In the 1980s, the U.S. Army found itself grappling with a startling problem: under the stress of combat, soldiers armed with ...

Canadian involvement with the Colt M16 series of rifles began as a result of that country’s Small Arms Replacement Program (SARP), which sought to supplant the FN-FAL-based C1A1 rifles chambered in ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Another special forces unit that used the CAR-15 in action were U.S. Navy SEAL teams. SEALs originally carried the Colt 607 but transitioned to the XM177E2 when ...

Key point: The M16 remains loved and hated by many to this day. In Part One of this series, we discussed how the U.S. Army came to dump the M14 battle rifle for the M16 assault rifle. The M16 promised ...