Possibility of a Norinco AR180b

I doubt they would go for it but it's worth asking. Metal lower receiver would be a real bonus. CanAm seems pretty receptive to suggestions & I think blueprints are available online so it wouldn't have to start from scratch. I guess we can hope.
 
Well I dunno...

I had an Armalite 180b and it was craptastic... I can't imagine how much worse it could be if made by Norinco
 
Since it's NR here in Canada, and Norinco already makes a Canadian-legal AR (and can't sell sh!t in the biggest market in the world, the US) they might just do it. If they can keep the price near their AR price, I don't think they'd have any trouble at ALL selling AR180B-type rifles in Canada. Maybe call it an M-180?
 
hbean said:
Not very likely, they won't be able to sell enough to recoup their setup cost.
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Depends. If it was machine from aluminum it would be far more cost effective than making it stamped steel which is extremely expensive.

However this topic has been beaten to death before.
 
Would likely be called a prohib unless virtually identical to the Armalite AR180b, the original AR180/AR18 is a named prohib... The AR180b going unrestricted in the first place is pretty amazing given that the uppers interchange.

Perhaps best to leave sleeping dogs lie on this one and pursue a less controversial project, an original semi AR10 gets my vote.
 
Leonidas said:
Would likely be called a prohib unless virtually identical to the Armalite AR180b, the original AR180/AR18 is a named prohib... The AR180b going unrestricted in the first place is pretty amazing given that the uppers interchange.

Perhaps best to leave sleeping dogs lie on this one and pursue a less controversial project, an original semi AR10 gets my vote.
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And for the last time the non restricted AR10's made for KLM by Artillerie Inrich-Ingen around 1959 do not exist........anymore. I have done extensive research on it and the FRT was appears to have been changed to restricted after the three that were in the country left the country to a collector.
 
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man,..some ones missing the boat Big Time on this rifle. Who wouldn't buy one. Any manufacturer who starts selling these will be Win, Win. These would sell as good as the Ruger Mini.!! I would buy now right now.
 
shredder said:
Since it's NR here in Canada... I don't think they'd have any trouble at ALL selling AR180B-type rifles in Canada.
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Honestly... I think you could glue two bison turds together and people would buy it just because it was NR...
 
I wonder what the market numbers were for this rifle when they were sold openly for several years? If my memory serves they didn't sell strongly, at least not what is being alluded to in this thread. I believe those soft sales numbers are keeping new production off the table.
 
If it properly takes standard ar-15 magazines, and ar-15 furniture, has a proper top-rail, and maybe a proper ar-15 railed fore-end, this would be interesting.
 
IF the cheap polymer hinge is replaced with real metal,
and if the stupid proprietary long thin triangular scope mounting plate is replaced with a pic rail,
and if said pic rail is properly attached, NOT spot welded on,
then we might have something here.
 
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