[yarddog]

Americans have a tendency to like whatever their military rifle is. I guess other countries probably do the same, for instance Canucks like their SMLEs

I remember a Jeff Cooper article many years ago. He said he preferred the Garand over the M-16. Then he admitted that his old Marine Sergeant thought the Garand was a gimmick and the O3 Springfield was the better rifle.

[Vince Ferrer]

Americans have a tendency to like whatever their military rifle is.

There's that, plus the fact that people will like it because the government wants to ban it. Whenever someone gets up and decries what an evil weapon it is, and wants to ban them, a significant portion of the people who hear that think, "Cool, I'll buy two then."

[45semi]

According to this azzhat...
""It was the last shiny thing that they could sell to an aging group of gun buyers,"
said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Funny, when I was doing uspsa.org shooting, I often saw the '3-gunners' doing their thing.,(pistol, shotgun, rifle -almost all AR-types)
almost all of whom were DECADES younger than me...
Libtards wanna blame everything on 'old , mostly Southern, 'bitter clingers'...