Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Bren 805: A Rifle for the Post-Communist Czech Army" video.

The GIGN invited him specifically to come take a look in their arms vault. The GIGN don't even invite French people to see that. The founder of the GIGN gave Ian a personal interview... and apologized for not speaking English with a straight face. The French categorically don't do that. So when people call him Gun Jesus... you better believe it if he says he can walk on bullets!
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The thing just is that the BREN 805 is an AR at it's core. And it had problems other AR derivatives had solved long since. But the anecdote about not wanting a telescoping stock but then wanting a telescoping stock probably says the most about it's development: too much brass wanting to have a say in things they were no longer qualified to speak up about due to too much time behind a desk and not enough time in the mud, fog, mountains, rivers, ditches and forests...
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10% are rocking with the south paw... So if you want 10% of your army to perform suboptimally just make sure everything is right-hand-only.... simple...
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It's more of a fancy AR18. Both the fire control group and the bolt carrier and locking mechanism are straight up AR18. If they had moved the charging handle to the stock it would have been an AR18...
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While I'm bored to tears of AR derivatives I have to say: it's an easy and well tested method of getting a bolt locking system that works well across a wide range of calibres in a wide range of environmental conditions.
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@brettalexander220 Some people are actually capable of evaluating firearms in and of themselves without politicising every little thing. This is a strange concept to many, I know, but if you listen to Ian for long enough you may one day be able to look at a weapon objectively too........
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