fairchild-armalite was dissatisfied with the delays in setting up the tooling and production at a.i. for the ar-10, and made it clear that they would not be renewing a.i.'s license to produce the rifle. by 1960, hampered by dutch export restrictions and discouraged by the lack of arms sales to major national purchasers, artillerie inrichtingen decided to exit the small arms production business altogether, and ceased all production of the ar-10 under its license from fairchild-armalite. by that time, fewer than 10,000 ar-10s had been produced, mostly military select-fire rifles, with a few semi-automatic only rifles produced for civilian use. all a.i. ar-10 parts inventories, tooling, and prototypes were either sold or scrapped; the barrel tooling was sold to israel sometime in the early 1960s. all ar-10 production records, design drawings, manuals, literature, and other publications then in inventory were discarded.