I'm looking for opinions on ARs. I like to tinker with my guns, especially range guns, not so much the ones that travel with me often. I want to buy or build a nice AR carbine specifically for home defense, at least that's my current excuse.
Is it easier to just buy a solid base rifle and add a few parts or buy the lower and add specific items one at a time until I'm happy with it, which may be never.
For those that are seeing a lot of different ARs in courses etc, what brands are worth considering? or just buy a Daniel Defense M4 carbine, slap a Micro on it and call it a day? what items have you seen to specifically avoid?
Thanks in advance.