Claymore --

Your post earlier about the sources of US military weapons and weapon systems was interesting and I did a little checking. Here's some things I discovered.

*The M16A2, A3, and A4 rifle is manufactured by Colt, a good US company, and by Fabrique Nationale, a good Belgian company.

*The M240 machine gun is manufactured by Fabrique Nationale.

*The 9mm pistol is manufactured in the US by Beretta, an Italian company. (Not liking the caliber I forebear from giving the M- designation.)

Colt has licensed M16 production to Isreal, but the US military does not, as far as I can determine, use any of these weapons.

For some things of interest, peek at the weapons systems at this site; the bottom of the page devoted to each system details the major suppliers for the weapons system.

Your nom du claviers, "Claymore," can refer of course to the Scottish sword. It can also, as I'm sure you're aware, refer to the M18A2 Claymore antipersonnel mine -- used by the US in Vietnam, developed by the US for Korea, and, like the M60 machine gun of fond memory, invented (but in this case never perfected) by the German Army for WW2.