ABERDEEN, Md. (Army News Service, May 6, 2011) -- Since June, the Army has fielded about 30 million of its new 5.56mm M855A1 "Enhanced Performance Rounds" in Afghanistan. The cartridge, sometimes ...

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U.S. lawmakers recently questioned Army and Marine Corps leaders on small-arms and why the two services buy completely different bullets for the M16A4 rifles and M4 carbines. "You guys are using two ...

Gun-rights groups are in an uproar over an ammunition ban proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF says it wants to ban M855 ball ammunition, a .223 (or 5.56 ...

Sgt. William Francis Coffey II fires an M4 5.56mm carbine rifle April 2015. In 2018 the Marine Corps will be adopting the Army’s enhanced 5.56mm rifle round for Marines in combat. (Lance Cpl. Adam O.

A popular type of ammunition for AR-15 semiautomatic rifles won’t disappear from shelves after a federal agency reconsidered a proposed ban. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...