Will the AR-15 be fondly remembered like the Garand?

[John Kepler]

Well, here we go again, "the AR is always going to be the more accurate platform" Well, only a SMALL number of us are going to the national matches, BUT a Large number of us got a free set of clothes, and a free rifle for several years, (though we had to give it back) Now These are the folks who will be doing the remembering, not a much smaller number of target shooters.

Yep.....and more and more of those folks, like my son the E5, think of your "old iron" as nothing but quaint relics of a by-gone era....and the AR as what a rifle is supposed to be like. Don't look now, but they's more of them these days than us! My son will also tell you that based on HIS combat experience, the AR is MORE than capable of "punching holes in people"...I always thought so too!

As for the rest.....John, I'd rather have a capability and not need it than need a capability and not have it. Besides, as long as I can hit a 10-Ring at 1000 yds with a Service Rifle....I want rifle that can too!