Black Rifles Are Popular For Good Reason
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 2 months ago
Combined with the current military M855, or even better the Designated Marksman “Match” ammunition, the M-16 platform can take us well into the new century. The military has decided just that by declaring that there is no reason to adopt any of the new weapon systems anytime soon. There are special units deploying ACRs (advanced combat rifles) but their chance at widespread use anytime soon appears to be zero.
Personally, I have tried most of this new generation of rifles and they are just bigger, bulkier and more complicated. Some are just downright ugly! I would take an M-16 style rifle over any of them.
Surprising to many, the “AR” is about 65 years old, older than almost everyone reading this, and it is still going strong. It is our longest-serving service rifle of all time, by a large margin, and every year it just increases that lead.
Almost every other country in the entire world has adopted the cartridge of the M-16, if not the entire M-16 itself, and those that haven’t basically copied it.
For a rifle that so many people supposedly hate, it has completely dominated the world. I am happy to be a fan and user of the “Black Rifle.”
I’m even prouder to be a citizen of the country that designed, adopted and fielded it with such success.
While I’m not a fan of the green tip ammunition, this is a fairly well-informed article and has good history as well.
On September 13, 2021 at 9:06 am, George 1 said:
Interesting that the IDF is starting to replace their Tavor rifles with M-4s. They allude to commonality reasons for the move. There are however leaks from many firearms industry people that the Tavor might not be as reliable as the IDF had thought.
Of course it could be that the IDF knows that Uncle Sugar will give them as many M-4s as they want. Since we supplied the Taliban why not?
On September 15, 2021 at 4:18 am, JB said:
At 67 and still kickin, my safe has more AR-15’s than any other pattern long arm. My first AR-15 was a new Colt SP-1 bought in 1977 when I was 23. After retirement I built a second in 2010, and purchased 2 more, the most recent being a pistol style two months ago. All are 5.56/.223 although I’m eying a .308 version as I write this. I have enough to arm the wife and kids, with pistol being a truck gun. Like hammers, one is never enough. Today they spend more time in the dark safe until ammo prices come down. Eugene Stoner deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor for his invention.
On September 15, 2021 at 7:02 am, Dan in Ohio said:
I’m a fan of the AR-15 platform.
I used a M16-A1 in the Army, Infantry. Was not sent to war, but fired a lot of live ammo and even more blanks. Never had a jam.
I have since taken up Service Rifle competition.
I don’t see any AK’s or AKM’s at Camp Perry, Ohio. ;)
On October 3, 2021 at 4:48 am, DelMarVaDave said:
Why not Green Tip ammo?
Inquiring minds want to know…