Yep. A carbon fiber lower would help this one immensely.
Well, $hit, stop putting on so much useless furniture. I build AR's (for myself) and average empty gun weight less than 5 pounds with optics. Thats without carbon fiber receivers. I dont mind carbon fiber on some components even though its expensive and not really necessary, but I want my receivers to last forever and forged or machined aluminum is my preference. Its the weight out on the front end that really matters anyway, not so much on the back end.
Less weight, more felt recoil. Which would women prefer?
My comment on this...The desired usage determines the desired trigger weight. If you are only going to shoot from a bench at paper targets for accuracy, get a light trigger. But then why waste a perfectly good AR to only bench shoot? If you are going to practice defensive shooting use a trigger close to mil spec weight, so as to reduce the chance of AD.
If an AR-15 is too heavy, get an M-1 Carbine.
From the article: "The cooling and heat-dissipation properties of the carbon fiber are noticeably better than their aluminum counterparts, . . ."
Typical AMSJ writing. It's because the carbon fiber upper is acting as an insulator, not a heat dissipator.
Makes it harder to target blue helmets, too.
Yep. A carbon fiber lower would help this one immensely.