Especially this one:
Title: Report of the M16 Rifle Review Panel. Volume 1. History of the M16 Weapon System.
http://stinet.dtic.mil/stinet/jsp/do...28s%29&MC=&PE=
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Especially this one:
Title: Report of the M16 Rifle Review Panel. Volume 1. History of the M16 Weapon System.
http://stinet.dtic.mil/stinet/jsp/do...28s%29&MC=&PE=
As there's some interest in GM and the rifle of passion here, I post a quote from 1970 in Time magazine regarding issues facing the automaker:
"In front of General Motors' fortress-like headquarters building in Detroit last week, antiwar picketers waved banners reading G.M. GETS RICH, G.I.s DIE. Why did they pick on G.M.? Last year it received only 3% of its $24.45 billion revenues from defense contracts, largely for M16 rifles. But, as the prime symbol of corporate success in modern America, G.M. is a conspicuous target. This year it is under rising pressure not only from citizens objecting to the Viet Nam War and pollution of the environment, but also from the Government and competing automakers."
Pretty much an anecdotal blurb, but maybe it will help.
I had a H&R A1 overstamped and converted into a a2 at Basic in 2003.
A co-workers issue M16 (LE) is a GM. Mines just a regular Colt. I will snap a pic.
I had a GM Hydramatic Div. M16A1 in basic training back in 1986. I have seen some here in country as well.
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I have seen both M16's and M2 .50cals both made by GM. The 50's were date stamped in the late 60's, 68 and 69 if i remember correctly. Probably not much GM hasn't made over the years.
Last edited by ErikL; 12-11-08 at 12:43.
Hrmmm, gun sales up 50% since the election...
American car sales in the dumpster...
Isn't perspective wonderful.
I never even knew GM dabbled in bullet propulsiuon devices. Of course that tells ya how much I know. Im still laughing about seeing "GM" stamped on an old fridge in my grandpas barn....![]()
I saw a few GM M16 lowers when I was in basic training. I had never known before that either.
so GM just step in to help colt with overwhelming request on M16A1?
GM doesn't produce M16A2, right?
I saw a lower markin in "AR-15"
there is a lower markin GM and M16A2
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