AR-15
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The AR-15 is a gas-operated and magazine-fed series of rifles Based on the original Armalite AR-15. Members of this family are the M16 assault rife, the M4 carbine and many others. The M4 carbine (and the M16 to some degree) is currently the main service rifle of the United States armed froces and it is probably the most used rifle by the modern Western Nations. The rifle was created to use the .223 Remington cartridge, with it's military relative being capable to fire the slightly more powerful 5.56×45mm NATO Round. The term “AR-15” is also used to refer to the semi-automatic and commercially available civilian version of the M4 and M16 assault rifles, these specific versions have been the focus of many controversy due to its use by ( mostly right wing) shooters. This has caused to certain groups in the United Sates to start supporting the ban of these weapons (and in some cases, to abolish the right to keep and bear arms) and the start of many theories that suggest that a certain organization plans and orchestrates these shootings in advance, to ban said weapons.
Due to its reliability, durability and the fact how common and easy is to maintain and also use. It has become one of the Chud's favorite weapons (just behind the Mauser K98k and the Luger P08), but for those same reasons, the rifle has also become pretty popular along with a certain enemy of the Chuds.
History
Originally made by Eugene Stoner, it started as a derivative of the ArmaLite AR-10 battle rifle around the year of 1959. During this time, the army was testing small calibre, high velocity rifles and then Armalite entered the competition with a scaled-down version of his AR-10 (which also featured new lightweight materials from the aircraft inudstry). But at the same time, the FairChild company was in a financial crisis, which forced the company to sell the licensing rights to the AR-15 to Colt. After the purchase, Colt began to aggressively marketing the rifle around the world, at one point they managed to get the attention of the USAF General Curtis LeMay, he loved the rifle and he ordered around 80,000 rifles along with 8.5 million rounds for the USAF.
Due to the growing popularity of the AR-15, The secretary of Defense Robert McNamara who was a former executive at the Ford Motor Company) concluded in early 1963 that the AR-15 was the superior than the currently used M14 Battle Rifle. After some modifications, in 1964 the M16 saw the light of day.
Use by the 'arty
- During the First Soyvil War, the Norwegian, Arabic and Frog troops were supplied with many types of weapons, but the most popular were the Colt Canada C7 rifle and C8 carbine. At the beginning of hostilities, the Norwegian coalition forces were superior in weaponry to the Swedish forces. But after a few weeks of fighting, the Swedish forces managed to obtain air superiority, along with the moral superiority. The conflict ended with the Oslo Poop Treaty. Both sides claimed victory, but it is currently considered that the conflict ended with a Swedish win.
- During the infamous Fourth Soyvil War, almost all sides used at least some variant of the AR-15. One of those was the Pro-Froodists forces, which initially used the M4 Carbines, but they were later replaced with the French FAMAS rifle and the SCAR-L<ref>OMG, just like Fortnite!!!/ref>. Another force that used the rifle were the Anti-Froot Rebels (mainly by the jartycucks), the infamous 8th Jarty grenadier "Lute" Division used their M16a4 rifles in many guerrilla raids inside the sharty.
- During The /nate/ War, the AGC forces used M4 carbines as their main rifle. Meanwhile, the gooner units doesn't used firearms at all, mosty relying on throwing their cumjars filled with Lord knows what to their enemies.
