Nope. Never has been. There are far better platforms for the .223 cartridge than the Mini-14.
Ruger had an awesome concept and they screwed it all up for decades. Now that they've finally in the last decade revamped it to make it almost passable, the market has passed it by. Wouldn't be the first time Ruger has done this.
And it won't be the last.
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