A beautiful example of a Stoner 63 from a European collector. The serial number on the receiver indicates it was part of the earliest of the first Cadillac Gage manufacturing run, probably 1964.
The Stoner 63 was designed to be extremely modular, so that you could swap out barrels, feed systems, stocks, bipods, etc… depending upon whether you wanted to use it as a standard infantry rifle, carbine, belt-fed machine gun, vehicle-mounted machine gun, etc…
Note that this one has what I understand is an underbarrel grenade launcher but perhaps someone can fill us in on what exactly it is?
Limited numbers of Stoner 63s saw action in Vietnam, including by Navy SEALs. These were apparently in use by specialized units up through the 1980s.
Production of the Stoner 63 and Stoner 63A ran from roughly 1963 to 1971, with only about 3,500 to 4,000 units made in total, making it a rare and innovative design that predated modern modularity trends by decades.
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