Army Seeks Gun Industry Help On M4 Carbine
The Army is asking the gun industry to build new components for its soldiers’ primary weapon — the M4 carbine — a move that experts say is a tacit admission that the service has been supplying a flawed rifle that lacks the precision of commercially available guns.
At a recent Capitol Hill hearing, an Army general acknowledged that the M4’s magazine has been responsible for the gun jamming during firefights.
On the federal government’s FedBizOpps.gov website, the Army announced a “market survey†for gunmakers to produce a set of enhancements to essentially create a new model — the “M4A1+.†It would include a modular trigger, a new type of rail fitted around a “free floating†barrel and other parts. The upgrade is supposed to improve the rifle’s accuracy and reliability.
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