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Although the M14 was phased out of service in the sixties, M14 variants are still used by various U.S. branches, and in many other armies, especially as a sniper rifle and/or a designated marksman rifle, due to its excellent accuracy and effectiveness at long range.
Few M14s were in use in the Army until the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. But since, many M14s are seen in use as designated marksman and sniper rifles.
Some units of the U.S. Marine Corps have also used the M14. For example, in the Philippines from 1989 to 1991, the Scout Snipers of the Subic Bay naval base used M14 NM with ART II scopes during jungle patrols because the base had only one M40A1 rifle. The 5th Platoon, FAST Company (Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team), used M14s called M14 DM (for Designated Marksman) rifles for designated marksman purposes to ensure protection of U.S. diplomatic mission in Somalia in 1993. In the mid-1990s, the USMC chose a new rifle for DM use, which is a M14 modified by the Precision Weapons Shop in Marine Corps Base Quantico named Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR). It is intended to be used by security teams (SRTs, FAST Companies), and USMC Scout Snipers in the cases where a semi-automatic rifle would be more appropriate than the standard bolt-action M40A1/A3 rifle. USMC Rifle Team use also M14 in shooting competitions.
The United States Air Force Honor Guard and Base Honor Guards use the M14 for 3-volley salutes in military funerals. It is also the drill and parade rifle of the United States Naval Academy and the Virginia Military Institute.
Various Special Operations Forces (SOF) are still using M14 variants. Probably the most famous are the Navy SEALs, which have used M14 from infantry rifle role to marksman rifle and to sniper rifle. It seems that as soon as the Vietnam War, SEALs used modified M14 as sniping rifles. M14s have also widely been used without special sights as infantry rifle, probably because it is more reliable than the M16 for naval purposes.
Although being a very secretive unit, the "Delta Force" is known to have used M14 sniper variants. According to Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, the well-known account of the battle of Mogadishu, at least one of the "D-Boys", Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart, used an M14 for sniping from helicopters to provide support fire to ground troops. His M14 was probably fitted with an Aimpoint 3000 sight.
During the Clinton administration, 479,367 M14 rifles were destroyed by Executive Order The BATFE considers the M14 to be a "machine gun" under Federal law. Source: Wikipedia.org
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