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Originally Posted by apoc527
Honestly, once you get out of regular Army/Navy/Air Force forces, more or less any weapon system is fair game. Special Forces are just that-- special--"standard issue" has far less meaning to them.
I would pick whatever works the best--probably some kind of AR-15 pattern rifle chambered for .300 BLK. Alternately, you can go with "these don't exist quite yet but they look really damn cool" weapons: http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/...-2016-release/ |
It's probably easier to avoid unwanted attention, both inside and outside the US government, when borrowing equipment already in stores and/or adding to procurement orders already in place than make a special purchase of a weapon system no one uses.
To some extent, having individual black ops operators buy the weapons on the commercial market using phony IDs might bypass this, but in that case, nothing that couldn't be bought at a gunshow would be available. Nothing that requires Class III status, NFA tax, etc. Semi-automatic only, no suppressors and probably not barrels threaded for them (even if technically legal, it brings undesirable attention). If they can get the surpressors through an alternate source (any .30 caliber suppressor would do, right?), it might not matter that the weapons are not selective fire, as highly skilled operators will rarely have occasion to use that feature anyway.