The current '16 has a three-round burst setting, which may as well be full
auto. It's also not uncommon for the pawl that limits the number of shots
to three to 'break', or get bent out of the way, allowing full auto fire.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Pikul [mailto:rwpikul_at_idirect.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:51 PM
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Cc: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [SkunkworksAMA] rifle ammo [offtopic]
At 01:00 PM 6/26/02 -0400, Andrew Greene wrote:
>Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but the primary reason that they shoot
>so little ammo, is the budget for ammo has shrunk significantly. Compare
>to the 60's, when riflemen fired 600 rounds on average a year. As for
>conserving ammo and being deadly accurate, no. They're taught to be
>barely accurate shots, and to rely on firing their guns full-auto.
That would be a cute trick, the current version of the M16 used by
the US military cannot fire full auto.
Only the Marines train to use the M16 in full auto mode, and they
do not use it.
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Phoenix
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Received on Thu Jun 27 2002 - 05:27:56 CDT