The M16 Assault Rifle
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The series of M16 styles of rifle all feature gas-operated bolts, semi-automatic
fire, and chrome chambers.
10, 20, or 30 round magazines are accepted by the feed port. Ammunition is .223 mm
NATO.
If the M16 rifle is too small a caliber in your opinion, you can have your head blown off
to test DOD standards.
The M16 Assault Rifle
The M16 assault rifle is excellent for defensive shooting in close quarter combat.
The user can choose an area target or specific target and deliver rounds to that object
until its inert.
If contacted, fire from the hip, then go to the shoulder, shoot rapidly, targeting the
nearest threat first.
In Army Basic Training, recruits are taught M16
rifle tactics starting from the basics to the most advanced.
The US Army is an excellent place to learn how to shoot, especially if you have never
fired an M16 rifle
before; no bad habits the Drill Sergeants like to point out..
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What makes the history of the M16 assault rifle very interesting from other military grade weapons is that commercial sales of the product began on a significant scale even before the large military contract sales of the rifle by the United States Army which made the M 16 weapon then recognizable throughout the world. The M 6 assault rifle would make its war debut when it replaced the M 14 rifle during the Vietnam war from the mid 1960’s until all the older model M 14 rifles were phased out of service, except as sniper rifles.
A huge inventor and innovator of semiautomatic firearms after
world war two in the United States was an engineer by the name of Eugene Stoner. He could be considered the rival of Soviet
firearms engineer Kalashnikov to the West for his own semiautomatic infantry rifle
designs.
Stoner originally designed the Armalite assault rifle, which at a
glance even by someone who is not a gun expert, can still easily see the resemblance of
the M16 assault rifle to his earlier firearms design work at the Armalite gun-smithing
factories.
So earlier versions or rather, simply Stoner's visions of the M16
design of rifle had designated names like the AR10 and the Armalite AR15, which were
commercially for sale in the open arms market. However,
it was not only private citizens that were purchasing Stoner's design of rifle. Police
organizations, and foreign governments were also interested in these predecessors to the
M16 assault rifle.
For example, the British forces had ordered over 10,000 of Stoners m16 rifles for its troops, police organizations throughout the United States, particularly special weapons and tactics squads were also buying M-16 rifles from the Coltfirearms company. After sufficient demand has established for their rifles, the Colt Firearms Company executives submitted it to the Department of Defense in the 1961 competition for the contract to replace M 14 rifle.
Stoners M-16 assault rifle, under manufacturing by the Colt Firearms company won the defense contract. Even by that time, private sales were continuing, even to military organizations within the United States itself. Budget appropriations for the Air Force to use at its discretion, had allowed them to make a significant purchase of M-16 rifles before announcement that the Stoner design had won the contract. But the loyalty paid off, and United States Air Force received some of the first large quantities of shipments of M-16 rifles from the Colt Firearms Company factory works in Connecticut, USA.
However, the largest recipient from the Department of Defense's choice was the US Army. Their troops, which make up the bulk of America's ground forces, were issued M-16 assault rifles by the millions. This first version of the M-16, now an official Department of Defense designated weapon, was simply referred to as the M-16 assault rifle. Note: more designates are going to be added to the rifle's name, and as improvements in design, drove Department of Defense nomenclature to change a rifles model number.
With models of the rifle reaching combat by 1962 and in widespread use throughout Southeast Asia by US ground forces within the next few years, the rigors of fighting in a jungle environment brought out design flaws that the manufacturers could not have foreseen.
And though the weapon had held up supremely for base police at Air Force installations, and had served reliably with police special weapons and tactics squads, troops, who found themselves using the new Coltrifle in inhospitable conditions brought up a number of field improvements to their chain of command. One factor that was working against the M-16 when it was first released to combat troops, was that somehow the gas exchange tube was not simply for ejecting spent cartridge casings, but was the infantry's fantasy that it was a self-cleaning weapon. The pervasiveness of this belief among some of the less bright soldiers it seems, led to a now famous comic book featuring a well breasted southern belle that was published by the Pentagon and distributed to troops on how to operate, disassembling the mechanical components, and clean the rifle properly.
With these improvements, the M-16 became the M-16 A1, with the addition of a bold closure to help assist in ejecting jammed cartridges. This device in addition to the forward assist, can unjam a stuck bolt-assembly. These improvements help soldiers realize the lethality and performance capability of the M-16 assault rifle.
Another lesson learned but
after the Vietnam War, was that the M-16 A1, could be more effective if it was altered to
not offer the user, fully automatic weapons fire. So
with this next renovation, the rifle was redesignated by the Department of Defense to the
M-16 A2 assault rifle, and this version of Stoners design could have its fire selector
switch in three positions. Those would be
safe, which meant the rifle pendant's trigger lock. The
second position was semiautomatic, where each squeeze the trigger will fire a one
projectile from the magazine. The third
choice was changed from fully automatic, to burst. When
the soldier said the rifles switch to burst, if he is alive and could aim the rifle and
pull the trigger, one squeeze would release three rounds at the same instance, relative to
the time of the human targets perception when they strike it.
Changing the soldier from
firing fully automatic to three round burst. Not
only improve the accuracy of the shots, but also conserve ammo, and as less bullets were
fired uselessly in the air by uncontrollable recoil.
It should be left up to the job of belt fed machine gunners to take care of hosing
down enemy targets with fully automatic fire. Rifle
men are exactly that. They carry rifles and
they hunt down other enemy men carrying rifles, and try to kill them first.
The M-16 A2 assault rifle
proved to be an effective weapon in this task. While
machine gunners can take care of high volume, or high saturation fire on a target, the
burst setting conserved ammunition and allowed the rifleman to slow down, and take them
more deliberate shots that the US Army had always wanted them to do.
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