Summary and Key Points: The M16 rifle, designed by Eugene Stoner and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1960s, has remained a staple due to its reliability, modularity, and effectiveness.

The M16 rifle is one of the most iconic weapons of the post-World War II era. American fighting men have carried the M16 in one form or another into combat for more than fifty years, from Vietnam ...

The standard U.S. infantry rifle in Vietnam is the M16. There have been stories of men getting killed because their M16s jammed in battle. My ad­vice is to ignore these tales. I have carried at ...

Dallas County commissioners have authorized a sheriff's department request for M14s, M16s and an armored personnel carrier ...

It would become the standard-issue rifle—renamed the M16, for the prosaic “Model 16”—just in time for the rise of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. A U.S. Marine holds his M16 rifle alert after ...

When the Army ordered its now standard M4 carbine in 1993 from firearms maker Colt, it saw the rifle as a lighter, more agile alternative to the Vietnam era M16 with similar punch at short range.

Many 19th-century rifle makers built carbines in different cartridges than the full-sized rifles the military issued to the infantry. Today, the U.S. military classifies the M16 (a full-auto AR15 ...

A REMNANT of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed and an M16 rifle was recovered during a brief encounter with government ...

From Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, to Escape from Tarkov, to Payday 2, and more, we got Alex Pitts, the Combined Military Services Museum's gun expert to react to the M16 Rifle. From ...

ST JAMES, Jamaica – A M16 rifle was seized by members of the St James police’s operational support team and the military, following a targeted raid at Green Tank, Rose Heights in the parish on ...