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Pl give us a break here----dunt compare M16 with other old or new rifles.
I just want to know what improvements,if any, have been made to M16 in the past says,20 years.
Look at the computer,the TV and handphone u are using every day.All have been improved for few generations in the past 20 years.I am generous here.If u think 20 not enough,just share.There is no ban if u tell me improvement 40 years ago.
Pl take note what the co inventor of M 16 replied when he was asked
''''And what kind of advance was there in our combat rifle?''
JIM SULLIVAN (answered): They're right exactly where they were when we gave them the M-16 in 1960. They haven't advanced an inch.....''
Before u share with us,pl read some info to refresh your memory:
some latest news:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-04-20-gunwars_N.htm?csp=34
history help u recap:
http://www.sfahq.com/Armament/Rifles/M_16_Caliber_5_56mm/
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This thread has been inspired by the grave comments of JIM SULLIVAN, M-16 Co-Designer:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec07/rifles_09-24.html
PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent: The M-16 semiautomatic rifle. With its shorter version, the M-4, it's the gun of our troops in combat. The hat's for the sun, by the way; the earmuffs for the noise. Jim Sullivan helped design this rifle during the Eisenhower administration.
JIM SULLIVAN, M-16 Co-Designer: Fifty years ago.
PAUL SOLMAN: Fifty years ago?
JIM SULLIVAN: Well, we started on it 50 years ago this month.
PAUL SOLMAN: That's 1957, the year the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. In the half-century since, computers shrank from houses to handhelds; polio was cured; man made it to the moon and Mars. And what kind of advance was there in our combat rifle?
JIM SULLIVAN: They're right exactly where they were when we gave them the M-16 in 1960. They haven't advanced an inch.....
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I think a clone is some kind of replica of an original thing.
So if lionoisy were an M16 in 1960 , he wud be an M16A4 today . So I say that's an improvement - you think ?
If he were a clone, he would still be an M16 right ? So , he is not a clone right ?
Now ,if he were still a clone ............someone please finish the story.......
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