Originally Posted By: ClapperZapper
They are battle rifles.
The AR platform does 2x the work with half the weight.

Nostalgia aside of course.


Zapper's right about that. However that is not why the AR is the most popular rifle in the US. The popularity, it seems to me represents public disapproval of heavy handed government infringement on our peculiar, in worldwide terms civil right to own and bear arms...Geo