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Originally Posted by wheelgun28
The designer was Stoner, Eugene Stoner. Not a big deal but just want to be accurate.
Eugene Stoner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another story is that the original M-16 didnt have proper cleaning kits and that the troops were not trained in cleaning and maintaining a direct impingement rifle. As the prior guns were all piston operated.
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I don't think the ARs were piston operated. They were designed with the gas tube, which is self cleaning by the way.