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The ArmaLite AR-18 is a gas-operated rifle chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition.The AR-18 was designed at ArmaLite in California by Arthur Miller, Eugene Stoner, George Sullivan, and Charles Dorchester in 1963 as an alternative to the Colt AR-15 design, a variant of which had just been selected by the U.S. military as the M16.
Semiautomatic 12ga 2shot shotgun based on the earlier AR-9. AR-18: 5.56×45mm NATO: ArmaLite, Howa Machinery Company, Sterling Armaments Company: An inexpensive, easy to make, stamped steel rifle. Also known as "The Widowmaker" in Northern Ireland. AR-180: 5.56×45mm NATO: Howa Machinery Company, Sterling Armaments Company: Semi-automatic rifle ...
The Armalite AR-18 – obtained by the IRA from the United States in the early 1970s and an emotive symbol of its armed campaign. Harrison spent an estimated US$1 million in the 1970s purchasing over 2,500 guns for the IRA. [9]
The AR-18. Armalite and ballot box was a political catchphrase used to define the strategy pursued by Irish republicans from 1981 up until the 1994 IRA ceasefire [1] in which Sinn Féin ceased its policies of election boycott and abstentionism and instead contested elections in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, while the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) pursued an armed ...
ArmaLite, or Armalite, is an American small arms engineering company, formed in the early 1950s in Hollywood, California.Many of its products, as conceived by chief designer Eugene Stoner, relied on unique foam-filled fiberglass butt/stock furniture and a composite barrel using a steel liner inside an aluminum sleeve, including the iconic AR-15/M16 family.
ArmaLite AR-18: ArmaLite: 5.56×45mm United States: yes 1969-1985 ArmaLite AR-100: ArmaLite: 5.56×45mm United States: Armtech C30R: Armtech Ltd: 5.56×45mm (Quadrant with 3.56g standard M193 bullet, dimensions of the rectangular ammunition 35.7×15.8×9.5 mm) Australia: 1986 AS-44: 7.62×39mm Soviet Union: no 1944 AS Val: TsNIITochMash: 9× ...
Most adults in the United States drink alcohol, but there is steadily growing public concern about the health effects of moderate drinking. The latest science supports those concerns, but two ...
ArmaLite AR-15; ArmaLite AR-18; ArmaLite AR-100; B. Barrett M468; Barrett REC7; Bendix Hyde carbine; Bushmaster M4-type Carbine; C. CAR-15; Carbon 15; Close Quarters ...