Official Armalite AR-10 Lower Receivers | AR-10A | AR-10B
Armalite AR-10 Lower Receivers!
Armalite AR-10 Series “A” Lower Receivers can utilize Magpul LR 308 PMAG Magazines as well as other DPMS LR-308 compatible magazines!
Armalite AR-10 Series “B” Lower Receivers utilize Armalite proprietary magazines originally derived from M14 magazines!
As if the 308 AR versus AR-10® platform debate isn’t confusing enough Armalite brings confusion to their own platform. Armalite AR-10 lowers are available in two styles. The original AR-10 A series and the AR-10 B series.
Why does Armalite offer two different AR-10 lowers? Original Armalite “waffle” magazines are actually the basis of DPMS LR-308 and KAC SR-25 magazines. During the 1994 Bill Clinton Assault Weapon Armalite decided to switch designs to the modified M14 magazines to ensure customers would have an ample supply of 308 magazines.
Armalite AR-10 Lowers
Armalite AR-10 lowers will not win any beauty contests but when you buy authentic AR 10 lowers you are buying battle tested hardware that has withstood the test of time. That’s more than most other 308 AR manufacturers can say. The Armalite AR-10 is the real deal.
Official Armalite AR-10 Lower Receivers
AR-10 is the registered trademark owned by Armalite to prove it. No other firearm is an AR-10 no other manufacturers weapon should be referred to as an AR-10. Armalite is the only AR-10® period. Referring to any other brand 308 AR as an AR-10 only adds to the confusion of the platforms
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While the AR-10 platform is unique, a one of a kind, and the LR-308 is DPMS, the two are distinctively different. Yet companies, big or small, uses the name AR-10 without restrain, which, as you nicely put, it only confuses people like me. You also mentioned in the beginning that the AR-10 platform is solely belong to Armalite and only Armalite, What about “AR-10” name. Wouldn’t you want to clear this confusion? Couldn’t you do anything about it? Could you put together a team to sort this confusion at Shot Show?
This will never be resolved, it’s not something the industry or marketing team cares to change nor do most shooters. All we can do is educate those who want to know. You can’t imagine the hostile messages we receive disagreeing. Armalite would have needed to control this through legal means, same as the AR-15 which they did not.