Welcome to right this moment’s Photo of the Day! Here we’ve a shotgun that was supposed to alter every thing. It was marketed because the “golden gun” since its aluminum had a gold hue to it. I after all am speaking concerning the Armalite AR17 semiautomatic shotgun. The Armalite AR17 is fascinating as a result of it was imagined to be the subsequent residence run to return out of Armalite after the AR10 and AR15. It was touted because the lightest shotgun on the market and in some ways, it was since total it weighed round 5 kilos. Given its light-weight, it was marketed for each hunters and aggressive shooters alike. It had a two-round capability and an adjustable choke system. These weapons had a brief unlucky manufacturing run. They didn’t blow up or have recollects or something traumatic like that however they had been disliked in a short time. This primarily has to do with three massive causes. One, it kicked…rather a lot. It was mild so it was plain and easily recoiled an uncomfortable quantity. The second motive is that the loading course of was cumbersome at greatest. The third is that the gun was so mild that it was exhausting to comply with by within the swing at a flying goal. These had been created from 1964 to 1965 with solely 1200 constructed and bought.
Manufacturer: Armalite Inc
Model: Ar 17
Type: Shotgun
Gauge: 12
Barrel: 22 inch spherical
Finish: gold anodized
Stock: plastic
Lot 106: Scarce Armalite Ar-17 Semi-Automatic Shotgun. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved November 16, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/2056/106/scarce-armalite-ar17-semiautomatic-shotgun
