Hmmmmm . . . I tried googling 'AR-1`4' and Google showed me pictures
purporting to be 'assault rifles' . . Digging deeper I found this . ..
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http://www.northwestfirearms.com/threads/ar-14-rifle.83488/
Ok, so I have a friend who was in the Air Force in the late 60's. He remembers shooting an AR-14 Rifle. I have never heard of this and my "google" research goes straight to AR-15/M16 rifles however he distictly remembers the designation AR-14.
It is possible if he was in a "special" group, he may have fired the Stoner Weapons System. It was not adopted due to some political considerations, but some units in Vietnam used it. I believe they were made in 2 different versions, but then I was in a Looooong time ago and I could be mistaken. Google Stoner weapon systems.
armalite stoner platform AR-14 burst fire and full auto
The AR-14 to the best of my knowledge was Stoner's predecessor to the AR-15..?
Gotta pull some disc's and look... & found something - upper right hand foto.
Armalite Techs making adjustment on the AR-14 the experimental predecessor to the AR15.
The AR-14 was the military stepping-stone of the M-14 to the M-16 in the 50's in the early Vietnam War period. Designers were looking for ways to lighten the load of soldiers going to battle, fast turnarounds and easier to mass-produce than wood-stock rifles. At the time the M-16 came out, it was a lot better-handling than the AR-14. And so the short-story goes....
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Zim : Much from the threads was skipped. One claimed it was the weapon
of choice for the 'Republic of Surea Armed Forces' - which turned out to
be an imaginary fantasy game country.
But it does look like there was, once upon a time, an AR-14. Which
probably developed into the AR-15 and M-16 rifles.
Not that anybody with half a brain would mention it politically.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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