[skimbell]

"...The M249 has a higher rate of fire than the M4A1 and is intentionally less accurate to provide greater fire dispersion on the battlefield. The M249 suffers from reliability issues..."

Why doesn't this surprise me?

...and that's he way we roll in the U.S.A. today...

[Spktyr]

The M249 was adopted in 1984. It’s not ‘today’s’ USA.

The fire dispersion thing is actually common among actual machine guns. The reliability issues, not so much.