Why so few featureless?

[Devon]

When scrolling through all the beautiful pictures of AR rifles on this glorious sight, I am a little confounded as to why there is an overwhelming amount of AR AK rifles set up with bullet buttons. Especially the AR crowd.

I am 37 years old, and just squeaked in the window for a real registered AW and cut my teeth on that rifle. When I decided to purchase another AR a few years back, I slapped a bullet button on it and was just disgusted.

Perhaps a bullet button is all some people have ever shot with?

A bullet button on an AK is just dangerous, and you have to struggle to make it work and potentially muzzle someone while waving the thing around upside down with a ballpoint pen in the the damn thing. While smoking hot.

I went the MONSTER MAN route and have never looked back. Give me an ambi safety, and I would trust my life to a featureless rifle any day.

The only reason I could think of for a bullet button is because more people are familiar with it and know that it is legal and that is why I have several set up that way. To not get questioned as to why I have a 30rnd mag and no bullet button on my gun. And that also it slows you down a lot and saves ammo too, which sometimes can be nice.

If you just want a cool looking gun, get an air soft. If you want a real service rifle, go featureless. Do you really need a collapsible stock? Do you need the short stock for body armor? Do you really need a flash hider? Forward grip? Because if you do, then the bullet button makes all of that a joke anyways. I mean night vision compatible Eotechs with a bullet button????? Give me a break.

I don't mean to hate on anybody's gun. I love all the rifles. Never held a gun I didn't like. Just saying.

Long live real AWs.

[Alpha Male]

can i own what i want to own? maybe this ar15 is not by **** hits the fan weapon? maybe ill just slap a kydex grip and if **** hits the fan ill just unscrew that crap and be g2g?

[IrishJoe3]

I don't think featureless is really that well understood by shooters at large.

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[Meety Peety]

Everyone likes different things. Everyone owns guns for different reasons and has a different purpose in mind for them. If you really think that in a "shtf situation" people would be running around with bullet buttoned ARs then you are a fool.

[meno377]

I have more than one AR and one of them is featureless. I may do another one soon. But I didn't think it was necessary to make them all featureless simply because some are range toys and some are set up for longer range shooting.

A BB doesn't make a difference in those situations for me.

[Click Boom]

Just have a place in nevada like me

[Randomnamerealquick]

For the range a bullet button is fine...if I actually need a service rifle I won't be using a bb or a grip wrap because at that point the law would be irrelevant

[Need More Ammo]

I don't want any extra attention at the range. I'm pushing it with my 14.5 " barrel, don't need people coming over and asking how I'm dropping mags with my finger.

[Moriarty]

A "real service rifle?" I'm not currently in the service. If I'm ever in a situation where I need a "real service rifle" I'm dead certain I can convert my BB'ed rifle into one way faster than you can convert your featureless rifle into one.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

I don't think featureless is really that well understood by shooters at large.

It isn't.

And it is quite evident that a lot of people are also much more concerned with how their rifle looks than how it performs. Bullet buttoned AR's with all of the evil features are awesome for photo shoots and showing off to buddies. For actual shooting, not so much.

[Foxx]

I think it has a lot to do with lack of knowledge about what a featureless rifle is...

I have several friends that own AR15s. When I told them I was going to make mine featureless, none of them had any idea what I was talking about. After explaining it to them (specifically the no bullet button part) they were all pretty interested in it...

[mjpjr1]

I don't find the BB on my AR much of a problem. And as said before, if I ever need a service rifle, swapping out the BB is much easier then converting a featureless rifle into one. If you want featureless, why start with an AR or AK platform to begin with?

[robodeer]

There's a few other options such as a m1 garand, m1 carbine, mini-14, that m1 carbine clone, etc.

[jdben92883]

Most featureless options make the feel of the gun completely different. I have an AR setup with a Thordsen that's pretty comfortable, but I don't want all of my rifles setup that way. I have an MR-1 that is comfortable, but it's not an AR. I don't like the Monster Man or Kydex on an AR. Radlocks make most of your points against bullet buttons moot, except perhaps the increased potential for failure.

I personally think bullet buttons for most anything but an AR are pretty lame. AK bullet buttons are heinous as are the other chastity belt style "buttons". I hate my SCAR button, but that gun isn't going featureless. Tavor button is ridiculous, but that rifle happens to work OK featureless with a wrap.