I tend to buy online. I like transfers through Armed Sources Pawn & Gun, J&S Pawn and Gun, or Eagle Pawn and Jewelry.

Armed Sources is a nice guy, J&S has been around forever and is a generational business(the current owner is the previous owners son, who picked it up after he passed) and Eagle Pawn is just close.

Since you're looking for an AR, there's a lot of options and basically any gun store that isn't pure fudd will be able to meet your needs.

Do you know what kind of AR you want or how you want to build it out?