cfreund@PICA.ARMY.MIL (CCL-L) (01/24/91)
From: "Charles T. Freund" (CCL-L) <cfreund@PICA.ARMY.MIL> |The M16 is issued to most troops with a selector that allows selection of |either 3 round burst or single shot modes, although the one i had had all three |-- 3 round, single, full auto. In fact, it may be that all of the M16s are |issued with the 3 position selector. However, the regular riflemen are only |supposed to use either single or burst mode and the squad/platoon machine |gunners are issued or are supposed to use the full auto M16s. If you had an M16 with a four position selector (safe,single,burst,auto) someone screwed up BIG time. There were a few prototypes made with this capability, but these were never intended to be fielded. The US has never (intentionally) issued one of these.