fatcat4620
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Dang, swamp man dropped a bomb!
By that logic, I suppose nobody shoots AR's anymore, the AR does not dominate everything from 3-gun to USPSA carbine to Camp Perry style matches to recreational centerfire plinking, the AR is not the most common HD carbine in U.S. homes, they don't sell AR's at Walmart, all the Eotechs and Aimpoints and lights and VFG's sold annually are not purchased for AR's, and .223 Remington is far and away the top selling caliber of centerfire rifle ammunition in the United States because of all those bolt-action varmint rifles...Face it guys and gals, the "AR-15 type rifle" isn't the biggest selling rifle in America, it's a counterfeit pure and simple. Except for a constantly decreasing number of ancient Armalites and old AR-15's from the pre "self castration" days when Colt was a "Firearms Company", not a "Manufacturing Company".
The AR-15 is EXTINCT!
In my opinion, if I were assessing whether the 870 platform is the top selling design of pump shotgun in the United States, I'd consider any 870 to be an 870, regardless of maker, just like a 1911 is a 1911 whether or not it is made by Colt, and a M1 Garand is an M1 Garand regardless of who made it. Though I was not aware the design of the 870 is in the public domain (if it is, cool). Is the pardner built to the same blueprints as a Remington 870?I have played the parts swap game with my pardner pump and 870. Does that make then the same? Even ordered replacement parts for the pardner from remington.
American Hunter Rem. 700 advert.: over 7 Million sold in the U.S.A.. I think it's got the AR beat. Love my M4 though.
Doubtful
Look at all the AR specific internet shops, they are AR only and there are dozens of them. Name one other online shop that does a single style firearm, I can only think of one or two and those are for the 10/22.
name one store that does another style of firearm only.
I would love to see the true tally with AR, AK, bolt action all subdivided, etc
The AR is the best selling centerfire rifle in the United States, but I would agree that rimfire sales probably top the centerfire numbers. I assume (but have not verified) that the 10/22 is the top selling rimfire.I like my AR, yet I also own the same guns listed above. (700BDL, Mod 60, 10/22, etc.) I am just not convinced they beat out the simple 22LRs in total sales.
Name an online gunshop that has the market power to only support one kind of gun? STI, Glock, SIG, and Browning vendors and aftermarket companies come to mind, just to name a few.
The best selling rifle in America is the Remington Model 700. That was my guess a few weeks ago, and their advert. in NRA's American Hunter just proved it to me.
I'd narrow it down to the Toyota test as well, as I call it: still in the field rifles. 700s are everywhere, forever.
For what its worth (maybe not much), "most produced" is is not the same as "best-selling".
Although the AR15 platform not be the most produced, there is no denying that is the most commonly used and probably best-selling (the Military and LEO agencies included) type of rifle. That is a matter of semantics though.
30Cal said:The AWB of '94 is why they're popular. Before then, very very few people were buying them and there were only maybe 3 manufacturers.