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Originally Posted by General Pain
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It's sort of like the reasons why the US military refuses to replace the M-16/M-4 series with
anything -- it's so completely embedded in the US military that no one wants to have to change training methods, get new rifles and parts in the supply chain, ditch the millions of 5.56mm rounds we have stockpiled, write new TMs and training manuals, and above all (at least right now in the US), spend the money it would take to transition to a new rifle. Total inertia.
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