The original M-16 patent ran out years ago, and now the AR-15 is manufactured by several gunmakers.

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That is almost as far as America's main assault rifle, the M-16, can shoot conventional bullets with accuracy.

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The Iraqi M-16 fire, or maybe heavier machine gunfire, is now starting.

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The rifle is a Bushmaster version of a widely made AR-15, the civilian version of the M-16 rifle used by the U.S. military.

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When he runs around from one part of the perimeter to another, his M-16 blazing, the movie is exciting in a rudimentary, gung-ho way.

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Then the 31-year-old company commander pointed his M-16 rifle and provided cover for his men to carry the wounded woman to the safety of an ambulance.

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But like the M-16, ammunition is loaded through a magazine.

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Coalition commanders have tightened procedures for tracking the weapons, including using biometric data from Iraqi soldiers and police -- and since June, Iraqi units have been issued U.S.-made M-16 and M-4 rifles, which are electronically tracked, the official said.

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They returned fire with 50-caliber machine guns, they also returned fire with their M-16's -- Marines pointing out of the top firing, but not indiscriminantly, that is something the Marines point out -- only when they were fired upon and only when they could see the flashes, did they fire back.

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The 22-story project comprises 16, 000 sq m of office space and a 3, 000-sq-m retail podium.

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Since 4 February more than 67, 600 sq m (16 acres) have been resurfaced - the equivalent of nine football pitches.

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Exhibit 16 -- and I'm just -- I'm not going to go through all of this, but I want just want to briefly show the frantic activity on this particular day.

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The Ariane 44L rocket equipped with four liquid strap-on boosters -- the most powerful in the Ariane-4 series -- lifted off at 7:16 p.m. local time (2216 GMT) from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch center in Kourou, on the northeast coast of South America.

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"I'm going to use YouTube a lot more, " the 16-year-old said.

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"I don't know if I have the maturity to handle what I'm doing right now, so I don't know if a 15- or 16-year-old should really be doing it, " Vetell says.

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"I'm so proud of this team, " said a teary-eyed Marah Strickland, who scored 16 points to lead the Rams.

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I'm referring to laws that make it illegal for an unskilled, badly educated, inexperienced 16- to 24-year-old to get a job that pays him what he's worth.

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The 16-month-old arrived at the hospital with a fever around 9:30 p.m.

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