/4/ Bring back M-14s, now, lots of them! The USMC uses them in their accurized scoped "designated marksman" version. He is not a sniper, but much more than another rifleman! We have 100s of 1,000s of them in warehouses, the ammo is also in the system, they work great in the desert, they should be in every infantry squad in the desert and mountain wars. No new rifle, funding, etc. Just issue the orders and distribute them. We have less than 50,000 remaining in other than *Condition H* scrap in the national inventory, last time I checked. We've been passing them out to everyone from the Israelis, Colombians and Haitian customs guards, and the Marines had to cherrypick through Navy weapons to come up with enough rebuildable examples- 2000, I believe- for their recent DMR rifle program.
Whoops! Thanks for the current M-14 info.