How Reliable Are the US M-16 and M-4 Rifles and Their Ammunition? - XDTalk Forums

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Few issues are more personal to soldiers than the question of whether they can trust their rifles. And few rifles in history have generated more controversy over their reliability than the American M-16 assault rifle and its carbine version, the M-4. In recent weeks, a fresh round of complaints about weapon malfunctions in Afghanistan, mentioned in an Army historian's report that documented... [New York Times / At War: Notes From the Front Lines, Blog, via gunpolicy.org ]

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11-04-2009, 08:10 PM	#1
XDTalk RSS XDTalk Robot News Feed Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4,507	How Reliable Are the US M-16 and M-4 Rifles and Their Ammunition? Few issues are more personal to soldiers than the question of whether they can trust their rifles. And few rifles in history have generated more controversy over their reliability than the American M-16 assault rifle and its carbine version, the M-4. In recent weeks, a fresh round of complaints about weapon malfunctions in Afghanistan, mentioned in an Army historian's report that documented... [New York Times / At War: Notes From the Front Lines, Blog, via gunpolicy.org ] More...
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