Johnny Noveske started Noveske Rifleworks in the fall of 2001 with the simple idea of taking attention to detail and quality materials, usually reserved for custom match rifles, and applying it to the AR15. At the tail end of the Clinton Era Assault Weapon Ban, the AR15 was a mass produced rack rifle made to the forgiving military specifications and tarnished by lingering rumors of reliability and accuracy issues from the Vietnam war. In his garage in Grants Pass, Oregon on a Logan lathe, Johnny set out to make the AR15 shorter, more accurate and most importantly, more reliable.