Summary and Key Points: The M16 rifle, designed by Eugene Stoner and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1960s, has remained ...

not rifles. But the carmaker's Hydra-Matic division played a big part in manufacturing the M16 -- the most widely used infantry weapon in the history of the U.S. military. In 1948, after analyzing ...

Some M14s are still used by military marksmen. For much of the Vietnam War, the M16 was the standard issue rifle for American troops. Using aluminum and other composite materials, the M16 is ...

Government forces discovered high-powered firearms buried by communist rebels in a shallow pit in Tboli, South Cotabato, on ...

Dallas County commissioners have authorized a sheriff's department request for M14s, M16s and an armored personnel carrier ...

The last time the Army did this was in the 1960s when it went from the 7.62 mm [M14 rifle] to the 5.56 mm [M16 ... pressure from the Chinese military in the Indo-Pacific.

The general marched into the Pentagon soon after and demanded that the military purchase the weapon. It would become the standard-issue rifle—renamed the M16, for the prosaic “Model 16 ...

Three communist insurgents were killed and two others surrendered in a series of armed encounters in Surigao del Norte, the ...