Firearm experts - is/was the M16 a piece of crap?

[Derleth]

@Ken001

For the moment, on the off-topic of Afghanistan, there are reports saying the insurgents are outshooting the Coalition soldiers at long ranges. The reasons given are that they use heavier rifles (often quite ancient) and that Afghani tribesmen learn to shoot from childhood.

Some things don’t change:

@Arithmetic on the Frontier

One sword-knot stolen from the camp
Will pay for all the school expenses
Of any Kurrum Valley scamp
Who knows no word of moods and tenses,
But, being blessed with perfect sight,
Picks off our messmates left and right.

“The odds are on the cheaper man” indeed.