FAMAE SG542 - Post range reports here!

[r_taylor]

Anybody have any experience with their .223 brother, the 540?

With a bit of tuning, both rifles are accurate. We have shot several tuned 540's at the 300 meter Swiss rifle club range. With GP90 ammo, on par with the PE90. Out of the box they tend to be a bit rough, but worth the tuning effort.

 

[TRaTSeRiF]

my uncle is a carabinero for 35 years in santiago, my dad is a milico for 40 years,my cousins were dina and cni. i grew up with automatic weapons, helicopters 50 meters from my house and we show our ids at any police stop only to be saluted and let thru. i grew up in salinas base were my dad and moms brother were housed there when training at the busos tacticos naval base or navy seals. we have hk 36cs we have uzis, we have m16s ,shotguns, rifles ect. most chilean civilians are allowed 1 firearm for home protection and 100 rounds and as many firears as they want for sporting and hunting as long as they pass a criminial check, a doctors exam, a psychiatrist examination and then go to military to pay for the rest. But with military id there are no checks.

It looks like you are coming from a well-connected background so your experience would differ from a typical Chilean sport shooter. For home defense, the limit for most civilians is 2 guns, but if you're a sports shooter, you can have up to 8. For a buddy who's an IPSC shooter and even went through the red tape to be allowed to reload (major hoops to jump through), I'm going through the process of just getting a plain-old AR into the country.. That involves converting it to manual action (permanently plug the A2 block, take out the gas tube), erasing any mention of 5.56 (military caliber) or "semi-auto" from it and jumping through more red tape than you can imagine. You come from different circumstances, where you had much better conditions for sport shooting. That's great and I really am happy for you, but most other Chilean shooters are a lot worse off than Canadians in just about everything except for:
1) No mag capacity limits
2) Being able to buy a gun for the purpose of defending their home

With that being said, before the laws got tighter, my wife's grandmother used to walk around with 2 revolvers in her purse.. Came in useful in discouraging some young men from alternative income generation, once or twice