DSK wrote:

Nav wrote:

Well I've not found a reference to the FN-FAL rifle you said you fired
in automatic 3 round bursts.


Did I say it was an FAL? I don't think so, because I don't think it was.
FN is a manufacturer & design group that makes many different weapons.

Well, I'll quote you:

"Once upon a time while roaming around at a shooting event on a military
base, I got a chance to try out a couple of select fire military arms
(including a Galil and an FN-FAL) with 3-round burst. It is a huge
advantage over timed fire. "


... I am well aware of how it can be simply altered to be full
automatic (if that is what one wants).


All that stuff about making a semi into a fully automatic by filing a
little off the sear, or some other simple change one might make in one's
garage, is nonsense.

Well it's hard to file hardened steel, grinding is better I've not
seen the modification but it was certainly talked about. What is the
difference between the semi-automatic sear and the automatic one?


... Can you help me find how it can be altered in the way you describe?


It wasn't altered, it was built that way. I believe that it has an
additional gas expansion chamber to operate the 3-round selected fire.


That sounds like a complicated modification. Did the rifle look like a
FN-FAL or was there an extra bulge in it for the extra gas expansion
chamber? Can you find a picture of it?


There were several 3-round capable weapons being handed around, one was
the well known H&K MP5.

The one I would really like a chance to try is the G-11
http://www.hkpro.com/g11.htm
Do you think this would make a good cruiser's gun?


It looks OTT. Complicated mechanism + caseless ammunition? How would it
take being drenched in salt water? I would think simple mechanisms are
better at sea -if you must have anything more dangerous than a flare gun...

I hear arguments both ways on the gun issue. I would guess that on a
small yacht you are not going to survive a fire fight with pirates so it
may be better not to start one. As far as I know, big ships relay on
trying to stop boarding rather than enter into a fire fight if boarded.

Cheers