[Spktyr]

The AR-15 is fundamentally flawed and will continue to be so. There is no way to fix the eventual fouling of the upper receiver and chamber.

Stoner fixed the design with the AR-18, but nobody in the US was interested at the time.

The IRA liked it in the form of the AR-180, and they gave the Brits fits with it. Very reliable weapon, equal to the AK, and with the accuracy of the AR.

[RKV]

I would disagree with you that the design is flawed. I own two ARs (along with a gun safe full of other goodies) and have some experience with the design. The problems our guys are seeing are not the ones introduced when the design was initially fielded - we got the chrome lining of the barrels now and the right kind of powder. What we are seeing is lack of stopping power and range. That we can fix, without going through years of testing and failures in the field.

[SJSAMPLE]

Fouling from the gas system has not been a significant failure mode since powders were switched in the 1960s.

The real problem with the AR/M-16 platform is based on the magazine. Cheap aluminum magazines made by a rotating cycle of minority bidders makes for a very unreliable feeding system.

I've been shooting ARs and M-16s for over twenty years and even after THOUSANDS of rounds though my rifles in single sessions, I've never experienced a carbon-induced failure. It's always been the mags and now that the AWB has expired, we're seeing a much higher quality of magazine (HK steel, new stainless mags, and soon a new polymer mag) than ever before.

[Yo-Yo]

The AR-15 is fundamentally flawed and will continue to be so. There is no way to fix the eventual fouling of the upper receiver and chamber.

Au Contraire, Moi FReeper FRiend!

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