Its boomers that love ARs in my experience. Somehow a hunting rifle with a caliber used in wars for decades and decades isn’t manly enough or scary enough (even though they understand most delineations for “assault” rifles are quite contrived). They want to be “prepared” for all the fantasies they have in their head and don’t understand how violent encounters happen beyond what they’ve seen from Bruce Willis’ choreography. They want the commodity and what it does for their identity more than they want security, utility, or whatever.
The best way to counter violent situations is to avoid them, not to follow whatever your favorite gun magazine says.
Gas guns have their purpose. 5.56 is a great round with solid performance. You could have easily made this same shot with an AR. Having gone to competitions, everyone in every age bracket basically had an AR, unless they were in the long-range division (500 yards+).
Also the ammo is cheap, the parts are cheap, the mags are cheap, the furniture is cheap, the lights and optics can be cheap-ish, and you can pop off multiple rounds quickly, as needed. ARs are a solid platform.
And in my experience, it’s the boomers / fudds who like their bolt guns.
Everyone and their brother uses the AR platform, the boomer gunman showing these kids how to do assassination in style.
Its boomers that love ARs in my experience. Somehow a hunting rifle with a caliber used in wars for decades and decades isn’t manly enough or scary enough (even though they understand most delineations for “assault” rifles are quite contrived). They want to be “prepared” for all the fantasies they have in their head and don’t understand how violent encounters happen beyond what they’ve seen from Bruce Willis’ choreography. They want the commodity and what it does for their identity more than they want security, utility, or whatever.
The best way to counter violent situations is to avoid them, not to follow whatever your favorite gun magazine says.
Gas guns have their purpose. 5.56 is a great round with solid performance. You could have easily made this same shot with an AR. Having gone to competitions, everyone in every age bracket basically had an AR, unless they were in the long-range division (500 yards+).
Also the ammo is cheap, the parts are cheap, the mags are cheap, the furniture is cheap, the lights and optics can be cheap-ish, and you can pop off multiple rounds quickly, as needed. ARs are a solid platform.
And in my experience, it’s the boomers / fudds who like their bolt guns.
You can take my bolties and my lever actions from my cold blistered hands
The ping sound is like a warm hug from a very violent friend.