Talk:SB-762 Battle Rifle/@comment-100.36.61.133-20180802041113

The lancer variant has detachable magazines. The reload animation shows Jensen pulling out the magazine and replacing it.

Also battle rifles don't have to be select fire. A battle rifle is just a word for a rifle issued into service with a country's military, or a service rifle. After WWII, you had countries issuing rifles that were not assault rifles, i.e. select fire rifles firing an intermediate cartridge, and not bolt action rifles like the ones that most nations other than the US started the war with. There was not a good term to refer to a rifle that was select fire or semi-automatic and that fired a full sized rifle round. Hence people retroactively started calling them battle rifles.

A lot of these battle rifles before countries adopted assault rifles were designed to allow them to be issued as select fire rifles, but it is not part of the definition and a lot of the rifles were issued as semi-auto only. Britain and its colonies fielded the fn fal as the l1a1 rifle and it most were issued as semi only rifle. The m14s issued by the US were often issued without the fire selector included which locked them to semi-auto only.