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first mass-productionHuey » 8 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ AI Overview
Colt created and released its first mass-production civilian semi-automatic AR-15—the Colt AR-15 Sporter (SP1)—in 1964. Colt had developed the semi-automatic concept and produced a limited pre-production run of roughly two dozen rifles for evaluation in 1963, with full-scale production and sales following the next year
the first semi auto AR-15 s were not "mass produced"..