Colt 601: The AR 15 Becomes a Military Rifle

Cool Forgotten Weapons merch The AR15 rifle was originally developed by Armalite as an offshoot of the AR10 rifle designed by Eugene Stoner. How that secondthought rifle became the US standard military rifle and the longestserving infantry rifle in US military history is a winding story. From Armalite s sale fo the design to Colt to sales trips to India and the Philippines to an Air Force general s birthday