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It must be an individual weapon; It must be capable of selective fire, which means it has the capacity to switch between semi-automatic and burst/fully automatic fire; [4] It must have an intermediate-power cartridge: more power than a pistol but less than a standard rifle or battle rifle. For full-power automatic rifles, see List of battle rifles;
1:9 No A2 R6721 AR-15A3 Tactical Carbine 4th Generation Short Ribbed S-1 A2 Yes Yes .223 REM 5.56 NATO 16 in. HBAR 1:9 Yes A2 R6724 Sporter Competition HBAR A2 Ribbed S-1 Flattop Yes Yes .223 REM 5.56 NATO 24 in. HBAR 1:9 No A2 R6731 AR-15A3 Competition HBAR A2 Short Ribbed S-1 A2 Yes Yes .223 REM 5.56 NATO 16 in. HBAR 1:9 No A2 R6750
An AR-15–style rifle is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle based on or similar to the Colt AR-15 design. The Colt model removed the selective fire feature of its predecessor, the original ArmaLite AR-15 , which is a scaled-down derivative of the AR-10 design (by Eugene Stoner ).
In the past decade, firearms manufacturers have made about $1 billion from the sale of AR-15 style weapons. 4. Millions of AR-15 style rifles in the U.S. According to the National Shooting Sports ...
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifle,Anti air cannon and any other variants.
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
There was a second belt-fed machine gun developed under the CAR-15 program called the CMG-1, CMG-2, and CMG-3 in 7.62 NATO that was not based on the existing AR-15/M16 design. However, the U.S. military only made significant purchases of the existing M16 rifle and the SMG model, later called the Commando versions, so Colt abandoned the CAR-15 ...
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