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Anderson Manufacturing Anderson Manufacturing United States Civilian, law enforcement, military Anschütz J. G. Anschütz GmbH & Co. KG: Germany Civilian Rimfire and centerfire rifles. Most used rifles in biathlon: Arctiier Arctiier Armstech United States Civilian, military ArmaLite: Strategic Armory Corps United States Civilian, military ...
Rifles styled like the AR-15 come in many sizes and have many options, depending on the manufacturer. The lower receiver, without the receiver extension, rear takedown pin, and buttstock, is shown at bottom. An AR-15–style rifle is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle based on or similar to the Colt AR-15 design.
AR-15.223 Remington, 5.56 NATO: ArmaLite, Colt's Manufacturing Company: A lightweight assault rifle. A smaller version of the AR-10 and adopted by the United States military as the M16 rifle. Later developed by Colt into a popular semi-automatic Colt AR-15. AR-16: 7.62×51mm NATO: ArmaLite: Prototype battle rifle. ArmaLite AR-17: 12 gauge
The “AR” in AR-15 rifle stands for ArmaLite Rifle, after the company that developed it in 1957. The letters do not stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle.” In 1959, Colt ...
Gunmaker Colt bought the manufacturing rights to the AR-15 in 1959. Most of the patents on the gun expired in the 1970s, allowing other gun companies to build their versions.
The most traced American-made firearm in the 2018-2020 dataset is the semi-automatic Anderson Manufacturing AM-15, often viewed as a “budget” variant of the AR-15 chambered to shoot the ...
The Armalite AR-15 is the parent of a variety of Colt AR-15 and M16 rifle variants. History After World War II, the United States military started looking for a single automatic rifle to replace the M1 Garand , M1/M2 Carbines , M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle , M3 "Grease Gun" and Thompson submachine gun .
The AR-15 rifle usually comes chambered for either the military cartridge 5.56×45mm or the .223 Remington. Because of the pressures associated with the 5.56×45mm, it is not advisable to fire 5.56×45mm rounds in an AR-15 marked as .223 Remington, since this can result in damage to the rifle or injury to the shooter. [ 1 ]