Ruger® Redefines the AR Platform with the New SR-556™ Autoloading Rifle

Business Wire ^ | May 15, 2009 | Press Release

[Gator113]

H&K 416 or a Sig 556. Yes.

Thank for the reminder.

[Gator113]

One more thing. My RRA is also tricked out and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

[El Gato]

An AR that doesn’t shit where it eats? Bout freakin time.

There are others, LMT for example, they have just uppers that are gas piston operated. Plus Adam's Arms offers a kit to upgrade a regular AR to long stroke piston operation. Bushmaster has gas piston uppers.

[mamelukesabre]

Ah crap. forget about the pin BS. I forgot about that.

Isn’t it only certain years of the colt ARs that use smaller pins?

Let me rephrase that previous post.

If you set it side by side with a bushmaster, can you swap uppers?

There...is that better?

[Skibane]

I would like to get an AR 15. Anyone know anything about American Spirit out of Scottsdale, AZ?

American Spirit specializes in entry-level ARs. If you're inclined to go that route - and there are good reasons for doing so - I'd recommend Del-Ton instead. They're very affordable, but they don't scrimp on quality or customer service - and have no shortage of satisfied customers over on AR-15.com.

[Skibane]

Oops - Here's a link for Del-Ton that actually works:

Del-Ton

[Spktyr]

So, basically, they’re going to make an AR that can’t hit the broad side of a barn, the “special” Ruger branded magazines will cost eight times what magazines for comparable models do, and the next time there’s a gun ban they’ll sell out to keep their precious rifles on sale?

[Spktyr]

You can’t set some Colts next to some Colts and swap uppers, thanks to their stupid proprietary pin idiocy that they came up with.

So, I guess Colts are junk too.

[Spktyr]

With the wrong barrel twist, a bunch of aftermarket accessories (they couldn’t be bothered to make their own mags or Picatinny rails or anything else, they just bought them on the open market) and a stupidly high price for a piston carbine? Yeah, NO, they didn’t.

[Spktyr]

No, they didn’t. They screwed up the barrel, again.

The optimum for most 5.56 loads is 1 in *8*, not 1 in 9.

[AvOrdVet]

Piston operated as in M1 Garand?

You can run a piston system in any AR these days, I'm looking at retrofitting a 7.62X39 AR with a piston system to reduce the fouling.

[AvOrdVet]

Piston operated as in M1 Garand?

Bushmaster AR Piston System

[Shooter 2.5]

Can you set it next to a colt and swap uppers?

If not, it’s junk.

What size pins does your Colt have? I'll size my Armalite to compare.

[Shooter 2.5]

According to one of the articles, the accuracy is impressive. It also uses standard magazines.

Are you going to blame an American Company for what their dead in the grave founder did thirty years ago?

[Chode]

you can brush all you want, i still consider it a design flaw...

[Shooter 2.5]

Just where do you suppose the powder residue deposits are in an AK-47, M-1 Garand or M-14?

[Chode]

on the SKS and the AK, 90% is at the front, on top of the piston head... on the ones i own anyway they both look like the top of a car piston that was running a bad mix. you clean that off and poke a cleaning rod through the port hole into the barrel and it's clean.

the M1/M14 is still at the front of the gas system not dumping all that crap DIRECTLY onto the bolt...

[Chode]

a semi proof it is a design flaw, is the fact that on the AR-18 he got rid of the gas tube.

[Goldsborough]

The true importance of this Ruger is that now the three biggest mainline American firearms manufacturers are all selling so-called assault rifles.

With S&W, Remington, and Ruger all making ARs it is now more difficult for anyone to argue that they are dangerous and unusual firearms under Heller's standards for categorical bans.

[Yorlik803]

I dont like the mini 14 because of the ammo. 5.56 ammo isnt really the same as .223. Higher pressure in one.
Why didnt Ruger make it the same caliber as the AR15 type???