It goes back even farther back than Bradley's. The M-16 snafu of the 60's. So many were on the M-14 gravy train via contracts and Army Ordnance Corps (FYI which no longer exist because of the M-16 snafu) that they wanted, nay the needed the M-16 to fail so they made sure the chamber wasn't chromed and they switch from ball to stick gunpowder. That is why you hear to this day stories of the unreliability of the M-16 because of all the malfunctions that happened during the Vietnam war.
It goes back even farther back than Bradley's. The M-16 snafu of the 60's. So many were on the M-14 gravy train via contracts and Army Ordnance Corps (FYI which no longer exist because of the M-16 snafu) that they wanted, nay the needed the M-16 to fail so they made sure the chamber wasn't chromed and they switch from ball to stick gunpowder. That is why you hear to this day stories of the unreliability of the M-16 because of all the malfunctions that happened during the Vietnam war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mby4hOq-DpI