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.

Summary and Key Points: The M16 rifle, designed by Eugene Stoner and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1960s, has remained a staple due to its reliability, modularity, and effectiveness.

Lewisham Police and armed police units have seized a cache of weapons from an address in Catford.

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’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 ...

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 ...