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Introduction

  The idea of the FC rifle came about when it was found out just how time consuming and expensive the M2 was to produce. Experiments were done on making a M2 Garand rifle receiver out of cast steel but was found not to be satisfactory. So a idea to make a cheap semi automatic battle rifle in .303 was talked about by the gunsmiths of the factory. the idea was accepted by the Caugax Council, after finding out the cost of making the milled steel m2 rifle. As a starting point for the rifle the gunsmiths converted several semi automatic rifles like the 7.62.54r SVT-40 and Colombian FN-49 in .30.06 to use .303 British ammunition and Bren gun magazines. Due to the fact the SVT-40 `s used of rimmed 7.62×54mmR round which was similar to .303 British and that they had plenty of said guns in stock from the red curtain shipment. They found great success with the SVT 40 rifles but the receivers were found to be time consuming to make. That was until a woman called Felicia Felix, a draughtswoman under Don Bento`s employ showed her plans for a more simplified receiver. The plans were good so Don Bento appointed Jose Cruz, a naturalized U.S citizen machinist, gunsmith and national guard reservist to Felicia to work on the receiver. Jose earlier had that talked to Don Bento on making copies of the FN FAL to armed the Irish in the early days after the flash but was refused due to the fact the the guns were expensive to make. With a CAD model made in two days they presented there work to Don bento.  Impressed Don Bento appointed Felicia and Jose to make and perfect the new rifle. After two weeks the 10 prototype rifles was complete and was tested by the national guard. The prototypes passed the torture test with flying colors but it still had a few flaws that needed to be fix. The prototype rifles was built in two weeks using parts from various guns. The trigger mechanism a SVT 40 rifle. The gas system and hand guard came from a Brazilian FN FAL. That receiver and cover were made custom were made in a local metal shop while the rear sights are from the SMILE . The magazine was a modified Bren gun magazine made to hold 20 rounds The FC prototype greatly impressed the council and was adopted but they said it needed modifications to suit cheaper production. So Felicia and Jose with backing and money from the Council made the gun better. This simplified rifle became the FC MK1. The one of the prototypes is still in possession of the Felix/Cruz family

The rifle started production on April 6 1921 two months after the valley was chucked back to the past. A batch of 2,000 rifles were sent to the national guard and the 3rd west cork brigade for testing along with the modified SVT-40 and FN 49 rifles. Although the initial production of FC-21 received positive feedback from the troops. There was a few bugs to work out on the rifle. Due to the rushed production of the rifle the gun was roughly made and had sometimes sharp edges. This was quite common in the early days that if a soldier nicked himself on dissembling the rifle it meant that the soldier would have good luck for life. This was quickly found to be cause by improperly sharpened tools and inexperienced workers. This soon was fixed with the help of downtime Irish and later German gunsmiths and metal workers.

  Despite being popular the rifle looked very bulky and rough by both the Irish and the Puerto Ricans troops. So the FC rifle MK 1 was nicknamed Betty la fea or Ugly Betty in English, after the main character in the world's acclaimed Colombian telenovela "Yo soy Betty, la fea".  The FC was first used in the field by the 3rd west cork brigade in limited numbers on loan from the city state of Caugax, who wanted to test the new rifle in the field. As expected, the design was highly effective in terms of reliability and firepower. By late June 1921 half of the time traveler`s army were armed with the FC rifle and about 70,000 FC rifles were said to be in possession of the IRA. By the end of the war approximately 19.8 million rifles had been produced. The mass production of the FC lead to its distribution throughout the world. Although largely dismissed by other nations, the rifle became popular in allies of the Irish mainly Puerto Rico and India it was also sold to numerous paramilitary and revolutionary factions throughout the world, especially in Africa and South America.

2.  FC-21 MK 1: The FC 21 came about due to the request by the council on modifications the new rifle. To satisfy the council many features were copied from the .30-06 FN-49 a battle rifle that were plenty of them from smuggling from Colombia and Venezuela and liked by the council's war veteran members. So the rifle was lengthened to 1116 mm (43.5 in) to accommodate the recoil from the .303 ammo. The gunstock was a stronger modified M1 Garand style gunstock made of Puerto Rican roble oak wood and later on native irish oak. While the top hand guard was made of AG-4S glass reinforced phenolic resin plastic. One very clever feature of the MC-21 was the use of the lee Enfield MK3 rear sights this was a way for soldier to get use to the rear sights on a real MK3 lee Enfield rifle and make it so army vets from the British army that sided to the IRA could trained the rebels could use more easily. The muzzle break is a modified copy of the SVT-40 muzzle break made to accept the Pattern 1907 bayonet. A Trigger mechanism copied from the Chinese Type 63 rifle was tested on the FC-21 to make it select fire. But that had mixed results.  This version of the rifle is the most prolific being seen in action during the troubles in Puerto Rico chambered in .30-06  to use in the Chinese civil war in 8mm mauser.

3.  The FC 21 MK2 This version of the FC-21 was developed around the same time that the MK1 specifically to make the FC 21 more easy to handle and and modernized it up to 21th century standards. This version of the FC-21 was inspired by tactical gunstocks for SKS carbine made by tapico. It was quite easy to fabricate the lower receiver of the original FN FAL to fit the FC-21 due to its stamped steel nature. This lower receiver also had a selector switch for full automatic, with the pistol grip it was thought of being easier to control in full automatic. this version of the FC-21 came along side the MK1. In the post war years this was the main battle rifle of the Irish army until the 1980s with it being replaced with the AR-18. The rifle is still in use by the Garda and both the MK1 and MK2 are widespread in civilian hands today.

Description

Hey guys it me again this is the last weapon ref for the time being. But keep a look out you may see some character work soon
Introduction

  The idea of the FC rifle came about when it was found out just how time consuming and expensive the M2 was to produce. Experiments were done on making a M2 Garand rifle receiver out of cast steel but was found not to be satisfactory. So a idea to make a cheap semi automatic battle rifle in .303 was talked about by the gunsmiths of the factory. the idea was accepted by the Caugax Council, after finding out the cost of making the milled steel m2 rifle. As a starting point for the rifle the gunsmiths converted several semi automatic rifles like the 7.62.54r SVT-40 and Colombian FN-49 in .30.06 to use .303 British ammunition and Bren gun magazines. Due to the fact the SVT-40 `s used of rimmed 7.62×54mmR round which was similar to .303 British and that they had plenty of said guns in stock from the red curtain shipment. They found great success with the SVT 40 rifles but the receivers were found to be time consuming to make. That was until a woman called Felicia Felix, a draughtswoman under Don Bento`s employ showed her plans for a more simplified receiver. The plans were good so Don Bento appointed Jose Cruz, a naturalized U.S citizen machinist, gunsmith and national guard reservist to Felicia to work on the receiver. Jose earlier had that talked to Don Bento on making copies of the FN FAL to armed the Irish in the early days after the flash but was refused due to the fact the the guns were expensive to make. With a CAD model made in two days they presented there work to Don bento.  Impressed Don Bento appointed Felicia and Jose to make and perfect the new rifle. After two weeks the 10 prototype rifles was complete and was tested by the national guard. The prototypes passed the torture test with flying colors but it still had a few flaws that needed to be fix. The prototype rifles was built in two weeks using parts from various guns. The trigger mechanism a SVT 40 rifle. The gas system and hand guard came from a Brazilian FN FAL. That receiver and cover were made custom were made in a local metal shop while the rear sights are from the SMILE . The magazine was a modified Bren gun magazine made to hold 20 rounds The FC prototype greatly impressed the council and was adopted but they said it needed modifications to suit cheaper production. So Felicia and Jose with backing and money from the Council made the gun better. This simplified rifle became the FC MK1. The one of the prototypes is still in possession of the Felix/Cruz family

The rifle started production on April 6 1921 two months after the valley was chucked back to the past. A batch of 2,000 rifles were sent to the national guard and the 3rd west cork brigade for testing along with the modified SVT-40 and FN 49 rifles. Although the initial production of FC-21 received positive feedback from the troops. There was a few bugs to work out on the rifle. Due to the rushed production of the rifle the gun was roughly made and had sometimes sharp edges. This was quite common in the early days that if a soldier nicked himself on dissembling the rifle it meant that the soldier would have good luck for life. This was quickly found to be cause by improperly sharpened tools and inexperienced workers. This soon was fixed with the help of downtime Irish and later German gunsmiths and metal workers.

  Despite being popular the rifle looked very bulky and rough by both the Irish and the Puerto Ricans troops. So the FC rifle MK 1 was nicknamed Betty la fea or Ugly Betty in English, after the main character in the world's acclaimed Colombian telenovela "Yo soy Betty, la fea".  The FC was first used in the field by the 3rd west cork brigade in limited numbers on loan from the city state of Caugax, who wanted to test the new rifle in the field. As expected, the design was highly effective in terms of reliability and firepower. By late June 1921 half of the time traveler`s army were armed with the FC rifle and about 70,000 FC rifles were said to be in possession of the IRA. By the end of the war approximately 19.8 million rifles had been produced. The mass production of the FC lead to its distribution throughout the world. Although largely dismissed by other nations, the rifle became popular in allies of the Irish mainly Puerto Rico and India it was also sold to numerous paramilitary and revolutionary factions throughout the world, especially in Africa and South America.

2.  FC-21 MK 1: The FC 21 came about due to the request by the council on modifications the new rifle. To satisfy the council many features were copied from the .30-06 FN-49 a battle rifle that were plenty of them from smuggling from Colombia and Venezuela and liked by the council's war veteran members. So the rifle was lengthened to 1116 mm (43.5 in) to accommodate the recoil from the .303 ammo. The gunstock was a stronger modified M1 Garand style gunstock made of Puerto Rican roble oak wood and later on native irish oak. While the top hand guard was made of AG-4S glass reinforced phenolic resin plastic. One very clever feature of the MC-21 was the use of the lee Enfield MK3 rear sights this was a way for soldier to get use to the rear sights on a real MK3 lee Enfield rifle and make it so army vets from the British army that sided to the IRA could trained the rebels could use more easily. The muzzle break is a modified copy of the SVT-40 muzzle break made to accept the Pattern 1907 bayonet. A Trigger mechanism copied from the Chinese Type 63 rifle was tested on the FC-21 to make it select fire. But that had mixed results.  This version of the rifle is the most prolific being seen in action during the troubles in Puerto Rico chambered in .30-06  to use in the Chinese civil war in 8mm mauser.

3.  The FC 21 MK2 This version of the FC-21 was developed around the same time that the MK1 specifically to make the FC 21 more easy to handle and and modernized it up to 21th century standards. This version of the FC-21 was inspired by tactical gunstocks for SKS carbine made by tapico. It was quite easy to fabricate the lower receiver of the original FN FAL to fit the FC-21 due to its stamped steel nature. This lower receiver also had a selector switch for full automatic, with the pistol grip it was thought of being easier to control in full automatic. this version of the FC-21 came along side the MK1. In the post war years this was the main battle rifle of the Irish army until the 1980s with it being replaced with the AR-18. The rifle is still in use by the Garda and both the MK1 and MK2 are widespread in civilian hands today.