Not Really My Thing

By James Rummel

I came across a picture I liked. This was it.

This prompted Steven den Beste to ask the following.

“There’s something down there next to the AR-15 that looks like submachine gun. What is it?”

Can’t say for sure because I don’t own the guns myself, but it looks to me like a Short Barreled Rifle. (SBR)

(Picture source.)

The ArmaLite firearm company has always been interested in standing out, making something new. The AR-15, which went on to be adopted by the US military as the M-16, is kinda-sorta modular. What I mean by that is you really can’t take one rifle and simply swap out a few parts to make a completely different gun with distinct handling characteristics and capabilities, but the basic design does lend itself to customization pretty well.

Civilian firearm enthusiasts in the United States are always looking to push the envelope, Lord love ’em! Someone got the bright idea of acquiring the shortest barrel possible, with the teensiest of shoulder stocks, and making a …Read the Rest

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