{"id":22304,"date":"2023-04-27T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/so-many-ar-18-derivatives-how-come-what-about-armalites-patents\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:00:21","slug":"so-many-ar-18-derivatives-how-come-what-about-armalites-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/so-many-ar-18-derivatives-how-come-what-about-armalites-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"So many AR-18 derivatives: how come? What about Armalite&#8217;s patents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyMyAAVjxwE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>From the late 70&#8217;s onwards, a number of AR-18 derivative rifles start to appear on the world markets. Given that Armalite&#8217;s patenting game around the AR-10 and AR-15 systems was so on-point, how come they didn&#8217;t have a patent preventing such things as the Steyr AUG, Enfield SA80 (L85), Sterling SAR-80, Leader T2 and others?<\/p>\n<p>Utreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/blokeontherange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/blokeontherange<\/a><br \/>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Teespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AR180 AR-180 5.56 .223<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the late 70&#8217;s onwards, a number of AR-18 derivative rifles start to appear on the world markets. Given that Armalite&#8217;s patenting game around the AR-10 and AR-15 systems was so on-point, how come they didn&#8217;t have a patent preventing such things as the Steyr AUG, Enfield SA80 (L85), Sterling SAR-80, Leader T2 and others?&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/so-many-ar-18-derivatives-how-come-what-about-armalites-patents\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So many AR-18 derivatives: how come? What about Armalite&#8217;s patents?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":22305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}