Talk:M4 carbine
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Semi-protected edit request on 16 February 2025
Add Mexico in users, both Army and Navy use it, it even shows on The Wikipedia pages of Both Mexican Army and Navy equipment 189.174.238.255 (talk) 08:58, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. BilCat (talk) 11:06, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- Ok
- https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1734783
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Army 189.174.238.255 (talk) 06:41, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- Neither of these are reliable sources. Please review the above link you were provided carefully, it already explains why. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 08:46, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Source (5) related to rate of fire is dead
Hi,
As the title said : source related to rate of fire is linked to a 404 page. 2A02:A03F:B17C:3000:D97D:A49D:B2F0:DF02 (talk) 13:42, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
- Resolved and/or moot... the live PDF and the archive link both worked fine for me just now.... - Adolphus79 (talk) 19:55, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
"fully Automatic"?
The Term Automatic is correct. "fully Automatic" is a redundant civilian term. The selectors on weapons say: safe-Semi-Auto" or "Safe-Semi-Burst". Full automatic is like describing a car's transmissions "fully auto". Wrong. It is Automatic or Semi Automatic (paddle shift), or Manual. 2600:1011:A03F:D546:F999:20ED:598B:FB0C (talk) 16:42, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Select fire: "semi-automatic, fully automatic, and/or burst mode"
- It's just a way to differentiate unambiguously between semi-automatic and (fully) automatic. (Hohum @) 17:31, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- And burst mode, which is automatic but limited to 3 rounds fired. -Fnlayson (talk) 18:40, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- The IP is so confidently wrong, it's humorous. All branches of service within the DoD use the term "fully automatic". You can literally pick up the TM for maintaining the M4A1, it's right there under "Equipment Characteristics, Capabilities and Features":
The M16 series rifles and M4 series carbines are lightweight weapons. They are air-cooled, gas-operated, and magazine fed. They have a semiautomatic, burst fire capacity, or full automatic fire."
Thanks for playing, better luck next time. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 19:18, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Number built wrong
It should be in the millions built not 500k 2600:1700:1DC6:5810:A8C3:AE0E:8E4:464A (talk) 17:21, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- Do you have a reliable source for this number? - Adolphus79 (talk) 17:53, 20 September 2025 (UTC)




