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The M16- How The US Sabotaged America's Rifle (youtube.com)
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The gas tube, also known as the direct impingement system, made internal durability unreliable. Almost any AR-15 rifle with the gas tube, including KAC rifles issued to British Army SOBs and Royal Marines, couldn't fire after being submerged.