So how does the La France Rifle fare? Today, we will discuss one of the most famous rifles used in Hollywood and the rifle that everyone who has a happy trigger wants to lay their hands on.
When you think about it, the La France M16K when read on paper can be quite of a hell of an idea, which is a somewhat shorter than the usual M16 that handles low-pressure round, so it can be used for use from vehicles or other close quarters and easy to suppress too.
It’s still a good idea in real life. Dating back in 1980s, Tim La France decided to come up with a short-barrel M16. Today, the problem with that can be attributed to the fact that shortening the gas tube on an M16 will increase the rate of fire. But La France figured out a solution, had it patented and then set about creating some of the most awesome looking short-barrel M16s that were very popular with certain government agencies – and Hollywood. If you were always watching action flicks back in the 80s and 90s then you would have spotted someone with a variant of SBR M16, it was one of his guns.
The M16K was born when somewhere along the line La France Rifle decided to make a variant that would be designed from the start to shoot the .45 ACP cartridges. Shifting from the conventional 5.56 rifle round to the .45 meant losing a fair bit of power, but it also made the M16K more useful to fire from enclosed spaces such as in cars and helicopters. The K stands for “Kurz” which is German for short.
As a whole this weapon is good though there are slight problems because the front handguard is also mounted for the front sight. The handguard won’t stay attached firmly therefore the sight kept moving left and right.
There were people who would compare this gun to a high-quality AR. Perhaps it still depends on handling.
Recoil here as expected is minimal and testing different .45 ammo were about as good as the other 16-inch barreled carbines.
On the plus side, this gun will use standard Thompson .45 magazines. The magazine well is designed to position the magazine towards the rear, and the chamber has long feeding ramp, which seems to help in avoiding the feeding problems with hollowpoints – something that can be an issue with some .45 carbines.
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