ACR SBR

Everyone had high hopes when Remington/Bushmaster announced the Adaptive Combat Rifle. It was a carbine that was the embodiment of everything the consumer should’ve wanted, according to current thinking — and yet somehow, it was met with a collective yawn by the vast majority of the American gun-buying public.

Those few adventurous souls willing to be early adopters will probably never do that again, as the upper echelons of Freedom Group management did the same thing to firearms development as Nickelback did to music. We can only speculate as to why, but perhaps “Not Invented Here” syndrome might have had something to do with it, as the gun was originally designed by Magpul.

In a marketplace currently saturated with $400 AR-15s, the ACR has a hard row to hoe, and despite entering its second decade of production, there’s still virtually bugger-all in the way of factory support. Need an upper receiver or lower parts kit? Good luck with that. While there’s a galaxy of AR parts suppliers willing to separate you from your cash, Bushmaster currently lists a total of 19 ACR components on their website. And although there