How This LE LAR-15 Became My Favorite AR

Affordable, flat shooting, and filled with extra features, I struggle to understand why more people don’t snag a police trade-in firearm like the Rock River Arms LAR-15 that I added to my personal safe. She’s no beauty queen at this point, but this gun was built to fight and runs like a tank. As a used police trade-in gun, it does both of those things at an affordable price point.

After putting more than 1,000 rounds through it, this LEO veteran has become my favorite AR-15 in a sea of other options. Without finding a magical wand to dip into surplus military ARs, which are all but impossible for civilians to get their hands on, this gun runs and feels like a solid service rifle that’s a flatter-shooting platform at a fraction of the price.