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2024-10-23 16:15:51 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING
The AR-15 was being sold on the civilian market in the 1980's by Connecticut-based Colt Manufacturing LLC. Colt bought the patents from Armalite (for which the AR-15 is named) decades earlier. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-bushmaster-made-ar-15-into-best-selling-rifle-us#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%2C%20Connecticut%2Dbased,Armalite%20developed%20for%20the%20military.)
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- The AR-15 was being sold on the civilian market in the 1980's by Connecticut-based Colt Manufacturing LLC. Colt bought the patents from Armalite (for which the AR-15 is named) decades earlier. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-bushmaster-made-ar-15-into-best-selling-rifle-us#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%2C%20Connecticut%2Dbased,Armalite%20developed%20for%20the%20military.)
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