U.S. Army looking for a new rifle...

[friendly_iconoclast]

37. You might maybe want to lay off on the 'argument from authority' you've been using...

...as getting details wrong (as you did upthread) has been a mark of more than one poster of,
shall we say 'questionable' military qualifications- though rarely as obviously as the one I
linked to above.

Oddly enough, they *also* felt the AR-15 shouldn't be in civilian hands.
The disinterested reader is invited to make of that what they will...

I'd also remind you that a 13B would also have been required to
qualify once a year on the issue rifle of the time- which would have been the M16.
Not to mention other personal weapons suitable for self-defense of second line-troops
(arty, transport, Signal Corps, etc). Those would have been M1 (or M2) carbines, M1911 pistol,
M3 greasegun, and/or combat shotguns. Therefore, your military experience lends no more
or less imprimatur to your arguments than gej's does to his.

Also, your invocation of Newtown means nothing- It was at an elementary school, FFSM's sake-
Lanza could have gotten the same results with a double-barrelled shotgun