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How Reliable Are the US M-16 and M-4 Rifles and Their Ammunition?
2 November 2009
New York Times / At War: Notes From the Front Lines, Blog
Few issues are more personal to soldiers than the question of whether they can trust their rifles. And few rifles in history have generated more controversy over their reliability than the American M-16 assault rifle and its carbine version, the M-4.
In recent weeks, a fresh round of complaints about weapon malfunctions in Afghanistan, mentioned in an Army historian's report that documented small-arms jamming during the fierce battle in Wanat last year, has rekindled... (GunPolicy.org)
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