Gun Trouble
The rifle that today’s infantry uses is little changed since the 1960s — and it is badly flawed. Military lives depend on these cheap composites of metal and plastic. So why can’t the richest country in the world give its soldiers better ones?

December 30, 2014 at 06:41AM
via Digg http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/gun-trouble/383508/