wally
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I've yet to see a working CETME.
Then you must be blind. I've two that are 100% reliable. They are not hard to find at ~$400 or a bit less. Do your homework and know what to look for and its not hard to find a good one. OTOH if you order sight unseen at the lowest possible price you are pretty much certain to get one of the bad ones.
Biggest + for CETME and FAL(metric) is cheap and widely available spare mags -- very important for a plinker/blaster IMHO. Most of the "newer" CAI CETMEs with black furniture also take HK91/G3 mags which can be found for <$2 each in aluminum.
--wally.