I'd be nice to update given the the EU spec MR223s are like 3-4 generations ahead of the MR556 right now. Either HK have way too many A1s sitting around or something, given that they can't be selling that many 223A3s in the EU with so many EU countries having BS gun control laws, including Germany to a large extent.
MR556 is based on the original 416. The MR223A3 is based on the 416A5. I don't think I can list (or remember) a full list of changes (which are mostly detail), but there were quite a few, as the 416A5 was the production version of the 416 IC designed for the US Army's aborted Individual Carbine program.
One can only hope the A3 variant is coming. But I remember reading a thread from a few years ago that there's a legal aspect to it as well. Hopefully I am wrong though.
Isn’t the M27 just an A1 with different barrels and some minor tweaks? Wasn’t that the entire point of the US expansion to accommodate the US Contracts?
Just my .02
Also, screw the 416 gimme some of that 433 goodness!!!
Picked it up yesterday at Cabela's. Wow, they are inept but that's a story for another thread. I bot the FDE Rem-Defense handguard from eurooptic in the 14.5" length. VLTOR EMOD stock in FDE and an ELCAN Specter DR 1-4.
I got one for about 3k several months ago. Saw one in black just last week for nearly 4k.
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