Armalite sold the rifle’s design to another firearms manufacturer, Colt, in 1959. Four years later, the U.S. military selected Colt to manufacture a standard-issue model of the AR-15 ...

However, long before the AR-15 was vilified by American politicians, another ArmaLite rifle was gaining notoriety “across the pond” in the early 1970s, viewed as either a terrorist’s weapon ...

Shortly thereafter, ArmaLite was invited to submit a rifle for consideration by the Air Force for its new survival rifle. The firearm the company submitted, a .22 Hornet-cal. bolt-action takedown ...

The IDF “escape and evasion” rifle is a rare and unique piece of ArmaLite and military aviation history. It seems like the rifles lived up to Briklee’s promise. Not all good stories are a myth.

AR-15 style rifles have been used in some of the most notorious mass killings in recent history: Newtown, Aurora, Vegas, Texas, ... (“AR” stands for “Armalite Rifle”).

The “AR” in AR-15 stands for “ArmaLite Rifle.” ArmaLite is the company that designed and developed the AR-15. It was the rifle division of an aircraft company called Fairchild.

T he Allen mall shooting on May 6 was the 199th mass shooting of 2023, marking the most recent incident in which a gunman chose to use an AR-15 style rifle during the tragic event.. Referred to as ...

AR-15s - Armalite Rifles - are similar to the weapons used in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub and Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. Matt Payton. Thursday 23 June 2016 13:41 BST.

Daily Wire associate editor Virginia Kruta provided some history, tweeting, "World War II ended in 1945, and the ArmaLite Rifle (AR) was not a thing until nearly a decade later.

The Washington Post and NPR trace the history of the modern AR-15 back to the 1950s, when its original manufacturer ArmaLite (now Colt) created the M-16 machine gun. The M-16 became standard issue ...

Armalite sold the rifle’s design to another firearms manufacturer, Colt, in 1959. Four years later, the U.S. military selected Colt to manufacture a standard-issue model of the AR-15 — dubbed ...