User blog comment:USMC Lance/Whats the better rifle: M16 or AK47?/@comment-4278557-20111018205629/@comment-1866089-20111020163312

modern M16A4's are very reliable and even the later M16A1's used in Vietnam were much more reliable that common knowledge would have you believe, the M16A1's reliability problems in Vietnam were greatly exaggerated, by 1969 they had almost fixed all the major problems, once chrome-lined bores and barrels, along with the switch back to stick powder were implemented along with proper cleaning(kits). most of the reliability issues disappeared, but the initial problems severly effect the M16's reputation and quite falsely really