One thing I'll NEVER be convinced of is that Colt was the only player in "developing" the AR platform once it
got into wide circulation with the US military. We know that at the very start of the so called one time
buy of AR15s, Springfield Armory was already developing a whole range of supplimentary muzzle
attachments. ie. F/S and brakes. AFAIK, the only item that Colt had absolute rights to was the ArmaLite
developed gas and BCG system, by patent protection. Otherwise Stoner could have never done a lot of
the things he did a short while later, in the mid '60s. Interesting thread here, and the can of worms isn't
really even open yet!
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