Gun Review: Springfield Saint, a beginner friendly AR (VIDEO)

By Jacki Billings

After a month long buildup on social media, Springfield Armory dropped news of the Saint – the company’s first foray into the AR-15 platform. The industry was torn over the announcement, with some questioning the need for yet another AR while others praised the Saint’s simplistic and beginner friendly design.
The Saint is a non-intimidating, newcomer style that I was most interested in checking out. Pistols are my forte and the platform I’ve trained on for nearly a decade. Rifles, and specifically ARs, not so much. I have what one would term “a working knowledge” of AR-15s in that I understand the mechanics and uses but I just haven’t spent a lot of time shooting them.
Hoping to gain some insight on the Saint’s novice nature, I decided to tackle this review from the perspective of a ground level AR shooter. There’s nothing fancy here, folks, just a stripped down, basic view of how the Saint performs for a rookie rifle enthusiast.
The Basics
The Saint is a standard AR-15 design, sporting a 16-inch barrel chambered in 5.56 NATO. Measuring 35.5-inches fully extended and 32.25-inches collapsed, the Saint tips scales at just over six pounds unloaded.
Equipped with a flip-up rear sight, the AR-15 can

Source: Guns.com