[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***the “Matty Matell” and is now called the AR-15,***

Back in the late 1960s, a men’s adventure magazine had a cover painting of a wounded US soldier and a beautiful nurse fighting against the VC. The weapon the soldier was using was an M-16. A copy of the Matell toy M-16.

I had a gun shop owner tell me that some M-16s were made by Matell. I tried not to laugh in his face.

[freedomlover]

The toy M-16 made by Matell

[null and void]

I had a gun shop owner tell me that some M-16s were made by Matell. I tried not to laugh in his face.

Some of the stocks actually were. Mattel has the capability to mold large parts when we needed to rapidly ramp up production at the beginning of the Vietnam unpleasantries.

As any company would have done in those days, Mattel proudly stepped up to the plate when the country needed them.

[headstamp 2]

“I had a gun shop owner tell me that some M-16s were made by Matell.”

I had thought the stocks and forends were made by them at first.

[GladesGuru]

IIRC, Hackworth stated the term was a derogatory nickname applied to the early models due to the faults he described.

[Hardastarboard]

some M-16s were made by Matell.

I'm no expert on the subject, but I think I remember reading that the plastic parts were molded by Mattel. Mattel probably wouldn't have been able to make the metal parts very well.

[Starstruck]

I had a gun shop owner tell me that some M-16s were made by Matell. I tried not to laugh in his face.

Back when I was in the service we referred to our .45 machine guns as "Mattel Shooting Shells"

[Chode]

if you look real close, that's what John Wayne smashes against a tree in The Green Berets when Sgt. Kowalski gets killed...