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original Armalite AR-10 promotional video
15 years 7 months ago #1475
by crux
Replied by crux on topic Re:original Armalite AR-10 promotional video
Well, the stoner patent should have expired in the 80s (how Eagle Arms got into the AR-10/15 business back then), So it's a question of how much money it would take to entice an NFA weapon manufacturer to revisit the design and build from scratch. Since very few could actually qualify to buy them (dealer / manufacturer's license for class III) and of those few would likely be interested, it would probably only come about as a labor of love to recreate this curiosity by an existing manufacturer, for their own amusement.
Seeings how an NFA M-60 is running more than $30,000 last I knew, I'd suspect a custom build of one of these would run well more than that. Still, there's just something amusing about the idea of someone at the old Armalite devision saying, "Hey, let's make one of these new battle rifles into a belt fed gun". Ah, Engineers run amok. The story of how this thing came about in the first place as a design would be interesting I think. Was it something that was asked for in the competition (doubt it), or was it something someone said "Let's spend some R&D and show the Army what else you could do with this general design, maybe it will give us a better chance of winning" or who knows. I certainly think you'd be hard pressed to do this with the M14 design
Seeings how an NFA M-60 is running more than $30,000 last I knew, I'd suspect a custom build of one of these would run well more than that. Still, there's just something amusing about the idea of someone at the old Armalite devision saying, "Hey, let's make one of these new battle rifles into a belt fed gun". Ah, Engineers run amok. The story of how this thing came about in the first place as a design would be interesting I think. Was it something that was asked for in the competition (doubt it), or was it something someone said "Let's spend some R&D and show the Army what else you could do with this general design, maybe it will give us a better chance of winning" or who knows. I certainly think you'd be hard pressed to do this with the M14 design
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