{"id":63747,"date":"2016-10-03T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=63747"},"modified":"2016-10-03T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T06:11:12","slug":"6-pound-sub-moa-999-5-56mm-ar-full-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/6-pound-sub-moa-999-5-56mm-ar-full-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A 6-pound, sub-MOA, $999 5.56mm AR?\u2014Full Review."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Armalite M-15 Light Tactical Carbine, shown equipped with a Burris XTR II that the author used for accuracy testing.<\/p><\/div>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0https:\/\/armalite.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To purchase an Armalite M-15 LTC or other M-15 variant on GunsAmerica.com, click this link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/Search.aspx?T=Armalite%20M15<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on sales figures and some good, old-fashioned SWAG math, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million AR-15 rifles floating around the country, give or take a couple of million. And guess where all that AR popularity started? Armalite. That\u2019s right, the “AR” in AR-15 AR doesn\u2019t stand for Assault Rifle, Apocalyptic Rampage, or even Alpaca Rabies. Instead, the letters \u201cAR\u201d represent an abbreviation the original company\u2019s name. Let\u2019s take a quick look at how we got to the subject of today\u2019s rifle review, the Armalite M-15 Light Tactical Carbine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

History<\/h2>\n

It all started back in 1952, or 1954 if you count from the production date of the AR-1 7.62x51mm Parasniper rifle. Even back then, light and handy was the design goal of the day \u2013 that rifle had an anodized aluminum barrel with a steel sleeve. One of the founders, Eugene Stoner, had a big bee in his bonnet about the possibilities of using space-age materials like polymer and aluminum to make rifles lighter without sacrificing durability and performance.<\/p>\n

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The M-15 has everything you’d expect on an AR-15-pattern service rifle, forward-assist included.<\/p><\/div>\n

The AR-1 was followed by the AR-5 .22 Hornet Survival Rifle, adopted by the Air Force as the MA-1 Survival Rifle. In the late 1950s, Armalite worked on the AR-10 in 7.62x51mm. Army officials asked for a smaller version of that rifle as a potential replacement for the M1 Garand, and the AR-15 was born.<\/p>\n

In 1959, the rights to the AR-15 designs were sold to Colt’s Manufacturing, who assumed responsibility for the manufacture and sale of the AR-15 design to the U.S. Military and others. Over the next 30-some years, things got a little confusing as the Armalite brand passed through Elisco Tool Manufacturing Company and later Eagle Arms. The final resolution came about in 2013 when Strategic Armory Corps<\/a> (SAC) purchased Armalite, and that\u2019s the company you know today. Just to keep the big picture straight, SAC also owns OWC (suppressors), Surgeon Rifles, Nexus Ammunition, and McMillan Firearms. The bottom line is that Armalite is back and in the business of producing AR-type rifles, bolt-action guns, specialty weapons like integrally suppressed rifles and pistols, and a slew of other stuff.<\/p>\n

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The rifles comes with a standard birdcage flash hider\/compensator timed with a compression washer. If you want to change muzzle devices, the thread pattern is standard 1\/2×28.<\/p><\/div>\n

Specs<\/h2>\n