During the trials, the AR-70/90 competed with a variant of H&K G41 licensed and produced domestically by Franchi and the Mod.378 VB-SR, a modified clone of the Galil SAR developed by Bernardelli. There was also intent to request Colt to submit the M16A2 to be evaluated, but legal troubles involving Renato Gamba and his company (currently Bremec S.r.l) - which was Colt's Italian representative - blocked the evaluation of M16A2. AR70/90 would win the trials and be adopted as Italian Army's standard assault rifle.