When a Carpenter needs a hammer, he buys the hammer of hammers because he's going to use it all day long. Its gotta take the stress and the abuse it will see on the jobsite every day. It has to be light with a comfortable grip for prolonged use. He will spend the money to have the best.
When Joe Blow needs a hammer to do the occasional job around the house, he buys an affordable hammer that he feels will accomplish most tasks. It just has to work. He will not spend the money to get the fancy hammer, because a lesser hammer will do.
A serious shooter/competitor will buy the Colt.
A once in a while shooter/novice will buy the Norc.
Both will go bang and hit the target, its just that the Colt will run better, faster, longer. That said, if you can't swing worth $hit, the fancy hammer won't help much
Everyone says that Norcs won't last over a "better" AR...where's the scientific facts behind that? Has anyone ran thousands of rounds side by side? IE, you put a Ford and a Toyota side by side and run them both at the same speed, which one is going to break first? All I ever see in the debate about guns is subjective experience from one person or heard from a friend of a friend. Be objective and back up everything with facts.
The anecdotal stories you hear are comparable to case studies in the world of research. In the hierarchy of good scientific study designs, case studies are at the very bottom.
