Stonet and Knight are both hacks.

>>58033515 (OP)

Colt took many liberties after it hit their desk.

>>58033515 (OP)

Unironically watch Ian’s 10 year old video on it before posting here

>>58033515 (OP)

The All American is instead an example of how any good idea can be ruined by shit management and the AR15 deserves its popularity, but Stoner is still overrated. People put him on a level with Browning and thats just ridiculous.

Agreed. I think Sullivan deserves more praise than Stoner. 



Colt paraded this for a few months back in like 2009 or 2008, can’t remember, but nothing ever since.

>>58033515 (OP)

It was also a Colt product that came at a very bad time when the market was shifting, Colt needed to cover a lot of ground to catch up and management was catastrophically stupid. There's a lot that goes into making a successful high quality design, and good designers aren't the entire picture. The AA2K is a perfect example of talented people who knew what they were doing getting hamstrung and sabotaged by everything else.

>NOOOO IT WAS HECKING COLTERINO

Dumb niggers Colt cheaped out but the general design is terrible, this gun is like a piece of shit made in the 1890's but with modern materials and it works about as well as those shitty early autos.

Retard. Rotating barrel is fine, and has nothing to do with the issues the pistol had. Also, Browning style tilt barrel is about as old and also works fine - ad novitatems a shit. 

The issues the pistol did have, reliability and utterly abysmal trigger, front sight wandering, were all the result of their decisions, not of the original design. The only things you can give Colt credit for is realising that it needed a double stack magazine to compete with the other wonder 9s, and the only thing you can maybe give them an out for is the drop safety issue but even that is iffy.

Stoner had the problem of a lot of engineers I know where he believed he knew best all the time and his design was nearly perfect. He was pretty autistic about certain aspects of the gun including but not limited to the forward assist and carry handle, it wouldn't be until way later did he finally concede on both points with the advancements of optics technology but it was done begrudgingly. He didn't live long enough to see the massive boom of the aftermarket in the AR since during his later years of life only a couple of manufacturers were making aftermarket accessories for the gun such as Lone Star.



I'm sure he probably would have seen much of the current AR market as solving problems that don't exist. The AR platform is good, but it didn't come into its own really until the late 1990s and boomed especially following the expiration of the assault weapons ban.

Stoner would absolutely seethe at modern AR's he would screech particularly hard at piston guns and most certainly would consider the WWSD rifle an abomination.
