[tanknetter]

AK-47’s shoot 7.62x39mm ammo, AK-74’s shoot 5.45x39mm ammo, and the M-16 series shoots 5.56x39mm NATO.

A few years back DoD (not sure if it was under the auspices of the Army or Marine Corp) had a program that was playing around with putting a 7.62 receiver and barrel into either an M-16 or M-4. Reason was that US infantrymen/riflemen can only carry so much ammo into combat without sacrificing other important things ... and up in the mountains of A-stan (where the troops needed to go into combat carrying as little weight as practicable) they were finding all sorts of dropped 7.62 ammo that they could have used if they had rifles equipped to handle it.

So Obama may have part of the story correct, but he doesn't have the whole story -or the context- so he's spinning it into politicized BS. The context isn't that the US can't supply its troops with enough ammo ... it's that the troops sometimes can't take all the ammo they need into combat.

[Laverne]

Obama demonstrates his ignorance on basic governance here. It is NOT the president who funds, it is CONGRESS, and Obama voted NO to fund our troops.

What is amazing is that Campbell Brown is equally ignorant given there was NO follow-up on his ludicrous comment.

Typical liberal media.

[tanknetter]

I did a quick search - this is apparently what I recall reading about: SR-47