[golux]

remedial actions to clear malfunctions....

The only rifle I know of that's so basically shoddy it has a special plunger to clear all the jams. Ugly as sin, to boot. To think of all our men betrayed by that rifle over the years.

[BwanaNdege]

To think of all our men betrayed by that rifle over the years.

During my time in Vietnam, the only failure to fire I experience was after I'd disassembled to lower receiver for cleaning (this was either strongly discouraged or prohibited). When I reassembled it, this genius neglected to put the legs of a spring over the retaining notches on a pin. The pin drifted out the next time I fired a magazine and the weapon locked up. Entirely my fault.

Stateside, I never had a failure to fire or to chamber a round.