Sorry, I just got too many stories from my Vietnam vet roomie in college about the day they took the m14's away and gave them a toy plastic gun that jammed every time you fired it and had dinky bullets that leaves would deflect, and expected them to go to war with that crap. They didn't even issue cleaning kits to the troops, claiming cleaning was not required...

Roomie had to tear his down twice in the same firefight due to jams. You can just start to say M16 to this day, and he'll start singing " M - I - C, K - E - Y, .....

Not responsible for advice not taken...