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It is not the cost of the material in the firearm. It is that there a finite # of full auto weapons on the market - Legally. So no more are available to the public unless you are a special security Company.
Interesting. Thanks, It a bunch or Bullsh**, O'well back to the drawing boards.
That's why I carried 45 clips on special team, (2 tape together in my Car-15, 1 in my steel pot, and 6-vanalears, 200 rds of 60, and about 10 or so grenades (M-26's). No baseball one. Better than half the time those baseball wouldn't go off. Never hand that problems with the M-26's. Pitched a lot of the grenades for the unit. Never missed and no time left on the grenade. Also carried a 1911, 3 clips and a box of 50. Plus an M-5 Aid packet. I was a combat medic."D" troop, 3/4 Cav. 25th inf Div. 1969. I was over 6'-2" and gotten down to 155lbs with cloths and boots on. When I went to Vietnam I was @ 210lbs without closes on.
Never seen a 3 shot burst M-16 in Vietnam. If you could control the trigger then you could get it down to 3 shot. While I was qualifing at Fort Sam we had some targets that had a set circels in different lines . Semi circels, L shapes, dieangles lines and a X. We were to shot on full auto at those line. I was about 2" off the lines on the targets I was shooting at. The AR 15 was an easy firearm to handle. Not much recoil or pushing one way or the other. I wish we had cell phones back then. I would have taken picture of it.
When I was in the Marines we trained in a heavy vegetation course (25-50 yrds), and they had electronic (or string pulled) pop-up targets looking like NVA or black PJs. Had to shoot full auto on the course. Pretty easy with a M16. Much rather semi auto.
In the Army in basic we only pitch one live grenade. I felt like they made you afraid of them. After I was in the 82 Airborne Div. We had a PT course that required pitching I believe was 5 dumbe grenades about 30yd away. I put all in the 10 ring. The others judging the pitches counldn't believe it and neither did I.
In Vietnam and assigned to an infantry platoon. For several months we acted as dismounts in front of an Armor Cav Troop. So being my men were on the ground so was I. Out about 30 to 50 yds in front of the Tanks and APC. We would pitch grenades into old bumkers as we walked along. Any way I figured I would work on taking time off the grenade before putting it down the hole. I got so I would release the spoon with my arm corked to pitch the grenade. Count off 2 sec and release or pitch it on the 3rd count. Into the hole and about 1 sec it would exploded. We did that during a fire fight. With tanks and Apc's we would as dismount directly behind the APC or Tanks and take care of the bunkers as they came up. Sure would scare the Sh** out of you if one would showed up coming out from under the tank or APC. Anyway that's how we took care of them. I would always have a man back me up in case somebody would pop up. I had that happen to me one time. He was taken care of. I've seen them move around with the grenade going into the hole, but that was it. "Surprises" My saying was a grenade aday kept the gooks away. 
. It didn't work that way, but felt it was a good saying anyway. Never did see anybody pull the pin out with their teeth
. I laugh everytime I see it in a movies.
Our training "PITS" in the Marines. The deck was sloped to the rear and had a 8-10" pipe hole probably 18" deep "Grenade Sump". This was in case the recruit dropped the grenade it would hopefully roll or be kicked by the instructor into the hole and blow up there. Would save the lives of the instructor and recruit, but the recruit would most likely get a real a** whooping.
I wonder where you got your info from. There wasn't any 3 shot m-16 in Vietnam that every saw. I don't even think I would want one anyway. i can just see it. Trying to open up and 3 shots you stopped. have to depresss the trigger again.
