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Jovan,
Actually, the current Springfield Armory Inc. is not remotely affiliated with THE Springfield Armory that produced weaponry for the military (see link below). If you want to really think about the issue of patenting government designations, Springfield Inc has been ripping off the defense department since 1974 with their very name and logo. Their 1911-A1 has also incorporated a loaded chamber indicator and a "lawyer switch" into the mainspring housing. Yuck. There's a special place in hell for those corporate officers authorizing the modification of John Moses Browning's designs. Now, I've also owned springfield 1911-A1s in the 1990s when Colt was producing total garbage. Thankfully, those days are gone. I also think you might be being a bit rough on the M4 and it's sensitivity to sand (problems largely solved in the Vietnam era have hounded the designs reputation for decades)...but it doesn't really matter....I like the M1A better anyway.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/spar/history.html
Actually, the current Springfield Armory Inc. is not remotely affiliated with THE Springfield Armory that produced weaponry for the military (see link below). If you want to really think about the issue of patenting government designations, Springfield Inc has been ripping off the defense department since 1974 with their very name and logo. Their 1911-A1 has also incorporated a loaded chamber indicator and a "lawyer switch" into the mainspring housing. Yuck. There's a special place in hell for those corporate officers authorizing the modification of John Moses Browning's designs. Now, I've also owned springfield 1911-A1s in the 1990s when Colt was producing total garbage. Thankfully, those days are gone. I also think you might be being a bit rough on the M4 and it's sensitivity to sand (problems largely solved in the Vietnam era have hounded the designs reputation for decades)...but it doesn't really matter....I like the M1A better anyway.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/spar/history.html