I've wanted one of these for a bit but the last of "new" production my LGS had from the Remy bankruptcy auction were higher than I cared to spend and lacked the matching sights. I found this one on one of the forums and made a deal for it. It is the "Enhanced" model with quad rail and folding stock.

I was able to find new/old stock parts at MGW and ordered two handguards, the fixed stock shown in these pics and a spare lower module. It's pretty interesting to see the thinking here....AR18 operating design and truly modular. No tools are needed to swap configs around including barrel/caliber changes.

Franklin Armory bought the rights to the platform (and Bushmaster) out of the fire sale and is said to be working on re-releasing the ACR (and hopefully spares and caliber kits).

I ordered a Midwest Industries MLOK handguard for it as well. I prefer the handguard shown in the pics but no idea how long parts will be offered and it's the matching FDE/Field Drab so that saves me a step.

On to pics...I'll be taking it to the range on Monday for the annual private MG shoot a friend holds down south in VA. I'll bring this and my FN FNC with a Butler Creek electronic magloader (which works great).











and with the "Enhanced" parts. Interestingly, the handguard mounts in the same way as the Sig MCX - slide overs the monolithic receiver and secures with a single pin

Neat looking rifle, was thinking "poor man's SCAR" until I looked up the MSRP on them. Not a cheap rifle either.

I have always wanted one of these rifles. Congrats on finding one and getting the parts you needed/wanted. Hoping Franklin Armory will pull it off and release these again.

Let us know how it shoots!

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
Neat looking rifle, was thinking "poor man's SCAR" until I looked up the MSRP on them. Not a cheap rifle either.

yes, a SCAR traditionally has sold for what I paid on this one. Personally, the Bren 2 is the "poor man's SCAR"....which is why I own it vs. the SCAR. I've shot the 16 and 17 and it comes down to: 5.56? Bren 2. Real effin NATO? SCAR 17. For me at least.

That does look like a serious rifle. Nice looking.

I had a chuckle when I saw it didn’t have a pmag in it.

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Originally posted by Voshterkoff:
I had a chuckle when I saw it didn’t have a pmag in it.

I can't find my coyote brown pmags so didn't want to stick an FDE one in there. Soon.

Pretty sweet rifle; personally, on the aesthetics front, it looks better than a SCAR 16S.

Liked it when it was originally the Masada. Should have a changeable m16 type grip.

I picked up an ACR several years ago, it was the basic one but I got a folding stock for it as well. I was disappointed that I couldn’t get a 300BO barrel for it. Now it doesn’t matter as I have an 8” and 16” AR uppers and rarely shoot either … but if the mood strikes me I’ve got about 600 rounds loaded up just in case.



By the way, if you want to put a lighter/2-stage triggers in it, just pick out your favorite and either use the original spring or modify the one in your kit like the original … I haven’t tried one of the drop-in units or a binary.