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Blackvegetable » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

5 minutes ago

Yet soon after launch, Colt would get a boost of legitimacy from the Vietnam War. The company’s AR-15 was the civilian variant of the M16 rifle, which the U.S. military adopted as its service rifle, and the conflict helped popularize both weapons. 

“Now you can buy a hot new combat rifle for sport,” Popular Science wrote in early 1965, welcoming the new AR-15.


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We're outta here....again

 

The first order came from the Air Force, ca. 1962....for semi auto AR-15s.