Ain’t none of them there wanna be ‘high speed, low drag operators’ would be caught dead with a carry handle on them cheap ARs. They want to festoon them with rails to mount all the bling they think they need. A carry handle would only get in the way.

They have taken what was meant to a lightweight 6 1/2lbs handy little carbine and turned it into a 10lbs+ monstrosity.

The ones I know spend more on those optics than they spent on the rifle.

To quote the great philosopher Tuco, “When you got to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”