| Type | Manufacturer |
|---|---|
| Industry | Firearms |
| Founded | 2001 in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA. |
| Founder | John Noveske |
| Website | noveske |
Noveske Rifleworks is a high end American firearms company. They are headquartered in Grants Pass, Oregon and are known for their work with the AR-15 platform [1] and the KeyMod system.
Noveske Rifleworks was founded in 2001 by John Noveske. [2] They are highly regarded with a strong reputation. [3]
They are based in Grants Pass, Oregon. Their slogan is “the All-American Badass Rifle Company.” [4]
In 2012 Noveske introduced KeyMod, a new system for attaching weapons accessories which soon became an industry and military standard. [5]
In 2013 John Noveske died in a car accident. [6] Noveske's death spawned a number of conspiracy theories. [7]
The company was restructured after Noveske's death, in 2014 Tim Dillon took over as president and chief executive officer. [2]
A Noveske N4 was one of the weapons used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. [8]
In 2019 Noveske was one of ten companies selected by the US Army to present a subcompact weapon for evaluation under the Project Manager Soldier Weapons program, Noveske presented the Noveske subcompact weapon. [9]
In 2019 Noveske introduced a water gun styled after their AR pattern rifles. [10] It was produced in collaboration with lifestyle brand URT Inc. [1]
In 2019 Noveske released their fourth generation of AR platform rifles. [11]
Between 2007 and 2020 Noveske was awarded US military contracts worth nearly $4.9 million. [3]
In the 2010 film The Expendables some of the characters wield Noveske N4s. [15]
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Personal defense weapons (PDWs) are a class of compact, magazine-fed, submachine gun-like automatic firearms designed to fire rifle-like cartridges. Most PDWs fire a small-caliber, high-velocity centerfire bottleneck cartridge resembling a scaled-down intermediate cartridge, essentially making them an "in-between" hybrid between a submachine gun and a carbine.
The ArmaLite AR-15 is a select-fire, gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed rifle manufactured in the United States between 1959 and 1964. Designed by American gun manufacturer ArmaLite in 1956, it was based on its AR-10 rifle. The ArmaLite AR-15 was designed to be a lightweight rifle and to fire a new high-velocity, lightweight, small-caliber cartridge to allow infantrymen to carry more ammunition.
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Eugene Morrison Stoner was an American machinist and firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was redesigned and modified by Colt's Patent Firearm Company for the United States military as the M16 rifle.
The two most common assault rifles in the world are the Soviet AK-47 and the American M16. These Cold War-era rifles have been used in conflicts both large and small since the 1960s. They are used by military, police, security forces, revolutionaries, terrorists, criminals and civilians alike and will most likely continue to be used for decades to come. As a result, they have been the subject of countless comparisons and endless debate.
An AR-15–style rifle is any lightweight semi-automatic rifle based on or similar to the Colt AR-15 design. The Colt model removed the selective fire feature of its predecessor, the original ArmaLite AR-15, itself a scaled-down derivative of the AR-10 design by Eugene Stoner.
The CAR-15 XM177 or CAR-15 Commando was a part of the CAR-15 Military Weapons System designed in 1966 in response to the US military's desire for a compact M16 variant to improve on the inadequacies of earlier shortened M16 types.
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