Today is remembered as the birthday of the late Eugene M.
Stoner. (Born 1922, died April 24, 1997.) He was the designer of the
AR-7, AR-10, AR-15, AR-180, the Stoner 63, and several other firearms.
(The AR-10 was the basis of the AR-15 which in turn spawned the very
widely used M16 and all of its variants including the M4 Carbine). It
has been estimated that as many as 3.7 million rifles from the AR-15
family are owned by civilians in the United States, and military
production M16 variants well exceeds 8 million rifles.
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