Died 1997-04-24.
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Eugene Stoner
Eugene Morrison Stoner was an American machinist and firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was redesigned and modified by Colt's Patent Firearm Company for the United States military as the M16A1 rifle.
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business · American firearms designer (1922–1997) · inventor · entrepreneur · firearms designer · also Eugene Stoner, Eugene Morrison Stoner, Stoner
Born 22 November 1922 · Died 24 April 1997 · Q558764
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1997· 2 entries
And was interred in the Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Virginia
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1990· 2 entries
Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 and its derivatives, met for the first time
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Joined Knight's Armament Company (KAC) to create the Stoner Rifle-25 (SR-25), which currently sees military service as the United States Navy Mark 11 Mod 0 Sniper Weapon System
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1972· 1 entry
But left the company in 1989, after designing the Ares Light Machine Gun, sometimes known as the Stoner 86
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1956· 1 entry
By ArmaLite for use in the AR-10, which was later developed into the ArmaLite AR-15, M16 rifle and M4 carbine
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1955· 1 entry
Stoner completed initial design work on the revolutionary ArmaLite AR-10, a lightweight (3
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1954· 1 entry
Came to work as chief engineer for ArmaLite, a division of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation
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1939· 1 entry
After the Depression, there was not enough money for him to attend college, so he went to work as a machinist for Vega Aircraft Company, the forerunner of what became Lockheed Airplane Company (now the Lockheed Martin Co
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-11-22.
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