There is a nice review of the Rock River Arms Law Enforcement Tactical Elite Carbine and Standard A2 Rifle in the new issue of Cruffler.com. http://www.cruffler.com/review-August-01.html

Thanks for the review.  I sent this link to a lot of my friends that own RRA's and now they're even more impressed by RRA's rifles.  Most of them hadn't even heard about the company when I told them about RRA.  After they played with my rifle, they loved it and bought their own.  Most of the people who own Bushmasters, Armalites, or Colts are also very very impressed.  I think with the way things are going, RRA is going to become a big name in AR-15's.  I had no idea before this article that the owners of RRA had such credentials.  Very impressive.

Contrary to what was posted in this review, RRA DOES NOT have either an engineering staff or do any of their own machining.  In fact it's two brothers and their wives.  

They're getting cutoff from their suppliers do to not paying bills (can sell cheap if you don't pay suppliers), so they'll be a flash in the pan.

Buy Bushmaster, Colt or another company who will be around to provide warranty service!

Quoted: Thanks for the review.  I sent this link to a lot of my friends that own RRA's and now they're even more impressed by RRA's rifles.  Most of them hadn't even heard about the company when I told them about RRA.  After they played with my rifle, they loved it and bought their own.  Most of the people who own Bushmasters, Armalites, or Colts are also very very impressed.  I think with the way things are going, RRA is going to become a big name in AR-15's.  I had no idea before this article that the owners of RRA had such credentials.  Very impressive.

Another Bushmaster "Buy a Bushy because they're the greatest.  They are really good at fixing the crap they produce (that should never have passed QC the first time) on your dime and time!" Fan.

AS IF!  This thread adds clarity to my momma saying "Go take a BM and don't forget to wipe!".  The BEST warranty is the one you never need.  Yeah.  If you want a rifle screwed together by Jughead with a wrench-go ahead.  They'll fix it after you pay for it, wait for it, have a damn fit when you see how "well" it's made, send it back and wait for Jughead to fix his obvious screw-up, then wait for it some more.  Read the Bushmaster forum.  It is beyond me how peopple can suffer through this BS and still be queer for a brand.  UPS (or whoever) is probably making as much profit off BM rifles as Bushmaster, with all this mailing rifles back and forth.  E Nuff.  Rock River is great stuff.  Won't soon buy any other.  BS Shooter needs to take his BM fascination and unsubstantiated remarks and go pound sand.

OH NOOOOooooo!

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Bushmaster gunsmiths did a great job on my AR15. It took only two weeks to get it back. They opened up the mag well which was originally so tight that it was hard to insert or remove any one of my mags. The weapon had a Zero of 23 click left with A1 sights. Too much for my liking. They also addressed the feeding problems that were all too frequent. While it was in the shop, I requested that they change the A1 upper to an A2 upper. I already have an A1 upper on my 9mm Colt, and this upper was badly butchered on the very top of the receiver and under the carry handle. It looked really bad, but had it functioned properly I would have left it alone. They were going to reuse my barrel, but instead they just pinned on a brand new A2 upper complete with barrel. They also test fired her before shipping her back. The A2 upper was done for $30, wich is the difference in cost between the A1 and A2 uppers. The weapon came back in a new hard case, with a new factory ten rounder. I sent it to them in a cardboard box, with no case. That was very cool of them considering that I told them on the phone how I trashed the factory frankenmag after a bad day at the range that resulted in more FTF's than shots fired! Thus far I am very pleased with Bushmasters customer service. Now I have to get back to the range in PA and see how well she functions and get her Zeroed.

I would not bet money on Colt being around for service but BM...maybe. I would be interested to hear where the rumor came from that suppliers are cutting them off. I've heard rumors like this before and they don't always pan out. It is interesting to note that BMshooter had a post over in general discussion trashing CDNN.
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=45223
He wouldn't reply to any questions about his problem from forum members and CDNN even replied back to him in the forum to send his mags back as they stand behind everything they sell! Still no response back yet.

I smell a rat...osp! sorry A TROLL...

After reading the "review"....

I must point out a couple of issues that make me think HHHHMMMMMMM.

I dunno what smoke was blown up Cruffler's
posterior.

ArmaLite started using the "intermediate" length handguards years before RRA.

The Larson brothers are NOT engineers, or machineists. Who's engineering/tech data are they working with?

As stated in the article, the Larsons worked for Springfield, Les Baer, and ArmaLite.

Ain't it funny that several of the RRA's rifles are VERY similar to their previous employers products. (WTF is up with RRA rifles with GREEN buttstock/handguards/pistol grip?)

The Larson brothers are NOT shooters. Call 'em and ask 'em how to zero a "DCM" (outdated name, try CMP) AR15.

Sorry, but there is too much about RRA that stinks. Even if the end product(LEGP?) is "OK"...does that justify the means?

That dog don't hunt.