The AK-47 and M16 are two of the most iconic and widely used assault rifles in history, symbolizing distinct philosophies in ...

The encouraging feedback from these units, fighting enemies armed with the AK-47 assault rifle at close range, led the Army to a “one-time” purchase of 104,000 rifles, renamed the M16 and ...

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. -Despite early controversies and ...

Editor’s note: this post first appeared in April 2018. Decades before the U.S. military transitioned away from the M16 assault rifle in favor of the lightweight M4 carbine, the Army eyed an ...

In Part One of this series, we discussed how the U.S. Army came to dump the M14 battle rifle for the M16 assault rifle. The M16 promised light weight and greater lethality, ...

A couple got the surprise of a lifetime when a box of M16 assault rifles was shipped to their house. The military grade weapons were inside one of the 100 empty gun storage cases they had ordered ...

This is sup­posed to zero-in the M16 rifle for 250 meters. ... AK-47 cal. 7.62 mm assault rifles, which the author found cumbersome and not accurate beyond 450 meters. ...

Army researchers are testing half a dozen ammunition variants for a new prototype assault rifle that fires a larger round in order to introduce a possible M16/M4 replacement by 2020, according to ...

The M16’s irregular burst fire might put it at a slight disadvantage when matched up against full-auto weapons at close range, but that in no way diminishes this Assault Rifle’s overall ...

The M16, a military rifle used during the Vietnam War, was adapted from the AR-15. But the AR-15 differs in that it was marketed as a semi-automatic rifle, whereas the M16 can also be a fully ...

A missing M16 assault rifle that was unaccounted for during a recent inventory at the Melbourne Police Department has been found. Skip to content. NOWCAST WESH 2 News at 11 PM.