Lewisham Police and armed police units have seized a cache of weapons from an address in Catford. Officers seized a number of weapons after being called to an address in Moremead Road at 4pm today ...

Police forced entry into the address and seized an M16 assault rifle replica which will be forensically tested and a large machete. @MPSLewisham tweeted: "Londoners are that bit safer now your ...

Key Points – The M16 rifle’s introduction during the Vietnam War was deeply controversial despite its “on-paper” advantages over the M14—lighter weight, higher ammunition capacity, and ...

REPLICA guns, some of which look and feel like the real deal, continue to be sold over the counter legally, despite successive deaths and crime sprees sparked by the fake weapons.

The M16 series rifle, adopted by the Pentagon 1965, was a gas operated, direct impingement weapon designed to fire the new 5.56-millimeter round.

The M16 of the Vietnam-era, though aesthetically similar, is not the M16 of today. The rifle of the 1960s was plagued with malfunctions due to issues with ammunition, corrosion resistance and ...

A suspected leader of a robbery gang died, while another one was wounded on Monday when they were shot by a policeman, who they tried to rob using an M16 rifle replica, at Capitol Heights 2 in ...

By the early 2000s, the Army was replacing its M16 rifles with the M4 carbine for frontline service. ... The resulting rifle is a near-perfect visual replica of the M16A4.

The M16’s predecessor in U.S. military service, the 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 caliber) M14, had become the standard-issue rifle back in 1959, except for the U.S. Air Force Air Police/Security Police ...