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M4 Carbine Legitimacy

The legitimacy of the M4 carbine as a distinct evolution of the M16 family, developed and adopted by U.S. services in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Feb 5, 2026

The CAR-15 rifle was the original; the M4 carbine is just a copy, and shouldn't exist.

The was an early family of carbine-length variants derived from the AR-15/M16 in the 1960s and influenced later short‑barrel designs, but it is not the singular “original” that makes the illegitimate;...

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