Bushmaster quality?

[Iraqgunz]

Cool story. Apparently you are the SME on this topic.

I find it hard to believe that "an agency" is having problems with their guns. Why? Because SURELY they have many highly educated Experts telling them what to order etc....People who KNOW that certain guns are junk etc.....who would tell them so, who would provide persuasive examples of how Junky those guns really were- assuming they were actually doing their jobs etc....Again, as YOU SAY, the difference, and I have to believe at LEO pricing it's even LESS of a difference, in cost is minimal.

As far as sending a gun back for issues, there are certainly some issues that I would send a rifle back for. Staking a castle nut or a carrier key isn't one of those things. The postage in sending it back and risk of loss in shipping- happens more than people like to admit, far outweigh the two minutes it takes to "fix" it.

With Colt, I can't really agree with all that. First, there is no way that their civilian sales are anywhere near what Bushmasters numbers are- the last time I looked, Bushmaster outsold Colt 2/1. Market share in business..."is a thing" that has meaning for a companies survival and profitability. You can't just pretend it doesn't matter. Second, their "liabilities" should have been wiped out in bankruptcy- that's the purpose of a bankruptcy if done properly. And their location? Move. Firearms companies - those that want to stay in business- Magpul (Texas), PTR (South Carolina), AAC (Alabama), Beretta (Tn), Winchester (ammo plant, Oxford MS) Armalite (Arizona).....See a pattern? Are getting the hell out of communist shitholes that want to run them out of business or where labor costs are stupidly high....in fact ALL MANUFACTURERS of products have known that if they wanted to survive in the U.S., they need to move south at least since the 1980s'- this is nothing new. If they are too stupid to figure that out, then I don't care how good of a product they make, they deserve to fail.

[Esq.]

Cool story. Apparently you are the SME on this topic.

Not at all.

But I do understand how business works. Anyone who has taken Business 101 knows I'm right. I understand bankruptcy. I understand that ever since the Rust Belt concept was coined that businesses have fled the Northeast if they wanted to survive.

I understand that the AVERAGE AR15 consumer isn't you or me and denying it doesnt make it less true.

[Jsp10477]

Bushmaster, DPMS, Del-Ton, & PSA are the fat chicks of the AR world.

[Glock9mm1990]

I had a bushmaster that I bought before I knew anything about AR’s back in 2015. Well fast forward to 2018 I got educated on the AR-15 platform learning so much though those few years. Eventually I finally got around to selling the upper on an online sale, striped the lower down to just the bare receiver and installed a BCM lpk including their Mil-spec buffer tube that is torqued at 40 foot pounds and staked twice along with a bcm buffer spring and H buffer. I then threw a complete Colt 6920 upper on it now it’s a completely different rifle.

[Esq.]

Bushmaster, DPMS, Del-Ton, & PSA are the fat chicks of the AR world.

True enough....

[26 Inf]

Bushmaster, DPMS, Del-Ton, & PSA are the fat chicks of the AR world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6qvJp4zPlY

[Bret]

I have several Windham Weaponry AR15's and love them. They all run great, even the one in 7.62x39 on full auto.
https://youtu.be/ma82EphaORQ?t=4m40s

[wetidlerjr]

I have had two complete Bushmasters from around 2000-2001 and I still have one of the lowers that I use with my 22LR upper. I never had any trouble to speak of but I wasn't a high round shooter with either rifle.

[Slater]

Bushmaster, DPMS, Del-Ton, & PSA are the fat chicks of the AR world.

Does Spike's belong on that list as well?

[sjc3081]

I had a Bustmaster Carbine around 1996 went single shot after the gas key came loose after about 500 rounds.