Reeder Custom Guns - I think the AR-15 was always to be semi

Gary Reeder
I think the AR-15 was always to be semi
Friday, June 17, 2022, 13:33

Stoner was working to get a military contract on both the M-16 and the AR-10 but ran out of money and sold the patent for both guns to Colt. Colt released the first semi AR-15s in late '64 to the public. I was still in radio then but working part time at a gun shop in Clarksville Tennessee and we got a couple of the first AR-15s in and nobody wanted them because they didn't look like any normal hunting rifle or target rifle. All the ammo at the time and for years afterward was Remington 223. All the 5.56 was going to Viet Nam.
A few years later Bushmaster came out with their version of the AR-15 except it was a pistol and it sure was ugly.
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I don't think the gun shop sold any of them and just sent them back to the distributor.

? Was the AR-15 originally designed as semi automatic. I - SPB, 2022-06-16, 07:46
- I think the AR-15 was always to be semi - Gary Reeder, 2022-06-17, 13:33
- AR-15/M-16 - Gary Reeder, 2022-06-16, 09:46
  - Later to be full auto or 3 round burst (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2022-06-17, 13:12
    - IC - IC, 2022-06-17, 13:58
      - thanks for that. I am not that familiar with the - Gary Reeder, 2022-06-17, 21:42
        My m16 was made by the transmission division of GM. - Winnturner48, 2022-06-18, 13:18
        You always were sorta shiftless anyway. (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2022-06-19, 16:28
        You know me too well. (nm) - Winnturner48, 2022-06-20, 19:47