Some cool AR history

[shepp]

http://www.guns.com/2014/03/20/armalite-ar18-rifles-eugene-stoners-redheaded-stepchild-love-redheads/

[unforgiven]

Very cool.Blast from the past.

[Rsquared]

Did you all catch the name "Armalite" and "Stoner" in that article? <laughs>

[shepp]

Yea, bet you had a hard on the whole time didn't ya :)

Edited March 21, 2014 by shepp

[survivalshop]

That's some interesting stuff there . "The Killing of America " video , is one I don't remember , but I was over sea's at that time . The IRA photo's were interesting.

Edited March 21, 2014 by survivalshop

[392heminut]

A friend of mine had an AR-180 made by Sterling for a long time, until his stepson stole it. The statement in the article that AR-15 mags won't work in the rifle is not true, they just need a slight modification to work. If you look at the bottom photo in the article you can see a slot in the right side of the magazines that isn't present on the AR-15 mags. That is the only difference, it's where the AR-180 mag catch engages. My friend had a small aluminum jig that he layed on the AR-15 mags and used a Dremel tool to cut that slot in the AR-15 mags. Most of the mags he had for his AR-180 were modified AR-15 mags.

[planeflyer21]

Ssooo…you mean Stoner had the piston-AR built back in the 1960s?  Oh the course of history.