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Combining the ever-popular AR platform with the iconic .45 ACP cartridge, the Guard, reviewed here, required CMMG to design a completely new operating system that it claims minimizes the carbine’s overall weight and felt recoil.

The Revolution is not simply an adapted AR-10; it is, in fact, closer to an AR-15, sharing many of the same dimensions and parts of the smaller rifle

Among the many firms that produce AR-pattern rifles, some merely assemble parts and put their logos on the box, while others actually manufacture the firearms that wear their names.

When Springfield Armory announced its Saint last year, the company promised that the new rifle was just the first model in what was to become a full line of AR-platform products.

Yankee Hill Machine Co. (YHM) makes a broad variety of parts and accessories for AR-pattern rifles, however, the 66-year-old machining company from Florence, Mass., is also in the business of producing complete firearms of its own.

Robar Guns, a company usually associated with specialty firearm finishes and plating, recently introduced a lightweight variant of the AR-15.

When a firearm is as modular as the AR-15, it is only a matter of time before someone pushes the boundaries to chamber it for a cartridge that maximizes its power potential.

A prime example of form following function, the Kriss USA Vector is a pistol-caliber carbine built around its unorthodox, but innovative, operating system.

Installing without tools onto a full-size M1911 frame (not included), the Mech Tech Carbine Conversion Unit (CCU) legally coverts John Browning’s venerated pistol into a 16¼"-barreled carbine.