Designated Colt AR-15 Sporter, it is made for semi-automatic use only, its magazine has a removable spacer which limits capacity to 5 rounds, and its bolt carrier assembly has a Parco-Lubrite finish. The November 1964 issue of American Rifleman reported, “A semi-automatic model of the Colt AR-15 cal.223 (5.56 mm.) automatic rifle is now offered by Colt’s. When this happened, Colt had already begun selling semi-automatic AR-15s to U.S. It would become the iconic gun of the Vietnam War. Soon the similar looking but very different full-auto military version of the AR-15 was dubbed the M16. military ceased production of the semi-automatic M14. military finally ordered 85,000 AR-15s for the Army and 19,000 for the Air Force. On July 1, 1964, the U.S. But today, when we think of semi-automatic rifles, the AR-15 jumps to mind the thing is, even its development and introduction isn’t popularly understood.Īfter years of development, in 1963, the U.S.
Many popular semi-automatic rifles were made for civilians in the first years of the 20th century by Remington Arms, Savage and others. The AR-15, meanwhile, was hardly the first semi-automatic rifle. To name one, the still highly regarded Model 1911 semi-automatic pistol served as the standard-issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces from 1911 to 1987, and, at the same time, was and is popular with American citizens for competition and self-defense. W hen Congress passed, and then-President Bill Clinton (D) signed, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, semi-automatic firearms had already been popularly sold to civilians for about a century.
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