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Originally Posted by Ted Ferguson
The M-16 is a fragile piece of shit built so that when women are drafted as cannon fodder they can at least carry the thing in battle until they fall over from heat exhaustion...
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Dead wrong. The M16 was issued decades ago; and for men serving in combat, not women. WACs were still pink collar stenos and office-workers at the time. Anticipation of twenty-first century G.I. Janes was the last thing on the minds of the military and Colt designers.