***When he shot the AK47, he showed how comparatively inaccurate the weapon was,***
Inaccurate, yes. But the VALMET and GALIL versions were super accurate, from what I have read.
LOL...I don’t know enough about that, but...I will give the designer, whoever people say it was, his due.
It is a wildly successful design, in my eyes. I presume when you confront someone banging down a door ten paces away, something that can spray a larger caliber projectile without jamming and little training is probably a good thing!
I know it is also true that the M16 was problematic from a reliability perspective when it first came out, but...being in production for such a long time can go a good ways toward fixing those things.