5 Facts About the AR-15 You Might Not Know
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In this video, I discuss some facts and myths about the AR-15. These are not all of them by any means, but I thought some of them might be fun to discuss. How many of these did you know? Let me know in the comments section below.
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Ok Eric, did you know the carrier was designed as bore guide for cleaning? just remove bolt and firing pin then reinsert the carrier and run the cleaning rod thru the firing pin hole! Eugene Stoner was a genius indeed!
Why would you want or need to do that.
@@robertsears8323the answer is in the man's 1st sentence
wait wtf really?
@@thepyrodude The FACT is it is a AR so it don't need cleaned. I can't count how many thousand rounds through my AR-10 in the last 10 years and I will never clean it.
The most it gets is some gun lube added to it ever few cases of ammo.
@@robertsears46 alrighty then👍
Here’s a fact that most of your viewers probably know, but a lot of others don’t including politicians and judges. The AR15 is protected by the Constitution.
In fact ALL ARMS are. NBC IS excluded because they are both dangerous AND UNUSUAL. So that argument is stupid.
Looks like your illegitimate government also is
So are nukes
The Constitution is also protected by Ar-15s.
Just as long as you are part of a well regulated militia. Which I'm guessing you ain't.
Another use for a bullet tip is to open up the trigger guard to allow for heavy gloves in the winter.
Fact, the army ordnance corps actively sabotaged the development of the AR and that's why it had such a rough start in vietnam. They did this because it came from an outside private company and thus threatened their jobs. A congressional investigation later called the ordnance corps criminally negligent.
Wasn’t one of the big issues related to the powder the government contracted? Something about it not being the powder that was called for proper operation? There were several rounds of negligence and our fighting people died because of it.
I've heard that McNamara stopped the chroming of the chamber & barrel as too expensive. This caused corrosion in the jungle and was later corrected. The "Toy gun" came from Mattel, but also cause it was a small rifle that shot cute little "Toy" bullets?!?! GI's didn't like the "Toy" gun and elected for the new M14 as the action was already tried and true from the Garand and M1 Carbine. They also didn't like that cute little bullet and opted for the 30-06 or the 06 looking .308!!!
Spent time at Fort Ord in 72 - 75 ROTC!
Talked with lots of training warriors!!!
@davemo04 yes the powder used was "ball powder" used in the older bolt action rifles. This was not the kind of powder specified for this rifle. Because the war in Nam needed so many millions of rounds, the correct ammo had run out and they switched the powder which caused the first issues and that was fouling. Since the rifles were sold as "self cleaning" the soldiers were not issued cleaning kits until after. The humid tropical environment exacerbated the problem even more. Chrome lining was eventually added to stop the corrosion issue and the men were issued cleaning kits and instructions.
@@jpcolbert357yea I really believe that the Army Ordinance tried their best to mess up the Armalite image and push their agenda with the M14. The good ole boy "larger is better" in bullet size. It's true to a point but now we see that in hind sight. I wouldn't buy an AR until just 8 years ago knowing our guys died in that jungle with their rifles jammed. I swore to never own one after hearing friends who fought over there had an inferior weapon issued by the gov. Thanks to learning more, I love the platform and swear by it not at it. Thanks for your service by the way. I was too young to go but knew guys who did serve.
How many people were prosecuted for that. Men died because of thier foolish agenda.
I qualified with an M16A1 last century. TBH, I knew most of these, but this was still a good video. Many years ago I saw a special on TV about the change in gunpowder that caused the problems with it initially in Nam.
i heard soldiers werent told to clean them as often as they needed to be cleaned, as well
You forgot to mention that adding an adjustable stock turns the gun into a fully semi automatic 50 caliber clip sniper machine gun.
Shoots straighter than the road to hell and blows a hole twice as broad.
Something about deer and Kevlar vests…. Chocolate chocolate chip… MAGA extremists
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Scary - huh ? O dear .
Worth mentioning, John Browning's .30 cal Model of 1917 water cooled machine gun was designed so that it could be disassembled with a 30-06 cartridge as well. This feature remained part of all successive models through the 1919A6. Good on Stoner for recognizing the same convenient simplicity.
Similar with a *TRUE* 1911 (not so much the modern copies) - The gun itself IS the "toolkit" - I've forgotten most of the details, but you pull one piece off, and it's the tool to take the next piece off, and each time you come to a point where you're thinking "I need a tool to get this part off", one of the parts you've already removed (usually, but not always, the last part you removed before hitting the "I need a tool" part) is the tool you need to remove the part you're "stuck" on. Even the mainspring is a tool for messing with another part of the weapon. No coincidence that Browning was the brains behind that one, too...
The best gun maker of all time imo
Internal piston vs external piston. It's better to extract a malfunction than to force a defective round back into the chamber.
Stoner referred to it as a _stationary piston,_ which makes sense as no piston can function external a cylinder
If a round doesn't chamber ,extract it and try again.Why force it into the chamber?
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The Army wanted it. Why? Because previous rifles had a way of forcing the bolt into battery. Never ever had to use the forward assist.
Cmmg also has really great customer service. I bought a 22lr conversion kit 5-6 years ago. Part of the bolt broke not long ago after thousands of rounds. I reached out trying to buy a replacement part. They replied back asking for a picture of the piece that broke and my mailing address. Didn’t ask another question a few days later the part was in my mailbox. They definitely stand by their products
They sure do, awesome products awesome service imo
I was first handed a M16A1 in the mid 70s. I was told be very careful with it as it cost your government $65. The very first ones had a 1/14 twist barrel. Good video I knew all 5. The reason for going to the birdcage flash hider over the 3 pronged was troops were using it to break metal bands on shipping pallets. Yes the 3pronged got folage in them but troops could learn to be careful. Good video.
If only Connecticut didn’t ban it. SCOTUS needs to do the right thing, and declare gun bans unconstitutional. I didn’t know the cartridge could be used as a tool. Thanks, Eric.
Legal work around is to buy a stripped lower and build it out. As long as it's a fixed 10rd mag for .223/5.56/ect or detachable 10rd .22, you are okay. The .22 lr conversion kit in a .223/5.56 is kind of grey area though. The hardest part is finding a store that sells lowers. Hit me up if you have some questions, I'll do my best to answer.
The courts will never restore constitutional government to the US. We need police to stop colluding with the tyrants by enforcing unconstitutional laws, and we need juries to stop convicting people of violating them.
That would also make the NFA unconstitutional which it is
I had always heard Stoner did not like the idea of having a forward assist, and that it was added only by requirement of US military...
Sometimes in the melt down videos, the forward assist has caused problems if broken.
He didn't like it nor want it. It's not needed.
Kyle Rittenhouse used his foward assist. Just saying.
@@brandonknopff1260 very specific situation, the rifle bumped the ground with the butstock, which caused to open up the bolt slightly and the action spring seemed not to have enough force to push the bolt home.
Some say, with a propper AR-15 that wouldn't have happen.
But, yes, anything thta can happen, will eventualle happen atleast once.
In exactly that situation, the FWD Assist is actually helpfull but that is next to beeing the only situation.
@Mr79dream Saved his life though.
My father was in Vietnam in 66-67. He trained with the m14. He told me when they got to Vietnam they we're issued the m16 and he hated it because it was always jamming. He said alot of guys would tape cleaning rods to the forearm so they could un jam it thru the bore. He always told me how much he liked the m14. I bought a m1a clone of the m14 and handed it to him, he was 75 at the time. After a few minutes he told me to get that heavy son of bitch of him.😂😂
I think a lot of the issues with the early M16 was the magazines did not have anti-tilt followers which is awful, and also the cleaning schedule I don't think was correctly understood. I actually heard the gun was initially pitched as "self cleaning" because of the DI system gas blast that went back into the chamber that - theoretically - should clear out any muck.
@@Sophistry0001 yep and the powder used at the time was terrible. Fouled up real fast
I was in the 101st airborne with 2/327th infantry regiment in year 2000. I didn't like the M4 rifle due to it jamming a lot. The problem was the magazines giving me double feeds most of the time. One time I had a round fly backwards and get stuck between the upper side of the bolt and the frame. It took a pair of pliers to get rip it out of there. I trust a semi-auto 12 gauge shotgun more than a M4. Of course all the AR15 fans will have a million excuses for my experience to downplay it so they can lift up the AR15 as the god of guns. I wouldn't trust an M4 with my life no matter what enhancements its been given over the last 20 years. That forward assist is a stupid thing to be needed on a gun too.
@@JJsGA It makes one wonder how many troops died because they had a jam in their rifle at the wrong time.
The biggest problem was the lack of chromo bore. The jungle environment caused significant corrosion, and pitting in the bore will cause stuck casings on every shot regardless of how clean the gun is. This problem is true for every gun, not just the AR. The US knew this problem existed since the pacific theater in ww2, but the ordnance corps purposely did not chromo line the M16s because they want it to fail. The jamming was by design and people died because of it.
Eric, good video. U.S. Army 1984 thru 1991. Had several M16A1's issued to me at various duty stations. Shot 40 out of 40 most of the time. Carried it through Desert Shield/Storm. I never had an issue. As a range NCO, I did see alot of issues. Some were the weapons fault and some the soldiers. Most of the time our armors would come to the range with us and resolve most of the weapons issues. Great weapons platform!
In boot camp, we were told that the notch on the side of the bolt carrier could be used a bolt forward assist. If needed, using your thumb, you could push the bolt carrier forward and the bolt into battery.
I trained on the M-16 while in USAF basic training in 1967. The rifles we used had a forward assist and as I remember, did not say Mattel on the furniture. With my warped sense of humor, I would have certainly picked up on that.
Yeah as great as Eric is, I'm pretty unsure he's wrong on the Mattel thing...
@@todddelevan9488 I think they made A1 handguards and the logo was on the inside - everything other than that is spoof
I was right behind you. We trained with the forward assist. Don't you just miss those old wooden barracks.
@@User5_ Zero examples, zero evidence, zero sources
@@User5_ according to several sources.
There is known source, that Mattel was ever a sub contractor for any M16 part, however the Mattel Marauder was apparently used by the Militarry as training or exersise stand in
Haha, Eric with his polite southern way of saying RTFM.. 😀👍🏻
Knew all 5. The cartridge is also used to open the trigger guard for a gloved finger.
Great video, Great content. My grandfather was an MP for McArthur and was issued a Singer 1911. He also wound up with an M1928A1 Thompson, don't know how he got that! Thank you. God Bless and stay safe.
1-knew,2-knew,3-knew, 4-knew, knew, knew, 5-knew. Guess my time as a unit armorer shows still! My basic training M16 was built by the GM hydra matic corporation.
Back in the day, I remember being told as a young Marine that the 5.56 ball ammo we were issued had a projectile that was weighted slightly off center. This was what caused the legendary "travel throughout the target" capability of the round. Knowing what I know now about ballistics, I look back on what I was told about the M-16 when I was in the Corps and marvel. Man, was I gullible!
1:44 1 Hybrid Direct Impingement
4:00 2 No Forward Assist Initially
5:59 3 Drainage Grommets
7:12 4 Cartridge Disassembly Tool
9:31 5 Unreliable Function Myth
11:12 🃏 Mattel Toy Company
327 Fed Mag is the best Snub Nose Revolver Cartridge. It fires 32 S&W which has zero recoil. It also shoots 32 H&R and 32 ACP. Plus you get Six Shots instead of Five!
The video you and Chad had on AR assembly from way back when was the best tutorial I’ve ever come across. I assembled my first AR Using that as a resource, before I’d ever even shot one. Just wanted to say thanks, nearly a decade or more later
As a matter of fact,, my Drill instructor explained every one of these on my M-16. I have been down that road a truly misunderstood firearm that has proven it's self through these years since it's reality of the 1950's.
I loved the cartridge-tool thing! Takes me back to my days in the military. Literally all we had was that skimpy cleaning kit in the buttstock and some cartridges. It cracks me up that some people are aghast at the idea of using a live cartridge as a tool for disassembly or adjusting the sights! 30 years later, as an LE rifle instructor, I still do it, and students often look at me like I'm either crazy or like I just somehow spontaneously reinvented the wheel. It's literally part of the design, folks! It ain't magic.
Did you know that the "carry handle" is not a carry handle? It was designed to double as both protection for the charging handle, which originally projected out the top of the upper receiver and looked like an upside down trigger, and because the charging handle was in the way of putting standard sights on top of the gun it also served as a mount for the rear sight. Only later, when the charging handle was relocated to the rear of the upper receiver, did soldiers assume that the design was made for "carrying" the gun.
#6 I did not sign any treaty so can use better ammo than the military issues.
In 1984 in USCG Boot we shot the really old ones with no forward assist. I knew it all except the drain hole, nor did I know about the carrier as a cleaning guide.
The carrier (with the bolt removed) can also be used as a cleaning rod guide.
Why?
@@robertsears8323 Some people like a guide to prevent marring the locking lugs or other internals when using a steel cleaning rod. Also prevents breaking aluminum/bronze rods. Also cleans the inside of the carrier when cleaning the bore.
I knew 4 of them, pretty pleased about this since I've only been training/competing for 2years.
Keep up the great work Eric!
A Singer 1911A1 and a Bren Ten are my two dream guns to own.
Great video. I think it is a great idea to continue with these type. I am a bit older so sometimes the info is not new but sharing this kind of information to pass to the next generation is so important.
Fun fact,the gas rings need not be staggered. Also a spent cartridge can be used to clean the carbon off the tail of the bolt.
I had the original version of the M-16 in the 1980s with no forward assist. One issued to me had "Colt AR-15" stamped on the lower. Some issued to me had the 3-prong flash hider and others had the birdcage.
What you had might have been a Colt 604 from the mid 1960's
@@TheSundayShooter Most likely.
Strange, I guess the old M16 USAF and XM16E1 are stale.
The issue wasn’t the lack of cleaning kits alone but also the wrong powder they used. It raised the pressure at the gas port by like 10,000 psi or something resulting in an increase in rate of fire which bartered the guns till they had catastrophic failures that seized the gun completely.
What's not to love about the most versatile gun ever made?
The fact it is a garbage guy because it is NOT a bullpup rifle.
Any rifle that is not a bullpup is total garbage.
@@robertsears8323 Whoa dude, really?
@@robertsears8323 what’s your favorite bullpup? I think the Hellion and Tavor are great options. Geissele has a trigger pack for the Tavor.
My favorite is the best gun ever made the new MDRX in .308 with the 20in barrel. The trigger is amazing right out the box and the controls work great with me being a lefty. @@awsomedude9111
@MrHeavy466 he's just here to troll. See other comments. Troll in return. He likes it.
At Ft. Dix NJ in 1987 for Basic Training. My very "loose" AR had furniture stamped Mattel. Very strong "WTF" memory, along with them demonstrating how to use the cartridge and beating an obsession with cleaning into us.
I heard the same thing about the furniture on the M16 being made by Mattel way back in the early 90's when I served. I seem to remember a Mattel logo somewhere on the stock, but I am probably wrong, it's been a long time. Back then, we were issued a lot of Vietnam era gear, radios and weapons, including the M7 with the M8 scabbard and old school flak vest and pistol belt & suspenders in Germany.
Love that this channel still uploads.
When going through basic at Happy Valley, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, I remember Mattel being mentioned as we were being trained on the M-16. Not everyone in the AF is armed and I didn't think I would be, though they roped me into being in Security Police during alerts at Spangdahlem AB, so there was an M-16 in the armory that I took out on post with me. Anyway after observing it for endless hours, yes, parts of it could very well have been made by Mattel.
I started training with the M-16 in June '72 and qualified expert for 22 years in the AF. I carried it regularly during exercises running nuc convoys from the WSA and the flight line and back. Heard about the made by Mattel remark but only as a joke. Always had the forward assist.
6:13 My AR didn't come with a manual, I put it together piece by piece.
In the 70s I bought Colt SP1 AR-15 for70 to 90 dollars I had no military experience with the M16s being in the Coast Guard. We had Garrands and Thompson. I wasn’t up on the system for awhile but you got me with the drain hole. Good video and info. Like the change and keep up the good A2 life. Richard
We were calling the A2 made by Mattel in 1970 in Army Basic because the buttstocks breaking off when we were practicing "Butstrokes" on dummies. Never seen it written on anything.
I did not know about the drain hole and I have the A2 and M4 manuals as pdf and have read them. There used to be a web site up that had the history of the rifle and carbine up to 2009 but I can't find it anymore. It had a great deal of information from the Black Rifle books, Congressional testimony at times, Army testing and such.
During Basic Training at Ft. Benning we never used dummy cartridges during rifle disassembly class but it was illustrated on the boards along with adjusting the rear and front sight and yes our Drill Sergeants did mention this when explaining. They said that only use a round to adjust your sights or field strip your rifle in combat, our Drill Sergeants discouraged us from damaging rounds. Instead carpenter nails were provided on the qualification ranges to move our rear and front post. Our Drill Sergeants told us to use our cleaning rods to punch out the retaining pins on the receiver and the threaded end to punch out the firing pin retainer. We also were given smoking pipe cleaners the issued ones to clean the drainage hole on the butt stock. Our Drill Sergeants would always inspect our rifles before turn in to the arms room.
Good video, Eric. It's nice to get back to the original content. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the content. The only thing I didn't know was the drainage. I'm retired Airforce and own an A2.
Same here. Not the Air Force. The drain hole was a new one for me. I thank Curtis LeMay for his courage and forward thinking to be the first to adopt the AR. The Army didn't like that....Good! 🤣
I knew all of these, having been handed an M16A1 to replace an M14. The A2 stock is 5/8" longer. The hole in the base of the pistol grip was for a sling swivel, which was eliminated very early on, but the molding for the A1 pistol grip was never changed/replaced to eliminate the hole in it. Attaching a sling there was awkward and cumbersome and a swivel was part of the A1 buttstock. Some very old, original USAF will have that sling swivel if it hasn't been removed by someone. Original A1 rear sight windage adjustment was deliberately designed to require a tool to change it. Stoner was upset with the A2 redesign and knurled knob. He felt that soldiers would get bored and twiddle with the knob, turning it back and forth, ruining the rifle's battle zero.
I like it when you find a lower that was made by the Hydramatic division of the GM corp.
I always learn something from your vids, thx!
Great Job Eric! Thanks!
I knew all those facts, except the water drain in the buffer. Cool facts.
I was totally distracted by the Whataburger cap and heard the jingle of my childhood “Whataburger is what a burger should be.” I’ll rewatch the video after I go get a 🍔. TIA for the info.
OK, went 4/5, I did not know the drainage hole.
Got a good chuckle on the grunt proof haven’t heard that in a whole lot of years. Thank you for the chuckle.
I knew them all but the first one. You missed using the bullet tip for rear sight windage adjustments so that makes us even. Thank you for another fine video.
@iv8888 Eric, Mattel did make a batch of pistol grips and I understand that some of the troops were inclined to spread the rumor that the whole gun was made by Mattel. Also, the Army Ordinance Bureau insisted that the guns did not need chrome lined barrels or carriers and in combination with powder issues and the climate there were a lot of stoppages. As soon as the cleaning kits arrived were issued and unit armorers swapped out parts & whole rifles the issues disappeared. This was all within a year of the weapons arriving in Vietnam. Now 2 caveats, as best as I can remember, this was how it all went down. So I may have a flub or two in there, secondly all this came directly from the man himself, Eugene Stoner, in an interview that he did, which is available, so I suggest that if anyone wants to know more about the development of the M-16/AR-15 that they start there.
I actually watched an interview series today. Stoner and Kalichicov at a range together talking about their creations with one another. Very interesting watch.
A loaded round can be used to adjust the front *and rear* sights on the M16 and M16A1.
When I went through Basic Training at Ft. Dix back in the mid 70's we were told much of what you have said.
I NEED all of them!
Good video. You can use the ral of the shell to scrape the bolt carbon. (Something people usually do with a tool)
Back in basic training during the mid eighties my m16 hand guards were stamped with "Mattel" logo. You could see it when the hand guards were removed.
On a reserve "drill" weekend at Fort Ord, CA, a friend of mine was issued an M-16 that actually had the Mattel emblem on the side of the stock.
That A1 style furniture in OD green is 100% pure sex appeal
As a first time AR-15 owner, i really like this video, it teaches me so much.
Thanks, that was really helpful. I am really late getting into the AR platform.
would never imagined the Mattel part ❤😂 hahaha awesome
The Buttstock Being A Storage Device For Cleaning Rods, And The Left Side Forward Assist Are The Only 2 That I Did Not Know About.
GREAT REVIEW. THANK YOU MUCH.
I was a navy Seabee in the 80’s and we always got the old hand me downs so I can confirm that some of the M16a1 rifles did in fact say Mattel on the furniture.
My father is a Vietnam Vet 1968-1969. He really hated the M16, to this day he has no use for one. He trained with the M14, got to 'Nam and they handed him a M16. That lasted till it jammed badly in a fire fight . He literally threw the damn thing away grabbed a M79 and never fired a M16 again.
Cool video, 23 years in the Army, Airborne Ranger, LRSD, etc... new most, but had forgot some!
I am an Industrial Electrician and Maintenance Technician. I always find it to be quite disturbing when I hear that grown men don't understand manufacturing is manufacturing. It doesn't matter if you're making toys or rockets. The process literally contains the same steps. The only change is the outcome of the parts manufactured. Plastic is plastic. Metal is metal, etc.
It doesn't matter who turns it into a part for something more complex.
On the A1,you can also use the cartridge tip to adjust the rear sight, too!
My very first M16A1 in basic training at Ft Knox was in fact made by Mattel and was so stamped on the outside of the magazine well. That was 1980!
Wasn't there a myth that it was self cleaning? Either they told troops that or the troops started a rumor about it
Finally back to some of your original content. I've been missing this man. Get Chad on out there too now y'hear.
Great video, I like the concept of this video
In the late 1980s Eugene did Some sit down interviews and they asked him about the forward assist and he said the gun did not need it...an they basically put it on anyway.....
Army, I think, insisted
It was the 15th version of itself as well , I believe. Your spot on about the Mattel stocks n grips. The 10 n the 18 had them too!
These are my favorite type of videos you do.
The Egyptian Hakim rifle is a good example of a true DI system. Nice looking classic A2 AR15.
*Mattel did indeed manufacture the M16-A1* - I know because I had one...
My mom bought it for me from Rose's department store in Burlington, NC when I was six or seven years old! Lol!
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FYI, by the time I made it to basic in '86, the A1 I was issued was actually a "rode hard and put up wet," Nam-issued AR-15 converted by Colt (to full-auto, M-16 status.) Sadly, though, there were zero "Mattel" roll marks present...
*smirk😏
i heard some of the barrels were not lined (coated) during the early years, which led to failures due to the high humidity
The biggest problem was the chamber was not chrome lined. The chamber would rust and cause the cases to get stuck and cause the guns to jam.
Everything you talked about I learned in basic training in April of 1985 we had the M16 A1
Ian from forgotten weapons actually addressed the Mattel myth. It is in fact an urban legend or myth. Mattel never had any contracts from the military to make any gun parts according to his research.
This was great!!
The .22 conversion kit from CMMG is pretty cool. just slapped in in my AR and my daughter was having a blast in minutes.
I own an early 1980s manufactured Colt AR-15 Model SP1 that does not have the forward assist. I also own a 1980s manufactured fully transferrable Colt M16A1, which does have the forward assist. They are almost exact copies of each other excepting the forward assist and the 3-position selector switch.
Nice video Eric. I 've seen training rifles (dummy) were stamped Mattel but have never seen an actual Mattel rifle.
Here's one... Eugene Stoner's orginal workshop was located in Hollywood, CA, on the corners of Seaward St and N Hudson Ave along Santa Monica Blvd...😎
I knew most of these before and some served as a good refresher :)
I did know all 6 but I’m a nerd been building a lot of retro ARs lately great video still entertaining love ya
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Happy New Year!
I worked on Air Force M16's from the early 80's to the mid 90's (Retired USAF Combat Arms). Most were made in the 60's and 70's. None had forward assists (including our GAU-15 short, barreled versions) and I don't remember any situation, including the infamous dirty chamber that everyone talks about, that required a forward assist. If your gun got so bad, so dirty, and so full of mud etc. Then you needed to clean it, not jam it into the chamber so it was almost impossible to remove in the field or cause an out of battery detonation. Jamming the round into the chamber in those conditions could result in an out of battery detonation by the bolt being almost not quite in battery (but off by a couple thousands of an inch), but still able to fire causing the shell casing to fragment or possibly blow out the receiver. Remember military guns are usually the lowest bidder and Colt made decent guns, but M16 receivers can only take so much abuse. One of my relatives in the Army did witness that situation a couple of times during his career when soldiers used the forward assist to jam a round into a muddy or dirty gun causing an out of battery detonation or required the armorer to remove a live round from the chamber. I never saw a need for forward assists, but truthfully I never slogged thru mud, muck, and dirt trying to use my M16 in combat against someone shooting back at me.
11:40 about the Matel myth, there where several videos just in the last few weeks about that and write ups float around since a long time.
Matel is not known to have been suncontracted to produce ANY parts for the M16.
However, they made the toy Marauder, whcih apparently was even used by the militaray for parade oder excersise guns, which might have started that rumor.
I owned one for 10 years before I realized the bottom half of the trigger guard folds down
Using a cartridge as a tool.
The only fact you need to know: YOU NEED ONE! ACTUALLY MORE THAN ONE!
It’s not a gas piston driven system at all due to the fact that the gas flows freely into a chamber that expands (like a piston in a CAR) instead of slamming into a rod (a piston in a gun) that actuates a bolt moving rear word with other means of unlocking like, tilting fn, rotating with force Ak, or a roller locking system like the hk.
Had to pause the video at the mattel plastics part. I enlisted in the US Army back in December 1983, during basic we trained and qualified with an M16A1. I can honestly say the weapon I was issued did in fact have the mattel logo on both the forearm sections and the buttstock. In hindsight, wish I'd taken photos if I'd known that topic would be debated decades later.
The topic is debated mainly because when you mention mattel and M16A1, some think the entire weapon was produced by mattel. It was only the plastics, clam shell forearm and buttstock pieces that were produced by mattel.
11:30 Mattel never made any parts or furniture for the AR-15
My father-in-law was in the National guard from 1962 to 1968. Most of the time he carried an M1 Garand or M1 Carbine. However, for a short time he carried the M14. He complained that the M14 jammed a lot, and didn't like it. I was issued the M16A1 and M16A2 in the military. I think they are great battle rifles. You just have to clean them. Just like any other weapon that you are issued.