[Steve Van Doorn]

Snopes says Mattel didn’t make the plastic parts and Modern Marvels says they did.

Seems there were a lot of manufactures that made the parts over the years. I don’t have an answer.

[SJSAMPLE]

I’ve read a number of books, including “The Black Rifle”, on the subject, and none of them gave any credibility to a single Mattel story.

Sometimes, I watch Discovery and History and even The Military Channel, and constantly slap my palm to my fore head (AGNTSA).

Even saw a very smart, educated and factually proficient professional claim on The History Channel that in Vietnam, the M-16 rounds would “swell in the chamber overnight” and lock up the action. I’m sure he meant something else, but his exact words were bizarro.