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Wow. My IQ just dropped a good 10 to 12 points by reading that article.

Star chamber? Who still talks like that? Bent gas tube? I have literally never heard of an AR going down because of a bent gas tube. And if it does (it won't) it's a 9 dollar part, that can be repaired with garage tools and a receiver block.

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https://i.imgur.com/9BoqMok.jpg

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For the price of an AK, I can get an AR and enough parts to rebuild it a few times. If he wants something he can use in SHTF that will keep going no matter what, get a Garand. Funny, he didn't mention that one...

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I'm literally dumber for having read that.

"It's too complex" ???

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Is it possible that the author, as a 28 year green beret, saw the worst of the system in the worst of times and forged his opinion on anecdotal evidence?  Or is the author a shill for a competing firearm?

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I’m not even gonna give that article a click

The AR 15 is a phenomenal platform

Your house isn’t Nam

Get PSA uppers and lowers and spend your money on a BCG, Optic and a Light.

Save money, Save your life, save a horse ride a cowboy

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The ultimate prepper weapon is the SKS, the rear sight adjusts to 1,000m. The M16 only 800m or a Mosin Nagant with its sights being low to the bore and no silly early unlocking bolt goes to 2,000m.

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Just shilling for clicks.

What he points out is insanity, not seeing the worst of a system.

"Flowers don’t belong in assault rifles. Some say the star chamber provides accuracy. It does not. Bolt-action sniper rifles don’t have star chambers."

He doesn't actual list a bad military/ overseas/ personal experience happening with ARs, (just with people showing up at his range with ammo/guns of unlisted quality) just that they bad because they have flowers.

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Excerpts from the article

In the military we are taught that the AR-15 is a fine weapon "as long as you maintain it." In truth, the design works (80% of the time) in spite of itself, and has gone through so many design iterations that people have lost count.  The history of the AR-15 is a history of band-aids

The front sight assembly sits ridiculously high because the straight (non-ergonomic) stock has to contain a massive spring and buffer assembly. If the weight or spring compression in that assembly is off just a small amount, it causes malfunction. This design flaw, right out of the gate, causes a huge mechanical offset where the eye lines up around three inches higher than the barrel. That's why in 2019 you can't find a new AR-15 with an old school front sight assembly

The gas tube is thin, fragile and subject to bending or breakingusually taking the rifle out of commission.

???????

The star chamber and bolt face are perhaps the single biggest design flaw of the AR-15.  That's the eight-petaled flower at the front of the bolt. Flowers don't belong in assault rifles. Some say the star chamber provides accuracy. It does not. Bolt-action sniper rifles don't have star chambers. They have two or three lug bolts and they are the gold standard for accuracy.

There is no delay in the bolt moving during the extraction phase and this causes tremendous mechanical resistance. When the bolt carrier begins to move, it tries immediately to turn the bolt without first gaining momentum. If the bolt is stuck to the inside of the chamber due to fouling (or crap ammo like in Vietnam) then there is often not enough energy to knock the bolt back into rotation. There's no "running start" to dislodge the bullet before turning the bolt. Almost all battle rifles, like the M14, M1 and AK use a delayed rotating bolt. The mass of the bolt carrier, once in motion, wants to stay in motion and hits the bolt like a hammer, knocking it into rotation and into extraction. Not so for the AR-15.

The extractor, due to its design has issues because it is similar to a teeter-totter that is out of balance. This causes the extractor to want to slip off the rim of the casing causing failure to extract malfunctions. This is particularly evident when the chamber gets fouled from use in combat conditions. Almost all infantry soldiers carry cleaning rods to clear this brutal malfunction so they can knock a spent casing out of the chamber and get back in the fight.

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Never mind . Complete reading comprehension fail on my part.

Read this without enough caffeine and exercise this morning.

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For a while there was a program where you could be punched straight through from Basic training to the Q-course (etc.) and end up as SF.  Generally not regarded as a successful program.

ETA:  this was in response to the question about how someone could end up in SF with no other experience in the army...

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So far I like better than my ARs
TavorX95 & Aug
XCR
B&T
Para FAL
Soon scar16

Also have a Russian AK but it’s not my favorite

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Why would you use a firearm in a SHTF situation that would be hard as hell to scrounge basic replacement parts for including magazines? The AR is probably the easiest rifle you'll ever find to scrounge parts for if you prepped and the SHTF plus the cheapest to stockpile a few parts for.

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A blowgun, corndog, and a state fair survival knife is all I need.

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What other weapons of its class have you experienced that you think are better than the AR15?

the guys at Little Creek seem to think the Mini14 is preferable.