The AR-15 is the most popular semi-auto rifle in the country – likely the world. AR’s offer the consumer choice, balance, value, and versatility, all while championing that concept of America at its core. But the biggest reason for its popularity is that you can make it your own.
You can customize it until you run out of money or gain uncanny willpower. You can make it into something that no other AR owner has if you want to.
From the simplest AR conversion upper to the pick-every-piece custom build, made for a specific niche use case, the AR is the rifle that you look to when you want to build something special with your unique signature.
And the AR is approachable enough, without being a gunsmith, or even an armorer, that many, if not most people can build their own, safely.
Why is it so easy to build or customize? Because it’s modular and made to a specification that allows for drop-in components. Let’s dive a bit deeper – in this article the point is to uncover why the modular AR platform is so desirable and get your wheels turning.
Does the AR 15 equal Freedom? The Freedoms espoused in the concept of a modular build rifle Choice trumps everything generally speaking, in the free market system. And America is all about freedom. We wrote it in the Constitution. We take every opportunity to espouse those rights, too.
Ask any American about freedom, and regardless of their place on the political spectrum, you’ll hear about the 1st or 2nd Amendment, or the 4th, or the 10th, or some other proof that it’s part of our DNA.
When you have a platform that allows you to decide, you are championing freedom. But with freedom comes great responsibility. That’s why websites like this, and articles like this, exist. Because no one wants to mess up an expensive AR build.
Or miss out on a piece of technology or a customized accessory that just hit the market or some configuration that makes incredible sense for their situation.
You can build it as your best friend built theirs. Or you can make their build look obsolete by comparison. It’s up to you, and your wallet. But ultimately the buck stops with you.
Who doesn’t want more choice, and constant evolution until perfection is reached?
The market evolves too. Once upon a time, there were conversion kits that didn’t run reliably when you dropped them on top of an AR lower. There once was only a single aftermarket trigger for the AR, in a sea of mass-produced mil-spec drop-in replacements made by military contract producers.
Once upon a time, the .50 Beowulf and the 6.5 Creedmoor, and the .300BLK didn’t exist. And while it’s hard to imagine a world where you don’t have cinder block destroying, car door-busting power in a compact carbine platform; or 1000+ yard tack-driving performance out of a 22-inch barreled AR, or whisper-soft muzzle exits from a .30 Cal, it was once his way.
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