“Tag: gas impingement”

Stag Arms of New Britain, Conn., opened shop as a maker of AR-15-type rifles back in 2003—specializing particularly in left-side-ejecting models in order to better accommodate the left-handed segment of the gun community—but it wasn’t until 2017 that the company took its first crack at the larger AR-10-style platform.

For more than a century, Savage Arms has kept its customers shooting with a variety of traditional sporting arms. Now it has an updated logo and a new series of MSRs—in this case, Modern Savage Rifles—based on the AR-15 design.

For those wishing to convert a direct-gas-impingement AR to piston operation, Superlative Arms offers its Retrofit Piston Kit that is designed to keep the action clean of carbon residue and heat.

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.

The STD-15 Model A is a carbine-length, direct-gas-impingement self-loading rifle, available in either left- or right-hand configurations, that feature an M4 barrel, nitride bolt carrier group, and a delta-ring and clamshell-style handguard that has M-Lok slots.

Coated with a tough NiB-X finish, the WMD Big Beast .308 Win. Rifle Kit provides a custom AR platform that customers can dress up any way they like.

From the Dope Bag Archives: February, 1963.

Can the gas-piston AR system overtake the longest serving military rifle, or will the gas impingement system soldier on?

How closely do civilian AR specifications resemble those of the military?