-> -> Ask any Vietnam veteran about the early M-16's, and you'll get an 
-> -> earful.   

->  WC> Yeah they'd jam up in the damp and dust in Vietnam. The inside of 
->  WC> the stock being stamped "Made by Mattel" likely didn't help 
->  WC> either. not sure if this last isn't urban legend.

-> it is not urban legend... when in the USAF in the early 80's, i trained and
-> shot M16s... as i recall, it wasn't stamped on the inside, either... it was
-> stamped on the stock, though...

Heh.
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