Originally Posted by
MistWolf
One thing few folks realize about the M4. A bare bones M4 weighs, what? About 6-7 lbs? It handles heat as well or even better than other rifles weighing 9-12 lbs bare. Folks keep saying we need to improve on this 50 year old design but no one has anything that is as light, durable, accurate, rebuildable, configurable, reliable, simple, easy to use and pleasant to shoot. The whole argument is a tempest in a teapot and while folks keep getting worked up demanding something better, the AR FOW keeps chugging along, doing the job and doing it better than anything else