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Colt Firearms is one of the oldest firearms companies in the United States, and it has produced a vast array of iconic guns over the years. Many are used in their current iterations in the U.S ...

Both SEALs and U.S. Army Special Forces continued to use the XM177 well into the 1970s, working around the lack of new production by cannibalizing some rifles to provide spare parts for others.

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The blood lands on my left shoe as the needle hits its mark. The adrenaline travels slowly to the heart, sucked onward through the chest’s recoil. 1-2-3-4-5. 1-2-3-4-5. 1-2-3-4-5. The compressions ...

We carried M16A1 rifles, with XM177 (CAR-15) carbines, silenced OSS vintage .22 caliber pistols, and suppressed MAC-10 sub-machine guns for special missions. Our prime movers were the UH-1 “Huey ...

Officially dubbed the XM177, the CAR-15 was a submachine gun version of the M16 and grandfather of today’s M4 carbines. Available in two barrel lengths—a 10" on the E1 version and an 11.5" on ...

Colt completed the deliveries within six months. The first rifles sent to the military were unmodified Colt 607s, designated XM177 in Air Force service and XM177E1 in Army service. Right away ...

Most of my living history impressions are centred on MACV-SOG, MIKE Forces and the SEALs, so the full-length M16 has never really been in my preferred armoury as most of those units carried the XM177 ...

Officially dubbed the XM177, the CAR-15 was a submachine gun version of the M16 and grandfather of today’s M4 carbines. Available in two barrel lengths—a 10" on the E1 version and an 11.5" on ...