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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who designed the M-16? What was it originally called?

1. https://www.armalite.com/history/
[i]"Army officials asked Armalite to develop a smaller version of the AR-10 in 1956 as a potential replacement for the M1 Garand. The ensuing rifle was called the AR-15."[/i] (and then it was sold to Colt)

2. https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-complete-history-of-the-ar-15-rifle
[i][u]1961: Eugene Stoner Becomes a Consultant at Colt[/u]
At this time, Eugene Stoner leaves the ArmaLite company, taking a position as a consultant at Colt. Around the same time, the United States Airforce tests the AR-15, commissioning 8,500 for Air Force use.

[u]1963: The M-16 is Born[/u]
[b]With the AR-15 in the hands of the Air Force, a standard model of the rifle is born.[/b] They dub it the M-16, the most famous service weapon of the United States Military.

General Curtis LeMay saw a demonstration of the AR-15 in 1960. Impressed by the prowess of this new firearm, when General LeMay became the Air Force Chief of Staff in the Summer of 1961, he placed 80,000 AR-15's on order for the U.S. Air Force.

In 1961, ten AR-15's were sent to South Vietnam, as the United States continued to penetrate into the jungles of Indochina.

[u]1989: Production of the First AR-15's for Civilians Begins[/u]
With the AR-15 patents long expired, Jim Glazier and Karl Lewis started manufacturing the first civilian versions of the AR-15. These opened AR-15's up to the civilian market from the year 1989 to 1994. [/i]
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The rifle designed by Stoner and designated by Armalite as the AR-15 was a fully automatic, select fire, machine gun. The same gun when designated by the military remained a fully automatic, select fire, machine gun. The guns marketed to "civilians" as "AR-15's" are not, and never have been, fully automatic, select fire, or machine guns. Indeed, they are specifically designed to prevent conversion to automatic fire. Cosmetics and marketing nomenclature do not make a sporting rifle a military weapon. [/quote]

Right. There were various design changes and name changes over the years.

The PP incorrectly stated that "the AR-15 is not a military weapon and has never been used as a military weapon by any military." The predecessor to the AR-15 (also called an AR-15) was designed as a military weapon and was used by the military. Only a few small design changes took it from automatic to semi-automatic, but still has the legacy (and name) of a military weapon.

Same as the Bushmaster ACR vs. Remington ACR. Close enough to give the military "cred" to rifles available to civilians.

Marketing civilian guns as "military-born, forged by the battlefield": 
https://fnamerica.com/rifles/home-defense/

Military or civilian? 
[img]https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-14-at-4.47.56-PM.png[/img]

The fuzzy line between civilian vs. military models naming and marketing is intentional. If you have an issue with it, take it up with the gun manufacturers.
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