The AR-15 rifle, or ArmaLite Rifle-15 ... The use of the NATO STANAG magazines is in contrast to Ruger’s older Mini-14 and Mini-30 rifles, which use proprietary, relatively expensive Ruger ...

Jonathan Levinson / OPB And Bush said this obsession with how the gun looks is most obvious when comparing the AR-15 to another gun: the Mini-14. That's also a semi-automatic rifle, but it has a ...

The original AR-15 weapon was adopted by the U.S. military in the mid-1960s as the M16 assault rifle.The M16 fired 5.56-millimeter ammunition and used the direct impingement gas operating system ...

6. It’s said Bill Ruger felt that, with better timing, the Mini-14 would have been the military’s choice as a successor to the M14. As we all know, history favored the AR-15 design that Colt ...

I started by looking into AR-15 and AK-47 rifles ... goods store where I was working suggested I take a look at the Mini-14 Ranch Rifle. Even though it shot the same 5.56 NATO/.

Semiautomatic versions of the AR-15 were used by sympathizers of the Islamic State in San Bernardino, Calif., in 2015, and by gunmen in school attacks; a Mini-14 and an MCX, rifles that fire the ...

Although greatly overshadowed in popularity by the AR-15 today, the Mini-14 was the go-to modern sporting rifle of its time. There's just something special about tactical 80's era kit. The AC-556 ...