Bullpups, good or bad?
It's a definite yes from me! For the first six weeks of my training I used the SLR, and once I moved to Catterick for Basic Gunner training, it was the SA80/LSW all the way. And even though I was left handed and was issued with the A1 version, I still loved it. It had a great balance, the sling was a work of genius, and it was loads shorter than your average rifle config. And bullpups also meant that there wasn’t any appreciable reduction in barrel length, which meant you still had good accuracy and muzzle velocity. Bullpups aren’t hugely new, with the British EM-2 almost making it to universal adoption just after WW2. After passing Basics and being posted to a squadron, I was issued an SLR once again for a couple of months, but despite all of the old school fanbois banging on about how the SLR could shoot an elephant stone dead (because you really do see lots of elephants on the battlefield), I was perfectly happy with my bullpup SA80 that no one else seemed to like. But bullpup...