Every time I get sucked into the M14 was better than the M16A1 drama, for some reason I always forget what a disaster the roll-out of the M14 was.
While individual rifles might be fine guns, as a whole the manufacture, distribution and issue was a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
Big enough to shut down Springfield Armory forever.
Big enough that every single project concerning general issue battle rifles was moved up and an outsider's proposition was considered... You know, that strange black thing the Air Force bought to replace their M1 carbines?
It's no wonder that there weren't really any export customers and those few made their own. Italy even went so far as to completely replicate the process of product improving an M1 Garand from scratch producing the similar in concept BM59, which served until 1990.
It's also telling that the supposedly harder to manufacture FAL didn't encounter such problems in production.
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