My favorite rifle! But I don't have any DSA's I built all of mine back when we were getting brand new cutup British FALs all are inch pattern built on Lithgow recievers, the Inch pattern guns will feed from either metric or inch mags the metric recievers only will accept metric mags, The only other two differences are the pistol grip mounting and the inch has the cool fold down charging lever, mine are all setup to hold bolt open on last round (ya just put the lil pin back in that the Brits removed for some reason) most of the guys setting up metric guns try to modify their recievers to accept the inch pattern charger and so on, mine required no mods, 3 of mine are Snipers 2 with original Trilux opics one is setup with a night scope which has taken out many Coyotes at 300 yards in total blackness with little effort, All 3 are heavy barrel versions the other 4 are original as issued in either wood or plastic furniture all 7 were built from unissued kits we imported in 1985 and so were never impacted by the AWB.
As far as inch mags they are readily available and run $15-$30 depending on where ya buy em. Metric mags fit perfectly in all of my rifles so I use them for plinking and save my stash of Inch mags which I bought when we bought all the kits for Special occasions ;-)
About third worlds right arm.... Actually ya might wanna look up the T-48 that is the American version of the FAL and what we would be carrieing today instead of a crappy lil .22 if the USA hadn't decided American soldiers could not handle the recoil of a .308 and having to carry the heavier ammo, too bad too cause now our guys are begging for weapons that are as reliable and have the stopping power of a FAL instead of said crappy lil .22, its really bad when they are collecting up AK47s to rely on instead of the plastic toy thats issued ;-) The FAL was the standard issued rifle of the British, the Belgiums, Austria well pretty much EVERY Free country other than the USA up untill only a few years ago, Now after seeing the ineffectivness of the M-16 platform and the problems of a 5.56 being effective against targets in Afganistan and Iraq many of those countries are looking at switching back to the .308, America has also started taking another look at the rifle they passed up simply cause the Eugene Stoner design could be built cheaper..... yep thats the ONLY reason the USA Dropped the T-48 cost of manufacture as we were not at War it was decided that a cheaper to produce weapon was the best way to cut military spending, so they took the original Stoner design and further cheapened it by cutting corners even further resulting in the piece of cr@p I spent 9 years of my life packing, got two nephews now one in Iraq the other in Afgan both detest the rifle America chose over the FAL or rather T-48, the T-48 was totally reliable very accurate its only failing was cost.... an alluminum/plastic rifle could be built cheaper especially if ya replaced most of the parts Stoner originally specified as milled for cheaper stamped parts etc... The T-48 was all steel and much more expensive especially as it required heavier machines to mill the harder steel while Alluminum was a piece of cake to work with. Cheaper recievers, cheaper stamped parts, cheaper barrels like they say America's military always turns to the lowest bidder then pays 3 times as much
Ya have to have at least one FAL based Rifle, it will become the one gun ya will never get rid of and if do ya'll always regret having done so. As far as kit built guns and quality..... uhhh ya do know that most of the DSA guns are built from kits right? Only the very high end of theirs are totally USA made rifles, the quality all depends on who is doing the building, I just picked up 5 Begium kits from a freinds Estate (I tried to buy em for several years while he was alive... he always laughed and said "over my dead body" well he did live up to that but he never did get em built) I'm planning to build all of em on DSA recievers, they are the best ya can get now, especially as a Lithgow reciever will run ya a grand if ya can find one,
I've had it order for months. It better be custom made by little elves for all the waiting I am doing.