"After a series of tests and eventual adoption by other branches of the U.S. military, the AR-15, now the M-16, entered the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam as a malfunction-prone mess. The weapon, after failing in combat time and time again, eventually prompted a 1967 congressional inquiry and a Marine Corps investigation after a Marine officer criticized the weapon in a widely read letter published in The Washington Post, Chivers said.
The M-16 and its civilian counterpart bear only an external resemblance to its Vietnam-era ancestors and are considered mostly reliable, if properly maintained, by today’s standards."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/06/13/the-history-of-the-ar-15-the-weapon-that-had-a-hand-in-americas-worst-mass-shooting/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_ar-15-3pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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