Not trying to start a pissing contest, just genuinely curious, but why have people decided that snopes is an authority on anything? Isn't it like wiki, where anyone can post anything?
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Not trying to start a pissing contest, just genuinely curious, but why have people decided that snopes is an authority on anything? Isn't it like wiki, where anyone can post anything?
No, it is not.
About snopes.com
The whole "Mattel M-16" myth started with some folks who hated having polymer as a component on their rifles.
Mattel never manufactured any M-16s. Period.
Anybody who says otherwise is wrong.
SOCOM Manufacturing used to make the Diamond series billet lowers.
Aboutimemachining makes lowers
LW Schneider started making lowers
American Firearms Manufacturing Co makes lowers
Continental Machine Tool made lowers with their id on them.
JV Precision Machine made some of the LBR lowers
VM HY TECK made lowers with their id on them
Gilboa - Israeli made AR
http://www.gilboa-rifle.com
http://ptisidiastima.files.wordpress...gilboa-gen.jpg
Well, I have no proof, I just have my eyewitness account. I remember thinking the rifle was kind of junky, as I was a 14 year old used to shooting a Springfield Armory M1A and an Anschütz 1413. The reason it sticks in my mind is that I had heard the weapon referred to as a "Mattel Toy", but when I saw the molded mark in the stock I realized where the name had come from.
P.S.
I am not saying Mattel made the rifle, I'm saying that they were a subcontractor that made plastic parts on the rifle. For sure it was a Colt.
I have no idea how reliable this is:
http://www.snopes.com/military/m16.asp