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The AR-16 is a prototype selective fire gas-operated rifle in 7.62x51mm NATO designed by Eugene Stoner at ArmaLite in the late 1950s. While the AR-16 never was adopted as a service rifle by any nation its main claim to fame was that in scaled-down form it served as the basis for the more widely known 5.56mm AR-18 itself an influence on later designs. Despite the similarity in nomenclature and while it is an ArmaLite design like the AR-15/M16 it is a very different weapon.