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Maybe we could blame the patent system

Posted on: March 23, 2021 at 07:54:58 CT
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ArmaLite first developed the AR-15 in the late 1950s as a military rifle, but had limited success in selling it. In 1959 the company sold the design to Colt.

In 1963, the U.S. military selected Colt to manufacture the automatic rifle that soon became standard issue for U.S. troops in the Vietnam War. It was known as the M-16.

Armed with that success, Colt ramped up production of a semiautomatic version of the M-16 that it sold to law enforcement and the public, marketed as the AR-15.

When Colt's patents for the AR-15 expired in the 1970s, other manufacturers began making similar models.

Those gun makers gave the weapons their own names, yet the popularity of the AR-15 turned it into a generic term for all types of AR-15-style rifles.

These weapons can go for less than $1,000, though they can be customized and cost in the thousands of dollars.

The National Rifle Association estimates there are some eight million AR-15s and its variations in circulation, and says they are so popular that the "AR" should stand for "America's Rifle."

Edited by Ace at 07:55:09 on 03/23/21
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Maybe we could blame the patent system - Ace A - 3/23 07:54:58
     ... the right to keep and bear arms may not be infringed(nm) - DHighlander NWMSU - 3/23 08:07:07
          the right OF THE PEOPLE (nm) - pickle MU - 3/23 08:24:53
          SHALL NOT be infringed (nm) - pickle MU - 3/23 08:21:58
               stop yelling (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 3/23 08:22:52
                    lol (nm) - pickle MU - 3/23 08:23:55
          shall not be infringed. THE right. Meaning it precedes - hefeweizen MU - 3/23 08:14:42
               The Amendments follow the Establishment of Government - Ace A - 3/23 08:35:22
                    So. The rights exist whether government does or not(nm) - hefeweizen MU - 3/23 08:53:10
                         The Bill of Rights don't exist without a Constitution - Ace A - 3/23 09:05:49
                              but the rights do (nm) - ashtray UF - 3/23 09:54:30
               that's just their opinion (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 3/23 08:18:40
                    did you see this gem? - pickle MU - 3/23 08:22:38
                         gold (nm) - ashtray UF - 3/23 08:27:16
                         that whole thread was a masterpiece - SwampTiger MU - 3/23 08:24:46
                              high five (nm) - pickle MU - 3/23 08:25:36
     yes, government is to blame for most of society's ills - ashtray UF - 3/23 08:06:11
     without the patent system, they could have made them - dangertim MU - 3/23 07:59:09
          tell me how that would have worked, fake scientist man - Ace A - 3/23 08:05:20
               well, I'm the science guy, not patent guy. - dangertim MU - 3/23 08:20:27
               kinda long explanation but here... - SwampTiger MU - 3/23 08:08:54
     Might as well given so many of you wish to blame - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 3/23 07:56:36
          you asked why now, and not in the past 200 years - Ace A - 3/23 08:05:56
     Speak for yourself (nm) - MIZ45 MU - 3/23 07:56:17




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