It depends on the weapon. Eugene Stoner the designer of the original AR-15 designed it as a full size assault rifle , but he never got to see the gun become famous. Colt later took up the design and made it for the military it was produced as a full size assault. later the designs were made to fit in a carbine platform which is known as the M4 carbine assaultlt rifle. The M4 is the main weapon in the U.S. military.
The US Army presently uses the M4 carbine, a shorter and much modified version of the Armalite AR15.
It is the Carbine (short rifle) version of the AR15. AR stands for Armalite Rifle. It is a semi auto rifle.
It depends.. if you have a carbine length barrel and will be using it on a rifle with a carbine length barrel, then yes. If you took it from a rifle with a rifle length barrel, and are putting it on a rifle with a carbine length barrel, then it won't function properly.
To a collector of Colt oddities, it might be worth a small premium of 50-100 USD.
Don't think so: laws here say you can't have EVEN semi-auto rifles. Let along full-autos.
Some guns include: Revolvers, AK's, M16, Uzi and much more...The ar15 and the m16 did not come into use until the late 60's. The weapons used before were the m14 and the m1 and m1 carbine.
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If it is one of the recent Colt .22LR AR15 rifles, then the answer is no - they are completely different internally.
Depends on which carbine. No one carbine, no one answer.
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Yes
Colt has not offered a AR15 in 308