look end of the Day this all started with me posting a video of someone shooting a NSR and his reactions of the experience.
Kinda smallish charging handle, Wonky sights Accurate-ish , Spongy long Trigger ( common complaint for bullpups), non beveled magazine well and rightly only. but for that it's a comfortable gun to shoot, soft recoil, can be limited use of left shoot but not for long. lightweight, So more or less the grade here sounds like a C- nothing special.
But Price is low about 2 NSR for the price of a FS2000
Which was nicely finished by Pi with. "you get what you pay for."
Now remember this was the Canadian NSR Type 97. not the top of the line QBZ 97. the magazines used here were canadian legal 5 round AR type.
what this means is that the NSR is using the weakest link in the AR series the Magazine. and carries over the weakest links from the QBZ95 gen 1 in that it doesn't have the improvements made in the QBZ95-1.
the complaint of the sights in the videos Front sight is AK style which is okay. The rear sight needs some work. 4 settings 3 peeps which is weird as why? one of the sights is a post that would block the front sight. The others are squared aperture sights. which is okay but based on description just sort of fuzz out.
The Ejection port is pretty far forward on the weapon and apparently with good ammo ejection is forward this allows some left shooting but not total operation. basically you can corner with it.
The magazine would vary based on version so would issues.
95-1 is known to have added a case deflector around the ejection port.
Selector is far to the rear this we know is corrected on the 95-1. no word on Trigger pull. but I doubt the PLA would have paid Norinco to change that. Fact is most military weapons have long creepy trigger pulls bullpup or otherwise. Another change made in the 95-1 was the addition of a bolt release behind the magazine ejection latch.
Charging handle is on the small side for a single small finger.
The Disassembly video mentioned the adjustable gas block a feature almost never mentioned in these that is gaining popularity these days. this is a bypass on the gas system so if the gun is having issues like fouling the user can choose to over gas the system. a number of weapons have been getting these lately to aid in suppression of the weapon by restricting amount of gas in the system allowing more control as Suppressors over gas. this allows the user to move from normal to adverse. normal being the smaller gas intake well adverse opens up wider. Of course this has the downside of meaning a faster rate of fire and more wear on the weapon. The QBZ version has a bullet casing key shaped into the switch which is nice for a hot gun, but is shaped for the 5.8x42mm case so it's meant for the 95.
Non captive pins. Common problem for a number of weapons. Captive pins means that you less parts that can get lost in maintenance and field strip . not a need though most world's weapons don't have them.