The FAL (French: Fusil Automatique Léger, English: Light Automatic Rifle) is a battle rifle designed in Belgium by Dieudonné Saive and manufactured by FN Herstal and others since 1953. During the Cold War the FAL was adopted by many countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with the notable exception of the United States.

The Dutch FAL is a metric pattern FAL and it has alot of unique features and changes to the FAL making it a very variant of the FAL. Like the original FAL, it is chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO and uses a short stroke gas piston and tilting bomt action.

Jul 26, 2015 · Recently, i got my hands on 5 different original Dutch FAL's, straight from a testting facility. All FAL's are working, and full auto if you use the funswitch. About everything is different in the Dutch FAL compared with the regular FAL's. 50% of the FAL's was assembled by Artillerie Inrichtingen, the same factory that made those nice AR10's

Mar 3, 2014 · FN found the type of success with the FAL that weapon company’s only dream about. Between 1953-1988, they made over 2-million of these guns for customers around the …

FAL Rifles for sale. Atlantic Firearms has a great selection FAL rifles from brands like DS Arms and others.

Apr 27, 2015 · The Dutch Army never sold any FAL parts or accesoiries to the public or shops so they are hard to find, even here in Holland. I do not yet made pictures of everything, but all stuff is NOS or in Mint condition.

Most FAL bayonets conform to three basic types: the Type A, Type B, and Type C, designed by FN in Belgium; and the L1 Series designed in Britain. FN's initial bayonet design was what we know today as the FAL Type A bayonet.

May 30, 2016 · The original Dutch has the exact same measurements as the standard FN, except for the ears and two extra cuts or grooves to slide the Dutch Hood over/in. Also 2 holes should be drilled to fix the hood with (preferrably) two rivets.

A Dutch marine seated in a Land Rover aims his FAL. Note the front and rear sights. With the AR-10 performing exceedingly poorly during trials - despite the Dutch military favouring it to some extent as a domestic rifle - the FN FAL was ultimately adopted.

Known in Dutch naval service as the mitrailleur van 7,62 mm NATO, FAL, FN (machine gun of 7,62 mm NATO, FAL, FN), the FALO replaced the American BAR M1918A2 (mitrailleur van 7,62 no.4).