After my sole very small experience with the British Enfield I have to admit I’m much more receptive to a bullpup design. Any of them would certainly allow a longer than 14″ barrel (major source of performance fall off with the 5.56) while retaining short over all length. And the rearward weight bias made for a very quick handling weapon too!

For the period of mid ‘04 to early ‘06 (while I was working in the W. Bank) we came into contect with many Israeli security force units. I kept my eye out the entire time, trying to catch a glimpse of a Tavor, but it just didn’t happen. Surprisingly, I didn’t spot that many Galils either; the vast bulk of the troops carried M4s or M16s! Admittedly, most of these units were reserve IDF, Magav (border police), or police and not the SF folks you’d expect to be amongst the first to get something new, like the Tavor.

My favortie memory of the period was being at a popular resort in the summer of ‘04, and seeing a very shapely young lady in a very skimpy blue bikini, walking along the edge of the pool with an M16A2 lung over her back! w00t!

There are plenty of options that work. Im a bullpup fan

Israeli Tavor, Sig Styr or the english bullpup are all fine weapons.

If you must go with a standard config then get the HK or XM8.

really, you shouldn’t listen to opinion, all those traditionalists of guns or people that scrutinize new or foreign designs have their head up their asses and need glass stomachs to see the light. Hitler halted production of the 2nd instituted assault rifle design and 1st to be standard issue(MP44, first assault rifle was the Fedorov Avtomat), simply because he didn’t see it as effective as a kar98 or gewehr43(stubborn firearms traditionalist), I probably wouldn’t be learning french right now if the anti semitic asshole didn’t have his head up his ass, opinion doesn’t matter, performance does