What makes a quality AR and a bad AR?
My two cents.
The intended use defines what is "good" and what is "bad."
If I was occupying Fallujah or breaching buildings on a SWAT team, I would want something put together as reliable and bombproof as possible. Things like accuracy and weight would probably be secondary concerns to it always going bang when I pulled the trigger, under wartime conditions.
If I was varmint hunting or shooting paper, accuracy would probably be the top concern.
If I had it stowed behind the seat in a pickup and occasionally pulled it out for general purpose rural shooting, portability and compactness might be the top concern.
The intended role establishes parameters for "good" and "bad." Anyone saying this brand of ARs is "bad" is really saying "this brand of ARs does not meet my particular intended use."
