As an infantryman with tours to Iraq I can say i never had a problem with an M16. Sure, they might require some cleaning but that's part of it and if you do it right after a mission there should be no problems. The old CLP sucks, if you use something like Mil-Tec or some sort of dry lube they work fine. It all comes down to how well you take care of your weapon. Only time I've had one jam after a couple magazines was at a range when it was freezing cold and the thing heated up so fast it the metal expanded to fast and that's what happens. As for the AK, the only reason it is so reliable is beacuse of how loose the tolerances are that it is built too, there is so much room in that receiver that mud and all kinds of crap can get in there and it still fires, but the price of that is accuracy, or total lack of it. The round an AK uses doesn't do the damage to the human body that one from the M16 does either, it just leaves a hole, easy fix, nothing like getting hit and then the round tumbles and bounces all over inside the body like ours do, can't plug holes you can't see. I would rather spend a little extra time cleaning and M16, which your supposed to do anyway, and have my accuracy than just some spray gun.
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