Colt SP1 AR-15 Rifle
1971 Colt SP1 AR-15, full left-side profile. Photo property of Eisel Armory. The Colt SP1 was the AR-15 that brought Eugene Stoner’s rifle design to American civilian gun owners. Colt introduced the commercial SP1 in spring 1964 (Model R6000 / AR-15 Sporter), chambered in .223 Remington, as the semi-automatic commercial counterpart to the M16 the […]
Soviet SVT-40 Tokarev Rifle
A Wartime Sprint Toward Semi-Automatic Firepower Right side profile of a Tula Arsenal-produced SVT-40 Tokarev rifle, chambered in 7.62x54R. Photo property of Eisel Armory. The SVT-40 (Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva — “Tokarev self-loading rifle, model 1940”) was adopted by the Soviet Union in 1940 as its intended principal self-loading service rifle, chambered in the same 7.62x54R […]