Chain of events=

1.  Evil Black Rifle owners are dissatisfied with current offerings of .223 rifles.  The cry goes out: "why won't a reputable manufacturer come up with a new .223 rifle that is reliable, accurate, and affordable?"

2.  A reputable manufacturer, hearing this, sees a market for such a gun.

3.  The manufacturer disregards political correctness, opposition from "ordinary" gun owners who see no "need" for such a gun, the very small market share to be won over by making such a gun, and the bad press and potential lawsuits if the gun should be misused, and they decide to build the gun.

4.  The manufacturer builds the gun.  They use parts from existing guns to cut down on research and development, thus making the end product cheaper.  The gun accepts existing STANAG high capacity magazines including the 100 round beta C mag, despite pleas from their in house lawyers to restrict capacity to ten rounds with proprietary mags which can also be sold at a profit seperately.  The gun sports evil features like a pistol grip, adjustable stock, a flash hider, even though these features add cost and complexity and do little or nothing to enhance the actual performance of the gun.  The gun costs less than an AR15 from a competing reputable manufacturer.

5.  The gun makes its first appearance on the internet.  Chairborne Rangers who have never shot one, held one, or even seen one with their own eyes immediately decry it.  The cry goes out:  "Its ugly looking!  The pistol grip and furniture look like afterthoughts and are made of plastic!  Its angular and they didn't pay enough attention to the aesthetic of how it looks when they designed it.  Thats not like my AR15 at all!  Plus I bet it only costs around a hundred dollars less than the AR15 design (which has been around since the 1960s and for which the research and development and tooling and forging equipment was paid off by the manufacturers years ago)."  They say all this with no sense of irony or of their own hypocrisy.

6.  After judging the negative reaction of the very small market segment which it hoped to capture with its new offering, the reputable manufacturer decides not to risk its good name and either makes the gun available to only law enforcement, makes it in a very small volume until the R&D costs are recouped and then drops it from the line, or decides not to bother tooling up for it at all.  The gun is a sales and marketing failure.

7.  Start at step 1 again.

This is what I predict will happen with the Bushmaster M17 bullpup Armalite AR one-eighty B Beretta RX4 Storm.

Fucking crybabies.