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A recurring theme in small arms development is the production line for the gun that's getting long in the tooth is long gone.
At about the same time as project AGILE was running with early AR-15 R601's a couple of the supporting Special Forces guys said that it really didn't offer a big improvement over the M2 carbine.
OK.
Let's make more M2s then!
Where'd the tooling go?
Inland went back to making car parts.
Underwood went back to making typewriters.
Rock-O-La went back to making juke boxes.
Quality Hardware went back to making tooling.
National Postal Meter went back to making postal scales.
Standard Products went back to making car parts.
Saginaw went back to making car parts.
IBM went back to making office equipment.
Only Winchester kept making guns and they returned to their pre-war commercial catalog and had five years of pent-up demand to satisfy.
There wasn't an M1/M2 production line left in 1964.
Colt, on the other hand, had production capacity available and was, not only, tooled up to make the AR-15, but was actively trying to get someone to buy them in quantity.
The rest is history.
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