MikeK
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- Jun 11, 2010
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I am not personally familiar with either weapon but my understanding is the AR-15 is a knock-off of the M-16, the single exception being the M-16 enables full-auto bursts while the AR-15 mechanism is restricted to semi-auto only.[...]
The military calls it the M16 but the cops would have called it an AR-15 but it is the same weapon.
Odds are the cops misidentified it.