How the market reacts to a gun ban, part 2: "Featureless" AR by Ares Defense Systems

[Jgarrick]

http://www.guns.com/2014/04/11/stylish-new-featureless-ar-ares-defense-systems-video/



Ares Defense Systems, better known for their modular, piston-driven belt-fed uppers for AR-15 and M16 lower receivers, is about to launch a new rifle that will make a lot of people happy. Called the SCR for Sport Configurable Rifle, this “featureless” AR is perfectly legal in all 50 states. The SCR is not technically an AR. It’s a pistol grip-free rifle that accepts AR-15 upper receivers. This gives users the ability to have all of the benefits of AR uppers, the huge amount of aftermarket support, precision barrels and free-floating handguards all in a package that fits in same box as your gradpa’s hunting rifle.

And we mean all AR-15 upper receivers. This is not a bufferless .22 rifle. The SCR will be manufactured in 5.56 NATO/.223 Remington and 7.62x39mm and is compatible with standar AR-15 uppers. The SCR uses a modified bolt carrier with an extension that drops into a recoil tube inside the stock, similar to some semi-auto shotguns. The bolt carrier is proprietary but the bolt itself is standard. We will know more about the rifle when it is officially unveiled at the NRA Annual Meeting.

“The Ares SCR accepts virtually every AR upper receiver assembly and caliber that is currently practiced on an AR platform, except it must use our proprietary bolt carrier to work with the lower,” explained Ares on their Facebook page. “So this means that a customer can take their 6.5 Grendel, 300 Blackout, .50 Beowulf, etc. and put the bolt into our carrier and they can have this rifle in that caliber and configuration of their upper mated to our lower.”

The design is not entirely new. Announced a few years back as the Herring Modular Sporting Rifle or MSR, Ares Defense unveiled a prototype at the 2009 SHOT Show that never went into production. With several states adding new restrictions on AR-15 rifles, there’s a larger market than ever for a hybrid rifle like this than ever before. That doesn’t mean that the SCR only appeals to restricted markets. The traditional design has a lot going for it as far as hunting and benchrest shooting is concerned. This will give the non-tactical shooters out there an AR-like option, again with all the benefits of the Stoner design as far as the upper is concerned. It will appeal even more to that market once the wood stocks roll around.

(excerpt, remainder of article at link)

It certainly looks better (and propably handles better as well) than those NY-compliant ARs!

[NYC_SKP]

1. Still looks scary! And stop with your NRA talking points about "upper receivers"!

"upper receivers"?

What is that, some kind of Freeper Code?

[mog75]

2. upper

By pushing out two pins you can replace the upper receiver on an ar15 to one of a different caliber. That is part of the appeal of modern sporting rifles, changing calibers at a lower price than buying a whole new rifle. 223/5.56 for target practice, then in less than a minute switch to 7.62×39 for personal defense.

Sorry, missed the sarcasm icon.

[Skeeter Barnes]

3. That's what the "shoulder thing that goes up" is attached to. A very evil combination.

At least I think that's what it is. I don't really care what it is or what it does. I just know you shouldn't be able to have it. Ban it.

[NYC_SKP]

5. I believe I see a "Rocket Launcher Button" right next to that scary thingy.

Diagram:



or

[oneshooter]

6. Here is a close up of the "happy switch"

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[Skeeter Barnes]

4. Glad to see options like this coming for those stuck in authoritarian controller states.