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Old 05-26-2022, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by villager7591 View Post
An AR-15 is not a military weapon. Think of a .22 rifle with an ammo clip.
Actually, it is. "ArmaLite first developed the AR-15 in the late 1950s as a military rifle, but had limited success in selling it. In 1959 the company sold the design to Colt.

In 1963, the U.S. military selected Colt to manufacture the automatic rifle that soon became standard issue for U.S. troops in the Vietnam War. It was known as the M-16.

Armed with that success, Colt ramped up production of a semiautomatic version of the M-16 that it sold to law enforcement and the public, marketed as the AR-15."
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