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>>3675489
Not really, what caused malfunctions was that the initial M16 series rifles was designed for a lower pressure ammo than what the army was using (because it was cheap), the higher pressure ran the action way too fast (by a couple of hundred rpm faster), and it could sometimes just go out of sync and have things like hammer-follow, like you pull the trigger and nothing happens because the hammer didn't stay cocked, or the extractor didn't grab onto the empty casing to pul it out.

This was fixed with the A1 variant by giving it a heavier recoil buffer, slowing down the action so it would time properly. It also came with a cleaning kit in the stock and was given a chrome plated bore and chamber (which made it easier to clean and made extraction easier).

The second problem was that magazines were originally designed to be disposable, as in, made as cheap and flimsy as possible because you were meant to leave it in the field and get new ones, but they ended up being reused partially because of money, partially because they'd run out of magazines, these magazines could only load 20 rounds one time, then you couldn't load them fully anymore or they wouldn't work properly.
They eventually stopped making these and made proper reusable magazines, and later made curved 30 round magazines which were just a better design.

A lot of people talk about cleaning, but that was never really the biggest problem, the M16 can actually be allowed to get quite dirty without loss of reliability, bad magazines and out of spec ammunition is the source for 99% of all firearms malfunctions.

>>3418591
>250k
Buy a transferable M16A1 rifle and invest AT LEAST 50k of what you have.