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6/25/2025, 12:08:32 AM
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>My most controversial take is the AR is as good or maybe better than the AK and Eugene Stoner is a genius. Its an incredible rifle design that came out of the peak of American industrial ingenuity.
Better by what metric? Sheer reliability, modularity, performance in harsh conditions? The AR is a perfectly adequate service rifle for a country that possess the industrial capability to manufacture it. But it struggles without proper maintenance, dirty ammunition, and loses to the AK in the cold (which is why the Alaskan State Troopers bought Russian Saigas until 2014). Most of its successes come from the fact the US has lenient gun laws which allow Americans to tinker with and experiment with their guns far more easily than anywhere else, inevitably driving innovation.
The truth is that there hasn't been a massive jump in firearms technology in decades to propel any one design over the other.
>My most controversial take is the AR is as good or maybe better than the AK and Eugene Stoner is a genius. Its an incredible rifle design that came out of the peak of American industrial ingenuity.
Better by what metric? Sheer reliability, modularity, performance in harsh conditions? The AR is a perfectly adequate service rifle for a country that possess the industrial capability to manufacture it. But it struggles without proper maintenance, dirty ammunition, and loses to the AK in the cold (which is why the Alaskan State Troopers bought Russian Saigas until 2014). Most of its successes come from the fact the US has lenient gun laws which allow Americans to tinker with and experiment with their guns far more easily than anywhere else, inevitably driving innovation.
The truth is that there hasn't been a massive jump in firearms technology in decades to propel any one design over the other.
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