It handles pretty well, but is a little heavier than an AR of the same barrel length (HBAR, it's way heavier than an A1 or M4 barreled AR). Once they have had a few years to iron out all the kinks and drop the price a bit I'll get one, but right now I have big gaps in my collection to fill and the M96 isn't one of them. Once they get that belt-fed version out though, it will go up in cool points :> LAter.