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Huey » 27 Jun 2022, 12:57 pm » wrote: ↑
27 Jun 2022, 12:57 pm
Now you are flat out lying. Which you always do in defeat. I answered your questions all morning. You still can't tell me the differences in the lowers nor can you explain if they are the same rifle, designed for the battlefield, they would have two different lowers.

Because they are different. One was designed for civilians, the other designed under the army definition of an assault rifle for the battlefield.

The difference between the two is one has a selector that goes from safe/semi/auto. The other has safe/fire. One is branded COLT M16. The other COLT AR 15. One is branded .223 for caliber. The other 5.56. One has Model SP1.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was almost a decade into the Vietnam War and had to face three facts:

The M14 could not compete with the enemy’s AK-47.
The AR-15 consistently outperformed both the M14 and the AK-47 in testing.
M14 production simply couldn’t meet the demands of the U.S. Military.

McNamara approved the rifle and it was adopted as the M16 (or as the M16A1 or XM16E1 for the variant with forward assist).

The semi-automatic version of the Colt AR-15 for civilian and police use hit store shelves in 1964.

https://www.pewpewtactical.com/ar15-vs-m4-difference/