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    The Colt AR-15 is a lightweight, magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt"). The rifle is a derivative...
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    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...
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    of the Colt AR-15 and M16 rifle family of weapons produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company. Weapons patterned on the original ArmaLite AR-15 design have...
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    to carry more ammunition. In 1959, ArmaLite sold its rights to the AR-15 to Colt due to financial difficulties and limitations in terms of manpower and...
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    AR-15. Colt later abandoned the CAR-15 concept, but continued to make carbine variations, using the "M16" brand for select-fire models and the "Colt AR-15"...
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    AR-15–style pistol is a handgun assembled using an AR-15–style receiver with suitable parts to create a pistol held and fired with one hand. Colt's Manufacturing...
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    and given the designation ArmaLite AR-15. In 1959, ArmaLite sold its rights to the AR-10 and AR-15 to Colt's Manufacturing Company due to financial difficulties...
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  • the CAR-15, to stand for Colt Automatic Rifle, even though the "AR" in AR-15 stands for Armalite Rifle, the original manufacturer. The CAR-15 weapons...
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  • to the Colt AR-15 design, a variant of which had just been selected by the U.S. military as the M16. A semi-automatic version known as the AR-180 was...
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  • after the patent on the Colt AR-15. It may also refer to: Colt AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle manufactured and trademarked by Colt's Manufacturing Company...
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  • ergonomics. The Colt Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940 is a magazine-fed light machine gun. It fires the 5.56×45 mm NATO cartridge. The rifle accepts AR-15 magazines...
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    M4-WAC-47 (category AR-15 style rifles)
    Aeroscraft (a division of Worldwide Aeros Corporation). Based on the Colt AR-15 platform, it can fire the Soviet standard 7.62×39mm or the NATO standard...
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    Sheriff's Office said they located the suspect's car, a semi-automatic Colt AR-15 mounted with a sight, a gun case, several additional magazines, a phone...
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    M16 rifle (redirect from Colt M16)
    (2023–present) Adaptive Combat Rifle List of Colt AR-15 and M16 rifle variants List of AR platform cartridges Colt 9mm SMG Comparison of the AK-47 and M16...
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    design later picked up by Bushmaster Firearms. The Carbon 15 line is closely based on the Colt AR-15 design. They are distinguished by their carbon fiber construction...
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  • are respectively trademarks of ArmaLite and Colt, variants of both are made by many manufacturers. The AR-15 rifle usually comes chambered for either the...
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    The Colt Model 933 is a compact carbine based on the AR-15, M16 rifle and M4 Carbine produced by Colt starting in 1995. Due to its compact size, the short-barreled...
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    1982 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Banks shot fourteen people with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, killing thirteen and wounding one."). 513 Pa. 318...
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    in The Hutchinson News (Kansas) in 1978 for the Valmets-7.62×39, the Colt AR-15, and the Wilkinson Terry carbine. Another was in a bill introduced by...
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    rifle (AR) is one of a series of rifles the ArmaLite company made or, more generally, a rifle based on one of its designs, such as the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle...
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  • rifles like the Colt AR-15 are not assault rifles; they do not have select-fire capabilities. In contrast, the original ArmaLite AR-15 would meet the criteria...
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    LVOA-C is a direct gas-impingement (DGI) operated rifle based on the Colt AR-15. It features a proprietary full-length fore-end with an integrated muzzle...
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    semiautomatic and manual-action rifles and even handguns, such as the Colt AR-15, Ruger Mini-14, Remington Model 700. The popularity of .223 Remington...
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  • IMI Uzi and Galil. (3) Beretta AR-70. (4) CETME Sporter. (5) Colt AR-15 series. (6) Daewoo K-1, K-2, Max 1, Max 2, AR 100, and AR110C. (7) Fabrique Nationale...
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    experimental 40 mm grenade launcher developed by Colt Firearms as the CGL-4 (Colt Grenade Launcher). Colt manufactured the launcher for field testing during...
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    Retrieved 2013-10-18. Colt Defence CK901 SHOT 2016: Colt’s CK901 7.62×39 AR To Come To Civilian Market Bonafide Colt AK: Colt releases the 7.62×39 CK901...
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    Smith & Wesson M&P15 (redirect from M&P 15)
    abandoned in 2011 due to poor sales. The rifle model is based on the Colt AR-15. Smith & Wesson offers the M&P15 semi-automatic rifles in different configurations...
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    Dragunov Rifle Gewehr 43 SVT-40 Ag m/42 Hakim rifle Rasheed Carbine AR-10 AR-15 L1A1 Rifle Heckler & Koch PSG1 Heckler & Koch SL8 Heckler & Koch SL7...
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  • Black rifle may refer to: ArmaLite AR-15 Black Rifle Coffee Company Colt AR-15 M16 rifle Modern sporting rifle This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Though they did not develop it, for a long time Colt was also primarily responsible for all AR-15 and M16 rifle production, as well as many derivatives...
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