>>64165128
the thing is tho 20 years ago if you wanted one all you had was colt, kac, bushmaster and maybe stag arms and rock river
15 years ago same above plus DD, larue and lmt started popping off
10 years ago you get the hipster brands like bcm, noveske and the redheaded step child psa starting out
once the assault weapons ban sunsetted thats when you seen the ar15 market start to evolve to what it is now, before that and shortly after nobody really wanted them because they were overpriced and the vietnam stigmata took 30 years to shake off from being a jamomatic plastic toy but now the market is so flooded with ar15 stuff the last decade I can see your argument
but the ar18 designed rifles were coming around about the same time as the ar15 arc was on the upswing, now theres no dethroning the ar15. its the linux of rifles. open source and everybody uses it at some capacity same as glock, countless companies have basically cloned gen 3 glocks (psa, ruger, shadow, zev)
yet nobody has the ar15 di system, not even an attempt to slap a pig in lipstick. they always take a ar18 design and wrap it around a new shell

even the new army rifle is a ar15 exterior with a ar18 interior
weird flex, but ok