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Developers say the rifle with the futuristic-looking curves is a marked improvement over the M-16 because it is shorter, lighter, easier to clean and unlikely to jam in a firefight -- an M-16 shortcoming illustrated in the ambush that wounded former POW Jessica Lynch and killed 11 of her comrades in Iraq. |
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/b...55804325040.xml
Here's links with info on it and pictures of it.
http://www.hk-usa.com/pages/military-le/ri...rbines/xm8.html
http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/000905.html