Magpul Masada

Magpul from what I have seen in recent months makes a lot of devices that make AR-15s run even smoother, such as magazine followers. They also make other supportive devices for .308 powered rifles. Their focus seems to be forward thinking ideas to make current battle type rifles possibly work even better. They just came out with a whole new concept assault rifle, using many modern battle rifle conventions, and showing some improvement ideas. We'll get more into its features soon. This is just to illustrate that in a way, a lot of these smaller companies making new weapons ideas is like when Armalite came out with the AR-15 and the military wanted it and had Colt mass produce a militarized version what became the infamous M16. However, these days I don't see the military adopting anything new anytime soon. It appears that no matter how much many of us complain about some of the 5.56 NATO cartridge properties in combat, it's not going away when so many NATO pact countries have adopted it. Is the military sticking with the M16/M4 for a little longer? It does work very well, extremely accurate, and when absolute shot placement is practiced, it kills enemies. Is the military thinking far ahead of these designs? Are they not even caring and just staying with the tried and true? Are they in a state of 'we'd like to, but we have too much of what we already have, and fielding a new weapon system would take too long'? I don't think any of us knows exactly. But as time goes on, in the near future, aspects of this will be covered in this blog.