No more AR-10's for Canada?

ESQ said:
Would it be possible to make an AR10 to the original drawings (pre-AR15) in semi auto and class it as non-restricted?
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A couple of american companies did this back in the day. Made new semi-only receivers. The problem here is that you'd need a new trigger mech as well or it would probably be considered CA. Can't use an AR-15 trigger mech or it would be considered restricted.

Someone on the board here has drawings for an AR-10 receiver, same for an AR-18 that uses AR-15 trigger mech.

Love the look of the portugeuse model.
 
Well, from what I have gathered, there were a few commercial semi-auto only models manufactured, so the design exists. It is a matter of finding the original drawings or someone with an example. I would to make one as a project.
 
Yes but they would have been made with neutered full auto parts, a no-no up here. You'd need new semi only parts.

Don't think their are many parts for these kicking around so the hardest part may actually be finding a parts kit.
 
KevinB said:
As they where owned by Gene Stoner ;)
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Kevin... aren't they part of the drawings that are up in Mr. Knight's museum/collection now? I thought I remember seeing AR-10 drawings on display there or am I confusing that with something else... there was so much there it's often hard to remember it all.

Mark
 
Leg said:
A couple of american companies did this back in the day. Made new semi-only receivers. The problem here is that you'd need a new trigger mech as well or it would probably be considered CA. Can't use an AR-15 trigger mech or it would be considered restricted.

Someone on the board here has drawings for an AR-10 receiver, same for an AR-18 that uses AR-15 trigger mech.

Love the look of the portugeuse model.
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The AR-180B uses the AR15 trigger group. It's non-restricted.
 
I contacted Armalite and was informed that the AR-10B hasn't been made for four years and plans to do so again are undecided. As to buying a AR-10, I was told to contact Wolverine. They have none.
I like the B model because of the charging handle and brown "Sudanese" style furniture. Looks like I'll need to save up for the Swiss Arms.
 
Walther_PPK said:
The AR-180B uses the AR15 trigger group. It's non-restricted.
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Yes, because the weapon is considered to be a completely different design. The RCMP consider the new style AR-10s to be based on the AR-15 and therefore restricted. In order to circumvent this kind of backward logic you'd need to use parts that aren't common to the AR-15.

Never mind the fact that the AR-10 was the basis for the AR-15 (not vice versa), or that Stoner never had a hand in the AR-15.
 
KevinB said:
I said pardon?

It was not Jim Sullivan in a vaccum.
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It is my understanding Stoner had already left Armalite before development of the AR-15 began. Obviously Sullivan based it off of Stoner's AR-10 design but I don't think that Mr. Stoner had any input into the project.

Of course this wouldn't be the first time that I've been led astray by the media if this is not the case.
 
Leg said:
It is my understanding Stoner had already left Armalite before development of the AR-15 began.
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Not true, at all. In fact, The Black Rifle notes that the first set of AR-15 rifles were personally delivered to Fort Benning by Stoner.

Now, at least one reference book I have on the subject states that since most of the work was a relatively straightforward re-dimensioning of the AR-10, that the lion's share of the work was left to Sullivan while Stoner focused on design adaptations to transform the .222 cartridge into something that would meet the SCHV ballistic goals.
 
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