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I'm not saying I want anything else. I myself love AR-15s, M1s, M14s, and 1911s. I have simply wondered if in the future the AR platform will be so popular. This week when I get paid I'm ordering a BCM upper and I will be getting an LMT lower next month but just because I love ARs doesn't mean everyone else will in 30 years. I see where you are coming from though and it is a very valid opinion which I hope ends up being right.
Levi
Last edited by levik97; 08-01-13 at 21:28.
"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm probably wrong, but the AR/M-16 FOW may be the last great service weapon to make it into civilian hands in great numbers. I was brought up shooting '03s, M1s, M1 carbines, the AR-180, and the M1A/M14. My first time shooting the AR/M-16 platform was during the Small Arms Firing School at Camp Perry in 1978. It was an M-16 with the FA disabled. It felt clunky compared to the Springfield M1A I was used to shooting. It even said Mattel on the stock, but for a 14 year old it was still cool to shoot.
Fast forward a few years and the Army decided that it would get behind the AR for service rifle competition. The next thing you know the AR was a winner and the civilian market for the AR as a competition rifle exploded.
My point to all of this is will we see another service rifle make its way from the battlefield to Main St. USA again? The M1 Garand and M1 Carbine were the last of the surplus rifles to be offered to the public. We have Colt to thank for making the AR-15 available to the public. I would like to think that it may happen again. Only time will tell.
Almost forgot.
http://www.imfdb.org/images/f/f1/Pulse_Rifle-1-.jpg
10mm caseless u-stack magazine fed rifle with underbarrel shotgun.
Until we move past brass cased ammo dont expect to see much else. Every gun maker has hit a wall in terms of small arms. At lesst when confined to brass cased ammo.
Last edited by sinlessorrow; 08-01-13 at 21:38.
We may very well be the old guys who shoot all wrong and use those old, antiqey ARs just because they're slim, have sweet single action triggers and we like that they're made of metal.
That is, if we live to be old enough to see the next big thing...
I think caseless ammunition is the future, but were clearly a few years away from making any giant advancements in that regard
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Ironman suits will be the next fielded and us lowly civilians will have nothing more than out shoulder fired small arms for eternity![]()
I'm thinking peripherals still have a ways to go for the AR platform. First probably thermal advances bringing the price way down, and eventually computer diagnosed target location using sound, movement, chemical, density and who knows what other sensors. Facial recognition in another generation or two could have some nasty implications.
I'm kinda hoping not to see man portable rail guns in my lifetime, but not optimistic.
The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity. And since then, generations of intelligent students under the guidance of their enlightened professors have looked into the abyss, have contemplated those beasts, and have said, “How interesting, how exciting.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss (1994)
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We build the ED-209 and take over the world.
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