
based on an imperial measurement pattern, and incorporated minor
amendments, including folding cocking handle, prong shaped flash
eliminator, folding rear sight, sand removing cuts in the slide and
beefed up magazine catch. The UK variant, and many others, is
semi-automatic only."

Now how do you explain that? It would seem to agree with my recollection
would it not?

Cheers