Because it's more expensive to make a completely new weapon system than to take an existing design and just giving it a makeover. I mean, the Army spent how much on the XM8 project and it went down the drain. It is much more practical to stick to what soldiers are already used to than to retrain them in something completely new and less expensive than to replace the exisiting weapons the military is already using. Magazine types, ammo type. That's all important.
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Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle
Psalm 144:1
“It is always wrong to use force, unless it is more wrong not to.”
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