@Shadowman311 @Hoss @Elliptica @deprecated_ii nobody likes it but I still foresee a time when this was done deliberately because the service sees the AR platform as emblematic of their enemy = white americans.
In the future they’ll demonize it even further, and herald the changover to a “better” gun as proof that america left ‘trumpism’ in the past. Plus they can give their negroid legions “OVERMATCH” and tell them that the smol-pp incel americans they’re brutalizing are carrying old, underpowered “racist rifles”