U.S. Marines retiring the M40

What about something like 7.92x41mm CETME?

Oh god that round and I have some bad memories. It kicks like a mule on meth but goddamn its a flat shooting round.
Its so funny to see boutique rifle rounds try and replicate results done in the fucking 60s.

honestly have no idea what that is. Looks very similar to the Kurz round of the stg but with more power, but then we're approaching 300 blackout territory.

that's mainly why I'm pretty pissed off at this 6.5 mememoor craze: we already have rounds of the same caliber and which do stuff just as well, if not better. The whole thing is a craven corporate marketing campaign to steal your money.

Hell, even the boutique .270 weatherby mag has been killing shit for ages. The civilian market perfects a round, 50 years later the US military adopts a modification of an already existing round for arbitrary reasons over the parent or predecessor.
This is a bunch of idiots shooting dead pigs with Thompsons to prove to the Army that .45 ACP for pistols and .30cal for rifles is the best shit ever and any other idea reeks of homosexuality.

The problem that I have with the winchester magnum series of stuff is its belted ammunition where as the mememore will actually work in something that isn't just a bolt action

I'm a mouthbreather myself, but I don't know of any problems with 338 lapua?

The only "issue" is that complete no nothings drooled over it being a super special sniper round for a long time. So it became a meme.

cost. $3 per shot.
it's powerful but not enough to really be anti-material, but it's still so powerful that it requires a heavy gun to shoot effectively, and the 300 win mag isn't that far behind it in terms of trajectory, using elite ammo that is. It's really a strange round.

Does this mean cheap surplus m40s or is it all going to leo?

Yeah I am sure le based Trump will get right on having the muhreens give them to the CMP.