Guys, let's remember this news "story" broke on The Truth About Guns - the gun media Equivalent of the New York Post.
I was browsing Brownells the other day and noticed they had FN uppers for about the same money as the Colt uppers. Are the FN ARs still considered good to go?
"If I ever needed to hunt in a tuxedo, then this would be the rifle I'd take." - okie john
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel De Montaigne
I have one of the early M&P15 1-9 rifles and it's a 1 MOA rifle with Federal M193 and my Hornady 55 FMJBT handloads. It's my goto rifle. Never an issue and it'll ping an MGM flasher at 300 yards all day long. I have no need to stretch it further with heavy LR bullets. My only bitch is the magwell doesn't want to take a Pmag unless you pound it in. About 5 strokes with a file on the bevel would fix that, but I'm lazy and have the metal mags that came with it which run flawlessly.
I wasn't suggesting, or attempting to suggest which twist rate is or was superior. Simply that HCM probably meant to include 1/7 in his post above rather than repeat 1/9 twice.
My rifle came with a Gen2 PMAG so I simply purchased a bunch of same since I know they work with it.
There's nothing civil about this war.