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    THE SLEEPER

    Dec 08, 2020 4 minutes
    By Tom Marshall

    Retro and clone AR builds have exploded in popularity over the last decade. Whatever the reason, rebuilding black guns from bygone eras is a thriving subculture of AR owners. Whether replicating prototypes from the 1950s and ’60s or reproducing the specific guns of special units, cloning is more popular than ever.

    True clone builds take weeks or months of research and scavenging, depending on your level of dedication, to find period-accurate ev-er-y-thing down to pins and screws. We love retro style, but we also enjoy the benefits of modern engineering. So began the Sleeper Carbine, a gun with groovy retro-style powered and — variants of the CAR-15/XM177 that bridged the gap between true Vietnam-era clones and the modularity of post-GWOT rifles.

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