If you have not been aware of it, Colt Canada has a website which deals with Canadian military versions of the M-16, Colt support for the Para-Ordinance Canadian military pistols, and the .338 rifle Canadian Forces also use.

Using all the drop-down menus at the site also leads to a lot of interesting other info. Here's the url:

http://www.coltcanada.com/c7-page.htm

One of the things that makes the site interesting to me is that they post all this info on the Canadian versions of what we call the M-16, but civilian Canadian shooters are no longer allowed to own them, whether full-auto OR semi-auto. That doesn't mean no Canadians do have them, but one wouldn't want to try to register one there nowadays. They pay even less attention to ridiculous federal bureaucrats than the folk in most remote Idaho do.

Got to love this bad boy!

why is it called a chain gun?

thanks.