Calling all new generation gun owners

I am getting bored of the usual guns for sale. I have an AR15, I love them, but I know there are new cutting edge designs. The issues with the AR/M16/M4 are the gas system which are sensitive to fine particles such as the Mesopotamian sand. The charging handle is on the rear which is rather uncomfortable. The industry seems to be blindly fixated on the M16 class, when I know many people who are hungry for something new. The AR boasts some great features, but they are all technically 40 years old, and lets face it, the flat top reciever is not new. There is a reason it was called MIL-STD 1913, since its design was created in 1913. The difference is much of firearms took 8 decades to implement it. I'm not a rich person, but I'd say if its under $2000, I could feasably foam at the mouth and ready myself to afford one. I would like to see the Magpul Masada offered semi-auto and at your local dealer. I would like to see the HK G36 in a semi-auto configuration and offered at your local dealer. I would like to see space age, but reasonably affordable designs competing for my dollar. For now, all I can do is dream and wait.

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.