Semi-Auto Rifles

	Rock River Arms LAR-15 Elite Comp There are two schools of thought when it comes to buying an AR-15. The home armorers among us will readily purchase a base-model AR and gleefully spend weeks or months replacing parts and adding accessories to make it just right. These are guys with a lot of time on their hands and nice shop in the basement.
	Folding Phenom Para USA’s entry into the tactical rifle market features a folding stock and a modified gas-impingement system that runs cooler and cleaner than your standard AR.
	Tactical Rimfire Rifles The word “tactical” is increasingly used to describe just about anything black or that looks like it belongs in the kit of a special operations warrior. Softer-shooting clones of some of today’s most popular tactical rifles reduce the price of practice and are a whole lot of fun. Here’s a close look at eight of the coolest .22 LRs you’ve ever seen.
$Get to know your AR\$	Getting to Know Your AR With AR-style rifle and carbine sales near critical mass, a large number of them are already sitting in closets, gun-safes and under beds, patiently waiting to be exercised.
	DPMS Hunter ARs DPMS is one black-rifle manufacturer that has embraced the AR’s new role, building variations of the platform with features specifically intended for hunting. Although the company’s long-barreled AR-15 variants chambered in .223 Rem. and .204 Ruger have found favor with varmint shooters, big-game hunters require cartridges with larger bullets and more power.
	Auto-Ordnance AOM160 The Auto-Ordnance AOM160 is about as recognizable at first glance to members of the Greatest Generation as class is to Paris Hilton.
	Civilian SG550 The story of the new Sig Sauer 556 starts with the AM55, the last in a series of weapons to come from experimentation that began in 1908 focusing on the Mondragon—brainchild of Mexican Gen. Manual Mondragon and the first gas-operated rifle implemented on the battlefield.
	CZ-USA VZ 58 Military Sporter While the Kalashnikov-pattern rifle was the standard bearer of the Cold War-era Soviet Union, the VZ 58 was an intriguing satellite-state variant adopted by the Czechoslovakian Army in 1958.
	Doubletake M&P9 and M&P15 For most of the 20th century, Smith & Wesson’s meat-and-potatoes gun was the Military & Police model revolver. With more than 6 million sold, it was easily the company’s most popular product in terms of sales.
	DPMS Panther Hitting a small target at 500 yards may be lots of fun, but few rifles do it with the kind of consistency shooters demand. Those coming from DPMS Panther Arms are a rare exception though.
	DPMS Panther Sportical About the only thing manufacturers of ARs haven’t done to the platform is produce an entry-level model with an MSRP more in line with that of traditional, value-priced sporters. Even when it’s less than a grand, the cost of a single AR could still fund the purchase of two bargain bolt actions.
	Stag Arms 2TL Stag Arms was among the first companies to offer a viable treatment by modifying one of the most popular and versatile semi-automatic rifles of all time for southpaws—the venerable AR-15.
	Tuning the FAL's Gas System Considering the political climate these days, a lot of people are buying semi-automatic rifles in fear of looming restrictions. Although there are many choices out there, for those looking for a full-size 7.62x51 mm gun, the FAL-pattern rifle can make an excellent choice.
	FNH-USA FNAR The FNAR from FNH-USA is a precision tactical rifle variant based on the Browning BAR sporting rifle. Modifications include a detachable box magazine system and a pistol-gripped stock with adjustable comb and length-of-pull inserts. It is shown here with a Leupold Mark 2 3-9x40mm scope.
	FNH-USA FS2000 Standard Chambered in 5.56x45 mm (.223 Rem.) and designed to feed from AR-15/M16 magazines, the gas piston-driven FS2000 was first introduced to the U.S. market in 2006 in a “Tactical” configuration sporting a green stock and a flat top with a polymer M1913 Picatinny rail on its open, flat-topped receiver (which FNH-USA terms the “barrel support assembly”).
	Buy a Car, Get an AK-47 Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors in Butler, MO, gained his 3 1/2-year-old company national notoriety in August 2008 when it gave away vouchers for a handgun with every vehicle sold that month.
	FN_PS90 At no other office in the world is there more daily discussion and debate over firearms than here at the NRA. It’s not uncommon for a passerby, with firearm in hand, to draw editors out from behind their desks for an impromptu bull session on the gun’s merits or faults. In my career here, no other gun/caliber has generated more ire, angst and derision than the Frabrique Nationale Herstal PS90 carbine and the 5.7x28 mm cartridge.
	Remington's R-15 VTR Series Proven tactical platform to give predator hunters an edge in the field.
	FN SCAR (SOF Combat Assault Rifle) When it comes down to it, no one could seriously argue the AR-pattern rifle looks outdated. With its extensive use of alloys and synthetics as well as its legendary adaptability through its modular design, the AR easily looks the part of tomorrow’s rifle.
	Sabre Defence M5 Tactical Sabre Defence provides just about every top-of-the-line accessory a shooter could dream of as standard equipment on its M5 Tactical.
	PTR 91 In the halcyon days of the 1970s and 1980s when U.S. civilians could purchase semi-automatic rifles from around the world, the Heckler & Koch G3-based HK91 series of roller-locked, delayed-blowback, semi-automatic rifles were a perennial favorite. This was due in no small part to their extremely high quality and unassailable reliability.
	Ruger Mini 14 Ranch Rifle With sales approaching 1 million and the loyalty of a generation of shooters, Ruger’s Mini-14 has secured a permanent place in firearm history.
	Ruger Mini 14 Target Rifle The Ruger Mini-14 has proven its ruggedness since it started riding around in pickups in 1974, but getting it to consistently shoot neat little groups at 100 yards has often been an exercise in frustration. Accuracy—frankly not the Mini-14’s strongpoint—has generally taken a backseat to its simple and reliable operation.
	Ruger SR-556 When I was 16 years old, I managed to save enough money to buy my first self-loading rifle, a Ruger 10/22. With 500-round bricks of .22 LR ammunition going for $15 apiece in those days, my friends and I loaded and expended 10-round Ruger rotary magazines and aftermarket 30-rounders as fast as minimum wage allowed.
	SIG Sauer SIG556 Classic When SIG Sauer introduced its SIG556 carbine two years ago, many American shooters were excited by the prospect of a U.S.-manufactured, semi-automatic version of Switzerland’s heralded SIG SG550. The SIG556 resembled the SG551 LB, a carbine variant of the SG550 designed to accept a bayonet.
	Springfield SOCOM 16 Bad guys beware. While the 5.56 mm NATO has often been decried as less than adequate as a tactical rifle, there is no doubt about the 7.62 mm NATO’s prowess in the field. The SOCOM 16 puts that tool in the hands of law enforcement, military and civilian shooters.
	GP WASR-10 The term “black rifle” was coined to describe the family of modern military firearms springing up in the Western world beginning in the 1950s. Rifles such as the G3, FAL and M16 took advantage of modern materials and cutting-edge design to create a uniquely new category of firearms. However, the Soviet Union had its own contribution to the modern military rifle family—the AK.