Canada Selects New Army Rifle

Wonder what they do with all the surplus rifles? https://armourersbench.com/2026/03/22/canada-adopts-new-rifle/ The Canadian Armed Forces are set to adopt variants of Colt Canada’s MRR as the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle (CMAR). The announcement stated that up to 65,000 rifles may be procured over the next 5 years to replace the Colt Canada C7 rifles and C8 carbines currently in Canadian service. According to the Canadian government, the contract will be for the procurement of up to 65,402 weapons: 16,195 will be the Canadian Armed Forces’ Full Spectrum (FS) variant, and the remaining 49,207 will be the General Service (GS) variant.