Not wanting to start an agruement about guns (well maybe we should. hijack his thread:) ) one of my friends in the States says the Air Force Security still use origional pattern Triangular forward handguard M16's.
And that only now were some M16A2's being filtered through to the NG. That they have been using M16A1's and M16's until now.
But that aside, the weapons still have a semi auto setting.
KBK
The 5.56x45mm round it fires is a capable man stopper, with little chance of over penetration. Its one of the best systems for stopping human atackers.
The only drawback is the M16 is a little long.
As for "filling the space with lead" well the M16 was issued in 3 variants, the M16, the M16A1 and the M16A2. Not I don't know what vatiants these guys youare talking about had, but the origional M16 with the triangular handguard has safe, semi and full auto settings.
The slightly revamped M16A1 has a circular handguartd, and safe, semi and full auto settings.
The latest issue M16,the M16A2 has Safe, semi and 3 round burst.
As you can see the point I'm trying to make is all these weapons have a SEMI AUTOMATIC setting.That means one click one bullet. Like a pistol. Only with greter chance of stoppign an atacker.
The M16 weapons system is capable of engaging man sized targets out to 300m easily. On semi auto. I doubt weither they would be firing at anything even CLOSE to this range inside a building. Even the NG should be able to make multiple hits on a person at under 100m ranges.
As for the Paris troops with the finger on the trigger, as said before, this isn't smart. The 4 main rules for firearm handleing are 1) all guns are alway loaded 2) keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire 3)never let the muzzle cover anything you aren't willing to destroy and 4) be sure of your target and the beyond.
Now these guys are breaking one of these rules. Mistakes happen. Thats why people keep the finger off the trigger. These guys might have a different training system, but I would still feel safer without the finger on the trigger.
BUT! None of these people are actually meant to enter into a gunfight with maddned terrorists. They are meant to provide visible policing. All this is meant to do is remind the public that there is someone watching them. They are also there to provide support should anything happen, but they are really there to be seen.
PS with propper training you can actually shoulder a slinged weapon suprisingly fast.
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Not wanting to start an agruement about guns (well maybe we should. hijack his thread :) ) one of my friends in the States says the Air Force Security still use origional pattern Triangular forward handguard M16's.
And that only now were some M16A2's being filtered through to the NG. That they have been using M16A1's and M16's until now.
But that aside, the weapons still have a semi auto setting.
KBK
Actually the M-16 is a very versatile weapon.
The 5.56x45mm round it fires is a capable man stopper, with little chance of over penetration. Its one of the best systems for stopping human atackers.
The only drawback is the M16 is a little long.
As for "filling the space with lead" well the M16 was issued in 3 variants, the M16, the M16A1 and the M16A2. Not I don't know what vatiants these guys youare talking about had, but the origional M16 with the triangular handguard has safe, semi and full auto settings.
The slightly revamped M16A1 has a circular handguartd, and safe, semi and full auto settings.
The latest issue M16,the M16A2 has Safe, semi and 3 round burst.
As you can see the point I'm trying to make is all these weapons have a SEMI AUTOMATIC setting.That means one click one bullet. Like a pistol. Only with greter chance of stoppign an atacker.
The M16 weapons system is capable of engaging man sized targets out to 300m easily. On semi auto. I doubt weither they would be firing at anything even CLOSE to this range inside a building. Even the NG should be able to make multiple hits on a person at under 100m ranges.
As for the Paris troops with the finger on the trigger, as said before, this isn't smart. The 4 main rules for firearm handleing are 1) all guns are alway loaded 2) keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire 3)never let the muzzle cover anything you aren't willing to destroy and 4) be sure of your target and the beyond.
Now these guys are breaking one of these rules. Mistakes happen. Thats why people keep the finger off the trigger. These guys might have a different training system, but I would still feel safer without the finger on the trigger.
BUT! None of these people are actually meant to enter into a gunfight with maddned terrorists. They are meant to provide visible policing. All this is meant to do is remind the public that there is someone watching them. They are also there to provide support should anything happen, but they are really there to be seen.
PS with propper training you can actually shoulder a slinged weapon suprisingly fast.
KBK