Colt AR-15 Sporter, Viet Nam Tribute
Official wording
Colt, AR-15 Sporter "The Viet Nam Tribute Colt Special Edition", cal. .223, semiautomatic rifle, bearing the American Historical Foundation registry numbers of VT0001 through VT1500.
What this entry requires
- ATF REQUIRESYour firearm is this edition: “AR-15 Sporter "The Viet Nam Tribute Colt Special Edition"”
- ATF REQUIRESYour firearm carries the marking “bearing the American Historical Foundation registry numbers of VT0001 through VT1500”
- ATF REQUIRESYour serial number is one ATF lists
- INFOATF states no date; production was about 1980–1995.
Editorial facts · Our research
Low editorial confidence. Some details below couldn’t be confirmed from independent sources. The ATF wording is unaffected. About confidence
- Country
United StatesBasis: no citation - Manufacturer
- Colt's Manufacturing Co. for the American Historical FoundationBasis: the ATF wording
- Type
- RifleBasis: the ATF wording
- Action
- Semi-autoBasis: the ATF wording
- Caliber
- .223Basis: the ATF wording
- Made
- c. 1980–1995production; ATF states no dateBasis: outside reference ¹
- Service
- Commercial
Source
- Official wording
- ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section II · PDF p. 4 ↗ · ATF original ↗
- Entries
- 1 line
- Verbatim check
- Checked against the PDF text before every release
- Editorial facts
- Confidence: Low · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence
- References
- 1. Wikipedia, “Colt AR-15” ↗, years: Colt AR-15 Sporter sold from 1964
- Fact tags
- ATF the ATF wording states it.
- REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
- ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
- NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.
- Source checked
- 20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition
- Corrections
- None
Historical context
Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Colt AR-15 Sporter Lightweight rifle - set (8378298853).jpg” by Steve Rainwater from Irving, US, CC BY-SA 2.0. Retrieved October 2026.
Summary: Wikipedia, “Colt AR-15”. Text CC BY-SA 4.0.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
The Colt AR-15 is a product line of magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifles manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt") in many configurations. The rifle is a derivative of its predecessor, the lightweight ArmaLite AR-15, an automatic rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and other engineers at ArmaLite in 1956.