CAR-15

CAR-15 - CAR-15 Rifle. By the time the idea of the CAR-15 family was developed, Colt had already been producing two rifle variants for the US military. Colt's CAR-15 family included two rifles, one with the forward assist function (Model 603) and one without (Model 604). Both of these weapons were purchased by the US military, and more information can be found on the M16 page. See also:

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Except for the very first delivery order, all U.S. military issue M4 and M4A1 possess a flat-top NATO M1913-specification rail on top of the receiver (for attachment of optical sights and other aiming devices — Trijicon TA11 and TA31 ACOGs and Aimpoint M68 CCOs being the favorite choices), and a detachable rail-mounted carrying handle. The current government standards are the Colt Model 920 (M4) and 921 (M4A1). The major difference between these models is that the M4 has the "S-1-3" (safe/semi-automatic/3-round burst) fire modes, while the M4A1 has a "S-1-F ...

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M4 Carbine, M4 Carbine - Headline text, M4 Carbine - History and variants, M4 Carbine - Design, M4 Carbine - Accessories, M4 Carbine - Lessons learned reports, M4 Carbine - Operation, M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution no magazine fitted, M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution magazine fitted, M4 Carbine - Load, M4 Carbine - Ready, M4 Carbine - Fire, M4 Carbine - Unload, M4 Carbine - American civilian ownership, M4 Carbine - Popular Culture, M4 Carbine - In Films, M4 Carbine - In Games

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The M4A1 carbine, an improvement upon the M4 carbine intended for Special Operations use, features a fully-automatic fire mode, a flat-top NATO M1913-specification rail on top of the receiver (for attachment of optical sights and other aiming devices — Trijicon TA11 and TA31 ACOGs and Aimpoint M68 CCOs being the favorite choices), and a detachable rail-mounted carrying handle. The M4A1 can be found in use by many U.S. military units, including the U.S. Army Rangers, Delta Force, U.S. Navy SEALs, and the United ...

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The Galil project began after the Six-Day War, and the design was selected by the IDF from two competing designs. The winner was based on the Finnish Rk 62 (a variant of the AK-47). The first rifles began to arrive in 1974, after the Yom Kippur War. The Galil was designed to be a domestically produced main battle rifle for the IDF, taking the best features of other rifles, such as the M16 and AK-47, and putting them into one rifle. That rifle could be adapted to any number of tasks. The result was the IMI Galil. The Galil was used by the infantry during the Lebanon War in 1982; but towards the mid-1980s, it wa ...

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IMI Galil, IMI Galil - History, IMI Galil - Usage, IMI Galil - Variants, IMI Galil - Manual

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The M4/M4A1 5.56 mm Carbine is a gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine fed, selective fire, shoulder-fired weapon with a collapsible stock. A shortened variant of the M16A2 rifle with a 36 cm barrel, the M4A1 provides the individual soldier operating in close quarters the capability to engage targets at extended range with accurate, lethal fire. The original M4 Carbine had semi-automatic and three-round burst fire modes, while the M4A1 has "semi" and "auto" with no three-round burst. The M4A1 Carbine achieves over 80% commonality with the M16A2 ...

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Sales of M4 by Colt are restricted to military and law enforcement. Only under special circumstances can a civilian own an M4 Carbine. The 14.5-inch barrel would classify the weapon as a "Short-Barreled Rifle" according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATF). The rate of fire (even for burst-firing models) would classify it as a machine gun. While many machine guns can be legally owned with a proper tax stamp from the BATF, the Gun Owner's Protection Act of 1986 barred the transfer to civilians of machine g ...

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The operating drills for the M4 are identical to those of the M16. M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution no magazine fitted. Safety precautions should be performed when taking possession of the weapon from another user, or any time the state of the weapon is unknown or in doubt. As with all firearms, always assume for safety purposes that such a weapon has a round in the chamber, ready to fire. Point the weapon in a safe direction, pull the cocking handle to the rear (a round may be ejected) and hold it there, ex ...

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The M4 has been featured in countless films and video games. M4 Carbine - In Films. S.W.A.T. (2003) M4 Carbine - In Games. Half-Life Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series Battlefield 2 ...

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The M4/M4A1 5.56 mm Carbine is a gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine fed, selective fire, shoulder-fired weapon with a collapsible stock. A shortened variant of the M16A2 rifle with a 36 cm barrel, the M4A1 provides the individual soldier operating in close quarters the capability to engage targets at extended range with accurate, lethal fire. The original M4 Carbine had semi-automatic and three-round burst fire modes, while the M4A1 has "semi" and "auto" with no three-round burst. The M4A1 Carbine achieves over 80% commonality with the M16A2 ...

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838 mm (33 in) (stock extended) 3.0 kg (6.6 lb) w/ 30 rounds The M4 Carbine traces its lineage back to earlier carbine versions of the M16, all based on the original AR-15 made by Armalite. The weapon is a shorter and lighter version of the M16A2 assault rifle, achieving 80% parts commonality with the M16A2. The M4 has selective fire options including semi-automatic and three-round burst (like the M16A2), while the M4A1 has a "full auto" option in place of the three-round burst. The M4A1 is sometimes also found with a he ...

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Only under special circumstances can a civilian own an M4 Carbine. If their carbine were merely semi-automatic, the short barrel would classify the weapon as a "Short-Barreled Rifle" according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATF). However, the rate of fire (even for those burst-firing models) would classify it as a machine gun. While many machine guns can be legally owned with a proper tax stamp from the BATF, the Gun Owner's Protection Act of 1986 barred the transfer to civilian of machineguns made in the US af ...

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M4 Carbine, M4 Carbine - History and variants, M4 Carbine - Design, M4 Carbine - Accessories, M4 Carbine - Lessons learned reports, M4 Carbine - Operation, M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution no magazine fitted, M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution magazine fitted, M4 Carbine - Load, M4 Carbine - Ready, M4 Carbine - Fire, M4 Carbine - Unload, M4 Carbine - American civilian ownership

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The operating drills for the M4 are identical to those of the M16. M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution no magazine fitted. Safety precautions should be performed when taking possession of the weapon from another user, or any time the state of the weapon is unknown or in doubt. As with all firearms, always assume for safety purposes that such a weapon has a round in the chamber, ready to fire. Point the weapon in a safe direction, pull the cocking handle to the rear (a round may be ejected) and hold it there, ex ...

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M4 Carbine, M4 Carbine - History and variants, M4 Carbine - Design, M4 Carbine - Accessories, M4 Carbine - Lessons learned reports, M4 Carbine - Operation, M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution no magazine fitted, M4 Carbine - Safety Precaution magazine fitted, M4 Carbine - Load, M4 Carbine - Ready, M4 Carbine - Fire, M4 Carbine - Unload, M4 Carbine - American civilian ownership

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Nowdays, there are a number of models used: Galil ARM - the main version. Galil SAR ("short") - no bipod or carry handle, shorter barrel. Galil MAR ("micro") - which retains the internal features with a completely new frame and even shorter barrel. It has been reported that this weapon is subject to severe overheating, becoming too hot to touch after sustained automatic fire. A redesigned version is now in service with Israeli special forces in undercover operations, small enough to conceal under a jacket, yet extremely powerful. A Galil MAR variant with a redesigned receiver and front sight is in widesprea ...

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IMI Galil, IMI Galil - History, IMI Galil - Usage, IMI Galil - Variants, IMI Galil - Manual

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The Galil's main problem is weight; it is heavier than the M16A1, at around 3.9 kg (8.6 lb) empty vs the M16A1's 2.9 kg (6.4 lb), and therefore often considered to be a greater burden as a personal weapon for infantrymen, although its short length due to the folding stock made it very popular with the troops (Galil 840/614 mm vs M16A1 986 mm). The weapon never caught on among Israel's numerous special forces units, who used AK-47's both for reliability, and because of the Galil's cumbersome weight. Fighting infantry units therefore were reis ...

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IMI Galil, IMI Galil - History, IMI Galil - Usage, IMI Galil - Variants, IMI Galil - Manual

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Gary Gordon was born in Lincoln, Maine in 1960. Master Sergeant (MSG) Gordon, U.S. Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on October 3, 1993 while serving as Sniper Team Leader, United States Army Special Operations Command with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia. Gordon's sniper team provided precision fire from the lead helicopter during an assault and at two helicopter crash sites, while subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenade fire. When MSG Gordon learned that grou ...

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The original "Commando" was created when Colt began developing the AR-15 pattern, newly acquired from Armalite. The need for a shorter handier weapon had been expressed by a number of forces engaged in the expanding conflict in South East Asia in the mid 1960s, and Colt responded with an ultra-short variant as part of its new CAR-15 family, the Model 607 CAR-15 Commando Model Submachine Gun. Note that calling it a submachine gun was a new trend in sub-machine gun naming, as previous SMGs were all chambered for pistol, rather than rifle ammun ...

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Colt Commando, Colt Commando - Early models & naming, Colt Commando - The XM177 and the GAU-5/A, Colt Commando - Late 1970s and 1980s, Colt Commando - Related models, Colt Commando - In fiction

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Gun politics in Australia - Settlement to 1980s. Australia has a long history of legitimate firearms use, predominantly for the purposes of agriculture, recreational hunting and pest control. During the early years of the settlement at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (now Hobart, Tasmania) the British colonists were heavily reliant on a diet of kangaroo and wallaby meat for survival. Convicts assigned as servants to free settlers were often issued firearms for hunting purposes. However, the British colonist ...

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Armalite sold its rights to the AR-10 and AR-15 to Colt in 1959 after which the AR-15 was adopted by the United States military under the designation M16. Colt continued to use the AR-15 trademark for its semi-automatic variants. Today the AR-15 and its variations are manufactured by many companies and have captured the affection of sport shooters and police forces around the world due to their low cost, accuracy, and modularity. Please refer to the M16 for a more complete history of the development and evolut ...

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AR-15, AR-15 - History, AR-15 - Technical data, AR-15 - Variants, AR-15 - Legal status in the United States

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The latest Shrike production model has recently emerged from development. While orders have been taken for a few years with downpayments, few of the actual sold models have been delivered. There exist some notable differences between the current model and the prototypes it was based on. EXP-1 - the initial proof-of-concept prototype. It features a modified M249 handguard, a unique firing mechanism and a quick-detach barrel latch derived from the Stoner 63. EXP-2 - this improved prototype featured a new Picatinny rail handguard, an improved firing mechanism using some M16 components, and a new barrel latch simi ...

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Ares Shrike 5.56, Ares Shrike 5.56 - Overview, Ares Shrike 5.56 - Variants

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Sergeant First Class (SFC) Shughart, U.S. Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on 3 October 1993, while serving as a Sniper Team Member, United States Army Special Operations Command with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia. Shughart provided precision sniper fire from the lead helicopter during an assault on the target building and at two helicopter crash sites, while being subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire. While providing critical suppressive fire at the ...

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Randy Shughart, Randy Shughart - Biography, Randy Shughart - USNS Shughart

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