Need help buying an M-4......

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A female coworker wants to buy an M-4 for hubby's birthday. Those of you who have one of these or have studied them please offer avice. We are looking to ascertain, best vendor, price, features, etc.

Please keep to like $1,000. more or less!

Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated. I have a generic M-15 (exactly like what I trained on in the 70's - USAF) and am not too overly familiar with current production models.

Thanks.

(I know - I wish she were my wife too!)
 
My personal preferance is for Stag Arms. They're mil-spec and are affordable. FBMG, a gun shop here in Utah owned by two THR moderators, sells them in flat-top configuration with an ARMS folding rear sight for under $900.00, new-in-box.

Rock River Arms is, in my opinion, over priced. Bushmaster is most common but a lot of places want a LOT of money for them. Armalites are good, as is DPMS. Olympic Arms can be questionable, depending on who you talk to (no personal experience). Avoid anything from Hesse or Vulcan Arms like the plague.

Colts are good rifles if you can find one, but you're going to be paying a lot of money for a gun that Stag's parent company makes the parts for anyway. (If I recall correctly.)
 
i've done about a year of research and will be picking up a StagArms in the very near future.
 
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I'm an M14 man, but I am seriously considering the COLT MODEL LE 6920 M4 ~ under $1200.00 out the door.
 
check out bushmaster and stg, rra etc. i have a bushmaster that i have ran hard and it has never let me down. the can be had for under the price range and would serve the owner well. i say go with a flat top so that optics may be used in thf future if the need or want arises.
 
Now, I'm a huge fan of S&W, but...

Stag Arms makes the guns for S&W. Just an FYI.
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I understand that Stag made the first run of MP15's but Smith and Wesson is now making everything in-house. I will investigate; can anyone else speak to this?
 
I just got off the phone with Stag, seeing if I could get a rifle in something other than 1:9 twist (the answer is no), so I thought I'd ask them about the S&W connection and shed some light on the subject. They are not currently making rifles for S&W, and they will neither confirm nor deny that they made the first batch. The exact words were "we're not supposed to talk about that". So, I guess the answer is, "they did but they aren't".
 
I understand that Stag made the first run of MP15's but Smith and Wesson is now making everything in-house. I will investigate; can anyone else speak to this?
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No, nobody makes "everything" in house...

But Smith is getting some parts from LMT now, I know that much. Last I knew, CMT was still making receivers for them... but CMT is not Stag... It is simply the parent company of Stag.

That said, I will say get a Stag if your ceiling is $1000. They make a great rifle for the money.
 
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