Aesthetics, the original slick and slender AR was a very outer space ray gun, all, what, 6+ pounds of it. A2's, A4's, M4's are just rifles with stuff hanging on them. My kid's M4 all up seems heavier than my Romanian SAR1 with a steel CLIP.
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