Ruger’s AR-15 variant, the AR-556, comes with a suggested retail price of $849 and weighs 6.5 pounds. Colt owns the trademark for the AR-15, but hundreds of companies have produced their own ...

The earliest Colt-production AR-15 was known as the Model 601 ... that represented the variants available during the Vietnam War, and two .308 AR-10s. The BRN-601 is a pretty close replica ...

The Washington Post and NPR trace the history of the modern AR-15 back to the 1950s, when its original manufacturer ArmaLite (now Colt ... generic name for many variants created by a variety ...

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 ...

It refers to the AR-15 variants as a “modern sports shooting rifle.” “They’re popular for home defense, recreational target shooting and hunting,” the foundation website says.

AR-15-style rifles ... firearms manufacturer Colt. But since the patent on the weapon's operating system ran out, a host of other manufacturers began making their own variants of the popular ...

It refers to the AR-15 variants as a “modern sports shooting rifle.” “They’re popular for home defense, recreational target shooting and hunting,” the foundation website says.

Colt's patent for the AR-15 expired in 1977 ... Detractors of the AR-15 often point to the use of the rifle and similar variants during mass shootings across the US. One set of statistics ...

Direct variants like the M16 rifle and M4 carbine ... After ArmaLite sold the AR-15 rights to Colt in 1959, the rifle secured ...

The judge’s ruling was limited in scope — it applies only to one type of firearm, the Colt AR-15, and allows “for use of self-defense within the home.” It marks the latest clawback of New ...