Shear_stress
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Let's see. Colt was selling AR-15s to civilians starting in the mid-60s at least. They continued to sell them throughout the 70s and 80s. They sold so well that new companies started to produce them, such as DPMS and Bushmaster. ARs sales were strong both during and after the AWB in '94-2004. Today, more and companies make them every year it seems including mainstream "hunting rifle" firms like Ruger and Remington.
Yea, ARs are a fad just like the Internet and cell phones.
Here's my Colt SP1 from 1968. Thank goodness that whole AR thing went the way of the Nehru jacket and the Johnson Administration.