WOW!
"No honest man needs more than 10rds"
Ruger is feeling it. Evolve, or go extinct is what I say. LOL.
It is hard for these large establishment firearms makers to see change. Suprising. I mean, THR's rifle forum has had at least 1 daily AR-15 thread since 2004. Always someone asking advice on what to buy. Always "I'm looking at getting an AR-15" ...That's just one forum out of dozens, and just a drop in the bucket of the whole firearm world. They might not read forums, but as Ruger CEO's letter to shareholders states, distributor numbers are the language they speak.
This is fantastic. More proliferation, more acceptance. The more people have AR-15's the harder it is for Congress to ban them. More people have something to lose. Won't be like 1994, when the scumbags used "divide and conquer" on us getting a huge segment of the gun world to either agree or look the other way while they persecuted us "extremists" .... Ruger was always hostile to AR/AK's. Thankfully, in capitalism, where God is the almighty dollar, their lousy opinions no longer matter as they'd rather try and cash in and survive by selling AR-15's and striker-fired semi-auto pistols! LOL.
This is in a way, vindication. The "evil" and much hated Glock is now copied by all in some way. The AR-15, the "bullet hose" for criminals is going to be made by sporting companies like Remington and Ruger.
There's a chance, that in my lifetime - I'll be able to see an AR-15 in a Dick's sporting goods store. It can happen, maybe. We have a Dick's in a local shopping mall, and they carry rifles. That's huge, considering malls are ultra PC and have very anti-gun policies.
Nothing would be better than to return to the America of the 1950's where you could by a rifle at Sears and ammo and no one thought anything was wrong with it. I want to see ammo at Home Depot and Lowe's. That's how it used to be, that's how it should be.