Complete AR-15/M16 Sourcebook: What Every Shooter Needs to Know

Interesting. Gives you all the history about the development of the AR, which is pretty darn interesting. You'll find out why Armalite, the inventor of the AR-15, never made any serious money with the design and Colt did. At times, the history portion of this book is interesting enough to be a novel: Armalite invents cool gun, Armalite can't capitalize on it for one reason or another... SEEMingly due to no fault of their own.The part about variations of the weapons system would be interesting to collectors, I suppose. I skipped it.The brief sections about tear-down and cleaning are just that.Overall, a reasonably good book for any new AR enthusiast.

i had this shipped from amazon.com to manila, and totally loved it. there are so much variants of the M16/AR15 and it gets really hard to keep track of all . this guide tells you the make ,where to find it, who has it, and when it was made. i also learned so much from this book regarding the "markings" of an M16 and what makes yours special. i am a true loveer of the M16 rifle, and am very proud to own this book. now, i have learned many things which i haven't had the slightest idea of, before i bought this book! this truly is a good buy, if you want to authenticate, modify, and just plainly admore your M16 rifle

A very thorough book on the AR family of firearms. A little dated, though. Many current makers are not represented and it could use an appendix to cover these. Some issues like the "danger of excessive headspace" are a little overdone but few people ever read Hatcher's Notebook to learn the truth about headspace.

Once I received this book, I had to flick thru it.......I couldn't put it down. There was so much stuff that I didn't know and even somethings I did, but didn't think they'd be in here.......they were. WOW great book for EVERY GUN OWNER AND ESPECIALLY AR-15, AR-10 AND AR's OWNERS in general. Yes. I highly recommend this book.

This is a good book but a bad manual. It has a great history of M16s and a bit of bias about how great they are. I was disappointed at the lack of technical information in the book as I was looking for a bit more detail on the specifics of parts and internal upgrade options.

No argument, this has to be the most complete book on the AR15 ever.

If you are interested in a long detailed history of the rifle and the grenade launcher variant, then you will like this book, as about 200 of 300 pages are devoted to these topics. If you are interested in care, maintenance and accessories, look elsewhere.

Nice history and overview of the rifles development, but weak on assembly instruction, maintenance, cleaning etc. A nice historical reference book really.

As the title implies, this is a very comprehensive look at AR-15/M16 history and design.Plenty of detail on how this conventional platform came to be the giant it is today and should be prerequisite to owning one. Having the ability to look almost any information up on the Web, it was refreshing to see a text such as this.Go buy it.