Wow, Just Wow. If this doesn't shed light on the .gov true agenda for you, your hopeless. Course those of us tin foil hatters have known things were way wrong for some time.
These ARE truly ASSAULT RIFLES that are being put on the streets, when the left says there should be none!
Now I noticed that this was thought up in June of last year, but have not found the release date of the completed bid notice. That would be an interesting piece of information.
Technically an M16 or M4 is a PDW (personal defense weapon) as are pistols. The real offensive weapon is the squad, especially armed with grenades and mortars. It is the explosives that do the damage, even machine guns are there mostly to suppress enemy fire. If you are going up against an enemy, individual weapons (PDWs) are not enough. It takes heavy weapons and explosives to be "offensive".
Thus we need to stop referring to semi auto rifles as "assault rifles" (ARs). Rather they are personal defense weapons (PDWs).