Why is the AR platform so popular?

At first people were like
>oh look is da same gun da soljerz use, I'll take 6
And then a few dozen manufacturers were all
>lemme get a piece of this
Then more people were like
>the gun's so cheap
>ammo too
>omigod look at all the accessories
>it's like legos for adults
Then some spergs shot up a few schools, liberals called for AR-15 bans because that's the only gun they know the name of, and people panic-bought more AR-15s year after year. And thus the AR-15 has earned its place as the normiest gun of our age.

Why do you keep calling leftists liberals

US civvie market allows innovation and marketing.

If Russia or Germany has better weapons laws and civie markets, you would see the widespread of other platforms.

Cuz they are.

1) The patents ran out, so no one has to pay royalties to build them, making them cheap.
2) They work well.
3) They're highly customizable.
4) People don't trust the government anymore. This really needs emphasizing. The AWB passed without too much trouble in 1994 because back then "assault weapons" just weren't that popular, so not too many people were that upset about losing them. Yes, part of it was that they were more expensive, but another big factor was that back then people trusted the government more than they do now and The Happening™ seemed like a remote possibility that wasn't realistically worth worrying about. But there's been a lot of water under the bridge since then - Waco, Oklahoma City, 9/11, Bush's wars and spying, the divisiveness of the Obama years, the continued drop in the white population toward minority status, the increasing shrillness of the SJW left, and the rise of the internet and alternative news sources that exposed lots of shenanigans that the mainstream media would have happily covered up. Owning even just one AR would have made you seem like Burt Gummer to people back when Tremors hit theaters. Now, well... things are different and a lot of people feel the need to have stashed away somewhere.

There is, by definition, nothing liberal about prohibitions, restrictions, bans, etc.

Goddamn, good fucking explanation.

I'd also add that it's the most prolific and iconic Semi-Automatic rifle in the western world. AKs are widely available and popular, but carry a stigma because of a combination of fuddlore and xenophobia. All other Semi-auto rifles are either prohibitively expensive or garbage in the modern day.

The AR-15 wins by default.

Inline recoil makes it a breeze to shoot
All the important shit is within a fingers reach of a firing grip
It's accurate for what it is
Ammo is dirt fucking cheap because of the military adopting 5.56
You can also LARP with it
Platform lends itself to modularity
No, seriously, the modularity is insane. You can convert calibers in 15 seconds.
It's old, so the patent expired
There's a standard to follow so every companies gear works with every other companies gear
It's always a mass shooting away from being banned, so get it while it lasts.

>Goddamn, good fucking explanation.
Thanks.
Most people under 40 don't remember this, but before Bill Clinton got elected, the gun control debate centered mostly on banning handguns, and instead of school shootings, the "national tragedies" that were used to stir emotions on it were the murders of Robert Kennedy and John Lennon. Oddly enough, as leftists kept doing shit that made people trust the government less, they also decided that the gun control issue that really needed addressing involved the firearms that would be most effective in resisting a government that had overstepped its bounds.

Which, in a great example of the Streisand Effect, only made people want them more.

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Yet liberals still support them.

Who gives a ducks fuck all gun grabbers should be sent to a communist country

Smart people dont argue with results.

In America, there is nothing more fundamentally liberal than prohibitions, restrictions, bans, etc. You may want to cling to the term "liberal" but I don't think there are any politicians in the house or senate that use the label that aren't for those things.

American liberalism isn't classic liberalism, it is as you said leftism.

>people without sr-15's
fucking
LAME

Yes, Liberalism in its original sense, was closer to what libertarianism today. Modern western leftists do not correlate to classic liberalism.

Because you only need to make one piece of it to get your foot in the door as a serious manufacturer.

magpul literally started just making eponymous magazine cozies, and now we have to look at their shit everywhere.

Because he doesn't use "gay" to describe a sense of joy anymore either, user. The word's gone, you're not getting it back.

Because statist/socialist leftists basically Shanghai'd the word and now that's what liberal means in the Americas.
Incidentally, 'libertarian', what was devised as the substitute word, is gradually being appropriated by statist/corporatist righties in the same way, meaning that term has a shelf life too.

I want to say that if we prevent reckless immigration, and dial it back in insane places like California, whites in America will probably remain slightly over half for the foreseeable future.
There's this meme that birthrates are plumetting, but they actually aren't, democrats just do their damndest to import different demographics for votes.

Yeah but that's what they're calling themselves, they essentially stole and perverted the word.

I think if it weren't for some bullshit laws, AKs would still be selling pretty damn closely.
Saigas were pretty good and well liked, if they weren't tarriffed as high and they could be imported with normal stocks and magwells, they'd lie damn near close to the AR in sales, because they're good rifles with a reputation.

>the murders of Robert Kennedy and John Lennon
They kinda deserved to get shot, tbhfam.
Kennedys are a line of crooks, and Lennon was just a fucking asshole, I'm surprised he wasn't killed by a family member in a domestic dispute.

I like MOE handuards.

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modularity & comfort
literally grown men's barbie

Because it's cheap, works well enough, and is as modular as a lego set so faggots can build peacock guns without any mechanical skills.

Peacock guns?

Is that the guns people set up to be tacticool and then take to the range once a year to “break in” their rifle at 100 rounds?

I'd wager the lower prices and customization options have a lot to do with it.
The liberals of today aren't the liberals of the past.

I never understood why so many people buy ar's here in finland. Literally every single time there's ar's on the range and they jam. I haven't ever seen an ak variant jam but every time there is couple of ar's that jam, some of them had jammed so badly that they have had to leave. It's not even cheap, it's almost double the cost than ak's. I just don't understand why. Maybe these work somewhere in the world but apparently not here. Maybe it's bad ammo they use, they are always .223

Because the army uses it.