WOW, I would totally be all over spending thousands of bux on a un tested, un proven,

POLISH

rifle
It looks pretty cool I'll admit that, but let's let them issue it to some troops and work out the kinks that come around in any new platform, before we go jerking off to it at night

I'm curious to see where the program goes in the next few years. Perhaps it will be revolutionary, perhaps a flop, only time will tell.
I did notice a few things though:
On the first pic, it looks like the grip is part of the lower, maybe my eyes playing tricks on me but that seems silly.
Also the bull-pup version is not just a conversion, it's a completely different stock, probably slightly altered internals also, really might make a difference in performance and reliability between the two.
While I love seeing TI bring in whatever they can, let's hope it's not a bunch of cheap "under $1000" rifle's. Don't get me wrong, I like saving my pennies as much as the next guy, but $1000 doesn't buy you much of a rifle for a reason, anything that cheap is usually (not always) cheap for a reason... I understand that they have to import rifles for the "cheap" crowd too

, but I think they should focus on bringing in quality platforms, as opposed to cheap under $1000 ones

I'm waiting on the 542