“Tag: ArmaLite”

Developed off the 7.62 NATO AR-16, the ArmaLite AR-18 was an inventive 5.56 NATO assault rifle much like the firm's famous AR-15, and though over shadowed, its short-stroke gas piston system has inspired many current generation designs.

The history of ArmaLite is long and tortured, filled with marvelous innovation and crushingly bad timing. Yet, now it looks like its day has finally dawned.

Fans of piston-driven ARs now have a new option in the BRN-180 system, a modernized recreation of the unique AR-180 as developed by Eugene Stoner.

Taking a look at the ArmaLite AR-18, a stamped sheet-metal combat rifle developed by the same firm as the AR-15 just years later on "I Have This Old Gun."

In this overview we take a look at a storied survival rifle design from the genius of Eugene Stoner, The ArmaLite Rifle 7, or AR-7.

Fewer than 10,000 original AR-10s were produced, and its true legacy is its spawning of its smaller caliber successor.

There is a small, but dedicated, cult market for the AR-18 rifle, which appears to be fueled by the lack of availability.

American Rifleman's Mark Keefe talks about his competition-ready, retro AR-15-style rifle built back in the early 90s.

Amongst the prototypes and production models of the AR-5 and AR-7, the author discovered a full-sized plastic replica of the Strategic Air Command’s (SAC) survival rifle, a little-known relic of ArmaLite history and a throwback to a time when guns joined cars and airplanes on the shelves of model stores.