Well, thanks to it's propensity to jam, (a rifle pre-equipped with an
anti-jam plunger, as reliable as a woman pre-equipped with antibiotics,) difficulty to take down, inaccuracy... No wonder it was our best friend in the Vietnam war!
Ahh, yes. The AR-15 variants: The perfect rifle for people who like to sit... And clean... And buy accessories... And carefully assemble... And look at the computer... And buy more Hoppe's... And post things on the internet...
Not these guys:
And not me.
Congratulations anyway, Armalite.
Bro. I’ve shot many thousands of rounds (in a single instance) from the M16-A2. It did not jam. Not once. The bitch will hot-fire, full auto after several mags. The problems with the A1s were from crappy, high-ash ammo from low-bid contracts to M14 powder specs used for M556 ball ammo contracts contrary to the manufacturer’s specs. This was sorted out in the 70s. But yes, not before a lot of soldiers died from the mix-up during Nam. It was not Armalite’s fault. It was the fault of hard-tarded Army contract officers not updating the ammunition contracts to M-16 spec requirements.
M16-A1s didn’t jam much during the ‘90s, at least not in my unit. I read that many modifications had been done to them before then, though.