Comments on: Father of all ARs — The Original Full-Auto AR-10

By: Audric Austyn

Audric Austyn — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 07:40:39 +0000

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By: Mike J

Mike J — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:35:40 +0000

Anyone know where I can get a lower for one of these? I know there was a company that made replacement lowers at one time, that were semi-auto but they only made around 2000 of them. I have a Armalite that needs one due to the lower receiver being cut in half. Any leads will be greatly appreciated.

By: Gene D

Gene D — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:06:43 +0000

How great it would have been , if the know-nothing politicians had kept their greedy little fingers off the AR-10 , and we would have had this weapon in the “Nam” , instead of that POS they stuck us with . Maybe there wouldn’t be 60,000 names on a “Wall” in the District of Corruption !

By: Matt_in_Co

Matt_in_Co — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 02:21:34 +0000

“This AR-10 is the direct ancestor of the AR-15, M16″.
Huh, I always thought the AR-10 came first.

Editor: The Ancestor does come first. You may be thinking of descendent.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:02:59 +0000

That is a great looking battle rifle.

I’ll bet that was pretty snappy during select-fire at 7lbs.

Just great.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:09:05 +0000

Nice!

By: Dennis Santiago

Dennis Santiago — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:50:56 +0000

Licensed Armalite AR-10’s went into service in other parts of the world and did quite well. They were never found in the abundance of the FAL or G3.

As to the forward assist, superfluous at it may be, I still hit it reflexively every time I close the bolt a Matty Mattel.

I’ll also take the closed top receiver of the charging handle AR’s. I do not like a cloud balls of gas in my face while firing. Beads of silicon seal have given way to gas diverter charging handles for me.

Some things are good changes.

By: Laurie Holland

Laurie Holland — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:22:02 +0000

We got a fair number of Dutch (Artillerie Einrichtigen) manufactured AR-10s into the UK in he 1980s. ‘Ours’ were semi-auto – not sure if they’d been made as such or been modified before sale by locking out the full-auto option. They sold quite cheaply here – £200 in ‘mint condition’ against £250 for a well-used FN FAL or £350 for an unissued FN Manufactured Bundeswehr G1 (FAL) with walnut furniture, and then M14s at £350-450. We got them fairly cheap because the UK allowed any semi-autos included selective fire designs and those modified from true selective operation at the time while the US BAFT classed them as machine-guns because of the original set-up. (M14 was the same – we could buy the ones banned to US civilians.) The 1988 Hungerford massacre with an AK changed all that and they were banned from 1st April 1989. I saw one in use on a range in north England over the winter of 88/89, the owner getting his last few outings in before either exporting the rifle / having it permanently ‘deactivated’ or handing it in to a police station. He was very angry, not too surprising. I had a good look at his AR-10 and he field stripped it for me. Foolishly, I turned the chance of a few shots (at 600 yards) down – a mistake I’ve regretted ever since. If he handed it over to the police in 1989 (as most semi-auto owners did) it was almost certainly destroyed – a sinful waste of a rare and historic artifact.