The G36 is definitely an interesting very late 20th century Assault Rifle that was designed in the 90's to replace the old G3 Rifle being used by the German Military. You can find the G36 in a ton of Hollywood movies as it looks very futuristic. The Rifle is interesting in it's design making good use of Steel inserts in a reinforced polymer case with see-through magazines with molded on clips that allow magazines to be clipped together. The fire mechanism is also interesting as a modified short stoke gas piston with the charging handle mounted to the top of the firearm allowing for ambidextrous use along with the fire-select switch and magazine release. With the gas piston system it also allows the Rifle to come with a skeletonized folding stock a first at the time for anything other than the crappy wire version that you could get with the AK-47.
As a civilian the only version you could get was the SL8 that had an entirely different modular stock I've seen both but haven't had a chance to fire either one as the SL8 was $2200 and the G36 was a privately owned conversion with a G3 trigger pack. I definitely wouldn't mind owning a converted semi-auto G36 it looks like it would be an interesting rifle to have and shoot. But until then you'll just have to watch some videos like I do.
There was a plan to create an SAW version of the G36 as well but from what I understood back in the day it was canceled because the rate of fire would melt the plastic furniture not exactly a good thing.
