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You can see the change at gun shows too. Gun shows use to be 90% hunting or collectable/rare rifles. Now they’re ar15s and accessories as far as the eye can see
by chasd00 4y ago
You can see the change at gun shows too. Gun shows use to be 90% hunting or collectable/rare rifles. Now they’re ar15s and accessories as far as the eye can see.
I’m not sure what changed, maybe the ar15 patent expired, they’ve always been around just not that popular. Then, all of a sudden, they were everywhere.
- idiotsecant 4y agoAR-15s are dirt cheap to manufacture, super modular and customizable, and are really just all around great guns. There's a reason they're so popular.
- Tool_of_Society 4y agoThe AR-15 is basically a gun version of legos. You can buy one AR-15 lower receiver (which counts as the gun) and then just swap out uppers depending on what you're hunting.
- everforward 4y agoIt's a combination of access to cheap military surplus ammo, light recoil making them approachable to beginners, a standardized platform, and rails for accessories. Plus a little bit of a "badass" effect from it being based on a military weapon. Military weapons also generically have the advantage of having been tested for ruggedness, and not having to worry about being able to find parts or ammo in a decade.