Commercially imported FN FAL rifles that are .308 marked will handle both .308 and 7.62 NATO rounds, ... That said, many FAL owners buy NATO-spec ammo, ...

Commercially imported FN FAL rifles that are .308 marked will handle both .308 and 7.62x51 mm rounds, ... That said, many FAL owners buy NATO spec ammo, ...

You can shoot prairie dogs with a .308 (although it spoils a lot of meat), and African ivory poachers used to kill elephants with FN-FAL rifles loaded with 7.62 military ammo.

It’s designed to feed ammo from the FN/FAL metric pattern 20-round magazines, has an 18.5” barrel length and a 5 pound trigger. The primary controls, as mentioned, are 100% ambidextrous.