Originally Posted by stwings

S&W has done themselves a great disservice trying to market their "Sport" line as a true warfighters tool. They sell a ton of Sports to first time AR15 buyers who don't know what a real AR15 is. That said, the Sport is a great entry level plinkers gun with light duty home defense ability. I'm sure there are Chinese parts on the Sport line to keep the cost competitive.

Their "non Sport" M&P15 line is more to "milspec" stadards.