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ArmaLite AR-15 with the charging handle located on top of the upper receiver, protected within the carrying handle and a 25-round magazine. 1973 Colt AR-15 SP1 rifle with "slab side" lower receiver (lacking raised boss around magazine release button) and original Colt 20-round magazine. M16A1 rifle with forward assist, raised boss around ...
The Colt Model 655 M16A1 Special High Profile was essentially a standard A1 rifle with a heavier barrel and a scope bracket that attached to the rifle's carry handle. The Colt Model 656 M16A1 Special Low Profile had a special upper receiver with no carrying handle.
The Model 605 CAR-15 Carbine was a shortened version of the of Colt's M16E1/M16A1 for situations where longer weapons could be unwieldy, such as inside armored vehicles, ships/boats, or helicopters. There were only a very small number of known prototypes of the carbine made sometime after the 1963 award of the first contract to Colt's for the ...
The Colt Automatic Rifle or Colt Light Machine Gun is a 5.56 mm NATO, open-bolt, full-automatic-only firearm developed by Colt Defense. It is based on the M16A2/A4 , and has a distinctive squared-off handguard, vertical grip, carrying handle and integrated bipod.
1873 Colt Single Action; Colt M1861 Navy; Colt 1851 Navy Revolver; Harper's Ferry Model 1805; Beretta M9A1; Beretta M9; Rifles, Carbines, & Muskets early M16 model rifle M1 Garand rifle. United States Marine Corps Squad Advanced Marksman Rifle (SAM-R) Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR) M16A1/M16A2; M14 Rifle; M1 Garand; M1917 Enfield; M1903 ...
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.
Eugene Morrison Stoner (November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997) was an American machinist and firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was redesigned and modified by Colt's Patent Firearm Company for the United States military as the M16 rifle.
The C8 has a 368 mm (14.5 in) A1 profile barrel like the Colt Model 653 M16A1 carbine, but with a 1 in 178 mm (7 in) rifling twist appropriate for adequately stabilizing the 5.56×45mm NATO C77 cartridge L109 ball and the C78 cartridge longer L110 tracer projectiles and the design improvements featured on C7 assault rifles. The C8 has a cyclic ...