Kinda weird, mixing tacticool rig with wooden stock/grip. But then, I suppose a shrine maiden wouldn't know that.

Reav said:
Kinda weird, mixing tacticool rig with wooden stock/grip. But then, I suppose a shrine maiden wouldn't know that.

No, not really. The Russians did it when retrofitting their old arsenal (AK47s and some AK74s), the Chinese do it off and on, and that's pretty much all of the North Korean arsenal.
...Unless that's changed in the last 10 years, which is unlikely.
It could also be synthetics printed to look like wood merely for taste, you never know.
Personally, I like the look of wood on a gun yet desire the function of tactical rigging... so, for someone training in gunsmithing, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to make one like this.

I think that's an FN-FAL anyway, some of them were made like that earlier on.
Not that great of a gun, though I'd still pick it over the M4.

It's the Japanese battle rifle if the 64 is any indication. Howa Type 64 iirc? Too lazy to tab to wiki.

jusu said:
It's the Japanese battle rifle if the 64 is any indication. Howa Type 64 iirc? Too lazy to tab to wiki.

Basically the FAL with an improved buffer, shortened barrel, and slightly reduced power round... if memory serves. Designed for 'faster strike units', or something like that, truth was they wanted something that was better suited to physically weaker individuals.
But I was just being too lazy meself to check my gunbooks... sorta a gun-fanatic, so I should know these things by now... but that equates to study.

grand_zero said:
Basically the FAL with an improved buffer, shortened barrel, and slightly reduced power round... if memory serves. Designed for 'faster strike units', or something like that, truth was they wanted something that was better suited to physically weaker individuals.
But I was just being too lazy meself to check my gunbooks... sorta a gun-fanatic, so I should know these things by now... but that equates to study.

But it specifically says Howa Type 64 and it matches it in every way...

First we have Metal Slug Marisa and now it's Metal Slug Reimu!

Chaika said:
But it specifically says Howa Type 64 and it matches it in every way...

...What I said (in what you quoted) was that the Howa T-64 is basically the FN-FAL with the afforementioned changes.
I got a couple bits wrong, looking back, but it's what I said.
I tend to refer to guns by their parent archtype, for example I still call the M249 the FN Minimi even though there've been some (sizable) changes made to it for US service.
Meh, it's just me.