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Originally Posted by tahunua001
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Originally Posted by SIGSHR
AR-15s are popular because many shooters in this country like to have the same firearms they trained on in Uncle Sam's service and the AR-15 is designed for modern low cost rapid manufacture.
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interesting...
while I was serving uncle sam I wasn't restricted to semi auto and my M16 didn't have a nice badger ordnance handguard, RRA 2 stage trigger and hogue pistol grip. the controls may be the same as the M16/4 but they are not the same thing and nobody would claim that they are unless their last name is holder, fienstien or clinton.
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C'mon, you know what he meant. Sure, the AR-15 is not the same as the M4/M16, but they're almost the same. The only difference is an inch-and-a-half of barrel and the option to go burst (or full-auto) with the M4, and with the M16 the only difference is burst.
They're similar enough that people trained on the former in the military often end up buying the latter in the civilian world due to familiarity. That's the exact reason I bought my first AR-15.