On the Range With the Optic-Ready Anderson AM15 Sniper Rifle

By Jay Langston

If the history of various companies that have been called “Colt” over the past century and a half is any kind of business barometer, receiving a U.S. Government military contract seems to be a terminal disease. Receiving and then losing a military contract, and the accompanying manufacturing buildup and decline, is a recipe for bankruptcy. The same fate befell Remington at the close of the Civil War. On the other hand, a study of Anderson Manufacturing, a comparative newcomer to the AR-pattern rifle market, seems to be a recipe for success.

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