- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Shadow_WarriorX
dont bump (mods plz leave this thread alone unless he repeatedly does it). The real world Assault Rifles are more like the Battle Rifle anyway. The first ARs in WWII were a mix of the SMGs and the single shot bolt action rifles. And then the M16 is probably the most well known and most used rifle in the modern world and guess what it fires 3 shot burst and can single fire for increased range and sniping with optional scopes so in this sense the BR is alot like the M16. not to nit pick, but the M16 really isn't used that much outside of the United States Army, or well known. now, the AK-47, that's a nearly 40 year old assault rifle and it's every where. and the M16 can do full auto or semi auto (with, as you say, optional scopes), like the M6D pistol (bizarre, no?). the M4 does three shot bursts, and it's the M16's midget brother. However, the real world state of modern weapons and there designations hasn't much bearing in halo. so that dude who keeps using the argument the sub-machine guns and assault rifles are in a different classes can shut the hell up, because the MA5B doesn't really belong in the assault rifle class as we know it, it's actually more of a really crappy squad automatic weapon or something. Besides, the BR does the same thing as the pistol, a powerful, medium range weapon with a nice rate of fire, and the smg does the same thing as the AR.