Remington to Sell Civilian ACR Rifle in Early 2010
This past week, Remington held a new products seminar in Kerrville, TX. While Remington tried to impose a “news embargo” through November 15, details leaked out about many of Remington’s new guns.
The big news is the planned release of a civilian, semi-auto version of the Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR). The Guns and Hunting Blog “spilled the beans”, revealing that Remington plans to sell a semi-auto ACR in the civilian market, starting in the first half of 2010. Based on a Magpul prototype, the ACR has been under development for two years, as a collaboration between Bushmaster and Remington. Price for the civilian ACR is expected to be under $2000, considerably less than the FN SCAR, a similar weapon now being tested by the U.S. Military.
The civilian version of the modular ACR will likely sport a 16.5″, 1:7″ twist barrel standard. Multiple barrel lengths can be fitted (see diagram above), and barrels can be changed without tools. Remarkably the entire gun can be field-stripped down to six major components in under 90 seconds. The ACR features integral rails on top of the receiver and on the forearm. The buttstock adjusts for length and also folds back using a hinge at the rear of the receiver. The charging handle is non-reciprocating. Weight with a 14.5″ barrel (no magazine) is 7 pounds.
Adam Heggenstaller of Guns and Hunting reports: “The consumer version will be offered with a 16.5-inch barrel, but Bushmaster will also be making barrels with lengths of 10.5, 14.5 and 18 inches. The first version of the ACR will be chambered in 5.56×45 mm, of course, but since a tool-less disassembly allows you to change bolt heads, barrels and magazines, the ACR can be user-configured to run with other cartridges as well. Ongoing development will focus on the 6.8 mm Rem. SPC, 7.62×39 mm, a yet-to-be-disclosed 6.5 mm round and the .30 Rem AR.”
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Its about time, I’ve been waiting for this 5.56 since 07
It’ll go nicely with the MSAR STG 556 and XCR is an awesome multi-caliber rifle
Bushmaster makes the most popular AR15 in the nation, and the R15 and R25 rifles also sell really well, I think this will be a crown jewel of their combined weapons knowledge
i wonder if it be be available in different colors like a earth brown or od green. anybody know?
No other color know but when they see people wanting them i am sure we will get different colors probably in 2011. ( I Have Been Talking to my local dealer for months) Sucks for me cause they are not selling them with a fixed stock yet — which makes it illegal in NY.
I cant wait till i turn 18 and i can buy this…. do you think the civilan model will be as good as the origional or lesser, as in quality and accuracy,,, and i hope you can just buy parts and creat your own gun, that would be amazing
Does anyone know if civilian version will be able in Europe?
is the civilian model of the remington acr out yet? if so how do i get one?
i just got back from afghanistan and we worked with special forces and they had acrs and it was an amazing weapon…..im tryin to get one now but i havent heard much about local gunstores selling them
As of February 2020, ACR has been disconnected. Magpul made a mistake when it sold this awesome platform to Bushmaster.