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The Colt AR-15 is a product line of magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt") in many configurations. [1] The rifle is a derivative of its predecessor, the lightweight ArmaLite AR-15 , an automatic rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and other engineers at ArmaLite in 1956.
1:7 Yes A1 or A2 Colt Advanced Combat Rifle: Retractable ACR ACR Type S-1-3 or S-1-F Flattop Yes Yes 5.56 NATO 20 in. A2 1:7 No ACR compensator M231 FPW: FPW Wire Short Round S-F None No No .223 REM 15.6 in. HBAR 1:12 No A1 M231 Recoil Operated Rifle: None Short Round S-F None No No .233 REM 15.6 in. HBAR 1:12 No A1 Colt Advanced Piston Carbine
After the Vietnam War, Colt would mainly focus its attention to carbines with 14.5-inch (370 mm) or 20-inch (510 mm) barrels, but continued to make carbines with 11.5-inch (290 mm) barrels, which they called Commandos. The first of which was the Colt Model 733, which was created from whatever spare parts Colt had lying around.
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Established in 1999, GunBroker.com is one of the world's largest online marketplace for firearms. [2] GunBroker.com was founded by Steven F. Urvan after eBay started restricting gun sales. [3] [4] Urvan ran the company until it was acquired by Ammo, Inc in 2021. [5] At the closing of merger, it had $60 million in revenue and 6 million ...
M4 Carbine. Colt was the original producer of the M16 rifle, rights to which it purchased from designer ArmaLite, and today offers a complete "Family of Weapons" based around the derivative M4 Carbine, which includes a heavy barreled rifle (HBAR), a carbine with sliding stock (M4 & ACC-M), a personal defense weapon with folding-collapsible buttstock (SCW), a piston carbine (APC), a Commando M4 ...
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The family name was derived from the original AR-15 by adding "Colt", resulting in the CAR-15, to stand for Colt Automatic Rifle, even though the "AR" in AR-15 stands for Armalite Rifle, the original manufacturer. [3] The CAR-15 weapons system consisted of the AR-15 and five variations, including the Colt Machine Gun and CAR-15 Heavy Assault ...