[stand watie]

if the US "had brain one", we'd go back to the M14!

FYI, that is still an issue weapon for the USN & USMC!

free dixie,sw

[Long Cut]

I'd settle for them simply releasing those M14s in storage (which HAS to be several hundred thousand, at least) to the civilian surplus market, appropriately mopdified to prevent full autofire.

I see absolutely ZERO chance of us moving back to it as a general issue weapon. Don't forget, it was basically FORCED on us, anyway. The cartridge was only a short .30-06 in an era when we should have been moving to a .280 or smaller.