On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:30:14 -0600, the infamous "David R.Birch"
scrawled the following:

Wes wrote:


"Only accurate rifles are interesting."- Col. Townsend Whelen


This thinking led us to fight two World Wars with target rifles
instead of battle rifles and to use squads of riflemen supported by
machine guns instead of the more useful unit of machine guns supported
by riflemen.

Lerps in 'Nam picked up muddy, always-usable AKs and tossed their
early, quick-jamming M-16s. The smart ones also quit smoking and ate
the same fishhead & rice diet the Vietnamese did so their smells were
the same, internally and externally. The M-16 was eventually
debugged, but lots of our guys died from the early models. That was
inexcusable.

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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
--Thomas Paine