[MaciekA]

There is a reason that ICS is naming this gun the "G33" and not "G36".

This is all meant as a clever way to get around the legal mess (and cost) of licensing and trade dress issues. It still strongly resembles a H&K G36 though, so you gotta wonder if they'll still get whacked as they go about selling this thing.

Echo1 has been getting away with selling their MTC series, which is also a license-dodging variant of the G36. ICS's design does look a whole lot more attractive than Echo1's peculiar "oval-hole" RIS / low-profile rail design -- and there's something to be said for that more G3-ish, vaguely UMP-esque stock.

With the legal action around these things heating up as it has been, complete with scandals playing out in front of customers and journalist observers at trade shows, I would expect more of these kinds of variants to continue to pile up. If I were ICS I wouldn't want to pay the licenses either.