{"id":15893,"date":"2016-06-02T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:44:39","slug":"know-your-weapons-the-armalite-ar-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/02\/know-your-weapons-the-armalite-ar-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: The Armalite AR-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15894\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/ar-10.png?w=620\" alt=\"AR-10\" width=\"620\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"5efb\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">In 1955, the small Californian firearms company ArmaLite unveiled one of the most defining and influential rifles of the 20th century\u200a\u2014\u200athe <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalfirearms.info\/tagged\/ar10\">AR-10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4ac2\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">The hard-hitting rifle would see extensive service in bitter colonial conflicts and provide the basis for the <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalfirearms.info\/tagged\/M16\">M-16<\/a>, one of the most iconic rifles of all time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"d768\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">But despite its importance there has been a kind of literary gap in our understanding of the AR-10. Joseph Putnam Evan\u2019s new book <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1UfvP0u\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">The Armalite AR-10\u200a\u2014\u200aThe World\u2019s Finest Battle Rifle<\/em><\/a>, out now from Collector Grade, aims to fill in the historical holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\"><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1UfvP0u\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">The Armalite AR-10\u200a\u2014\u200aThe World\u2019s Finest Battle Rifle<\/em><\/a> surveys all of Armalite\u2019s early designs, from the AR-1 to the AR-5 survival rifle and the AR-9 shotgun and finally the AR-10. The accompanying color photographs are excellent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">Evans begins by introducing the main cast of characters who were pivotal in the AR-10&#8217;s development. We meet brothers-in-law George Sullivan and Charles Dorchester, who in 1952 were working on the Para-Sniper, which would eventually become the AR-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/warisboring.com\/j-putnam-evans-thinks-the-ar-10-is-the-worlds-best-battle-rifle-212710d5d2b2?mc_cid=828d59b8f5&amp;mc_eid=1149a36069#.dpnj23a3n\">War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"1fed\" class=\"graf--figure graf-after--p\">\n<div class=\"aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"a03a\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1955, the small Californian firearms company ArmaLite unveiled one of the most defining and influential rifles of the 20th century\u200a\u2014\u200athe AR-10. The hard-hitting rifle would see extensive service in bitter colonial conflicts and provide the basis for the M-16, one of the most iconic rifles of all time. But despite its importance there has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6135,1286,24],"tags":[12020,12021,3913],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}