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Nothing makes sense to me anymore.

For years - the M16A2 just wasn't getting it done - we needed.........
........shorter barrels

we NEED shorter barrels

So everyone got shorter barrels - then they realized that things were a little...
....off. Things were still just a little off and we needed to fix it - bad guys weren't dying quite the way we wanted them to die - 5.56 rounds from an M4 just weren't killing bad guys the right way.

we needed something a little extra....
....so SOF went out and bought some SPR's
....because we needed something with a little bit more barrel
....and then turned around and spent 12 jillion dollars buying 10 inch uppers

Then complained that something was still a bit off
...so we looked for something better - we needed a new gun

So we bought SCARS
...some of which were in 5.56
...but they had long AND short barrels
...but we didn't keep them because they sucked

We also bought 7.62 SCARS because it came with different barrels so we could shoot it at longer ranges
....but we still needed to spend a lot of money on a new 7.62 semi-auto sniper gun
...so we bought a bunch of older M14s and hot rodded them
...and we bought a bunch of guns that were nothing more than Gucci style M16A2 rifles chambered to fire 7.62
...but we still aren't quite there yet

Then we needed piston driven M4s because 10' inch gas guns and piston driven SCARS in 5.56 weren't quite the answer we wanted - it had to be an M4 platform with a piston.


.....and that horrible caliber choice we have been cursed with - oh Jesus - 5.56 wont kill any body unless it is in the hands of a child. An M4 is useless in a CQB situation - no adult sized target killing capability


Soooo...... as soon as we can field a new caliber, in a slightly different gun, we can start finding reasons why that one doesn't work either.