ITT: Guns that make you E R E C T
Why didn't they use this in Vietnam instead of the M16A1? I know with early designs in the mid to late 50s they had trouble with them but by the time the search for a new rifle came about in the mid 60s I am going to assume it was closer to being perfected.
TFW you have one.
>>31346519
will a regular lower fit on that
>>31346519
Nice
>>31346558
It won't take a Armalight lower but some Anons suggested it may work with the older DPMS rifles. Eventually I want to have a proper copy of the original lower made.
>>31346476
Armalite was late getting the rifle to the evaluation competition, and then the barrel blowed up, just like Stoner told the project manager it would.
>>31346476
Because the M16A1 is capable of accurate automatic fire, and this glorified M14 isn't.
>>31346476
military higher ups had a raging boner for the M14 until they found out it fucking sucks as a standard infantry rifle. The original AR-10 actually preformed fantastically but had a barrel blow out after some insane torture testing, giving the aforementioned armchair generals an excuse to ditch it.
>>31346613
>implying conscripts didn't just hipfire magdump into the brush with the M16 wasting bullets.
>>31346604
Or maybe it was the president of Armalite was the one that insisted they send it with the composite barrel... I'm not going to look it up