Is it just me or would a small little .223 rifle with 10 round en bloc clips be pretty neat. I wouldn't want to be forced to use it, but it would be pretty neat. Basically a small Garand in different calibers.
Yeh, that's the gun that Ruger was just about to turn the Mini into if need be and law demanded (or the apocryphal story goes). I'm very devoted to the en-bloc system on the Garand and actually prefer it to mag feeding--capacity and top off being the downside. It is truly a one handed operation and the supply of Garand clips is almost endless in practical terms.
But with the price of 5.56 being what it is, .06 is today's bargain.