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.
It is now the standard issue firearm for most units in the U.S. military ... with the M16A2 Rifle and replaces all M3 .45 caliber submachine guns, and selected M9 pistols and M16 rifles.
Whether commercially available semi-automatic rifles now banned in Illinois are common or too similar to military grade firearms was the focus of Day 2 of the bench trial of Illinois’ gun and magazine ...
The contraband, which included nine Kalashnikovs, 41 pistols, two AK-47 rifles, six U.S.-made M16 machine guns, five grenades, 15 various types of mines, and a quantity of war equipment, such as ...