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>M16 didn't even start to rehabilitate its reputation until A1, but really later than that in A2 for the most part.
Not him but wasn't that mostly Colts fault for employing monkeys with wrenches basically and building rifles with shit tolerances and out of spec parts hence why a million new AR companies sprung up to do what Colt was doing for MIC and civilian contracts better and cheaper and almost permanently sent their ass to deadnigger storage for good had the Czechs not saved them from the shadow realm so they could just make Python revolvers till the end of time basically?