FAMAS is a bullpup-styled assault rifle designed and manufactured in France by MAS, which is now a member of the French government-owned Nexter group. It is the service rifle of the French military. The FAMAS assault rifle is a bullpup configuration, with the ammunition feed behind the trigger. The receiver housing is made of a special steel alloy, and the rifle furniture is made of fiberglass. The rifle uses a lever-delayed blowback action, an action used on the AA-52 machine gun derived from the prototypes built during Army Technical Department tests having taken place between the First and Second World Wars.
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