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?
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No, it is not.
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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.
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LW Schneider started making lowers
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VM HY TECK made lowers with their id on them
Last edited by curious1; 09-01-13 at 20:45.
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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.
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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
Last edited by Tzed250; 09-02-13 at 18:06.
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If you spend much time around the guys who really, really know their craft, and who truly live this stuff, you tend to find that they are very soft-spoken and modest -- almost to the extreme. To my mind, that is a model worthy of emulation
AC
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