Episode 67 - The M-16 Rifle: A Dumb History

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

English - September 09, 2019 13:52 - 1 hour - 51.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
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On this episode we examine the birth of the M-16 Rifle and its deployment to the Vietnam War. How did the Pentagon take a rifle that passed every test with flying colors and turn it into a piece of shit that undoubtably killed hundreds of American soldiers?

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Sources for this episode:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m16-rifle-went-war-against-north-korea%E2%80%94and-succeeded-vietnam-not-so-much-32252
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure
https://fenixammo.com/pages/history-of-the-223-remington-cartridge