No, that is not why.
The reason is because if if you take two players, using the same type of dropsuit, and using the same amount of skillpoints invested in their favourite weapon, place them inside the most common combat distances encountered in the game, and say,
"Okay, ready... aim.... FIRE!"
the AR user will be the last one standing.

A skilled user of (insert weapon name here) may be able to beat a new-to-medium-level AR user. But when average meets average, the AR user will win. Especially now with autoaim, and the fact that some alternative weapons dont have that.

Fighting AR user with my ASCR at long rane is almost impossible, even I land first shot I still lose because of the kick -.-. Isn't ASCR suppose the best to counter AR ?

Until I opened my eyes and learned to love the AR.

CCP, I wish you could feel the anger and sense of hopelessness I feel. I feel borderline forced into using the AR due to the fact that the other weapons simply do not compete.

No, its supposed to be the Amarr half assed version of the Gallente full auto just like how the TAC AR is now worse than the Scrambler having lower damage, range, ROF, and no charge
Also fun fact, since the scramblers overheat is based on time and not shots fired if everyone really did have a turbo controller like people were bitching when the TAR was flavor of the month then they would be able to put out ridiculous amount of shots before overheat instead of the, oh what is it, roughly 17 shots before overheating now?

Absolutely incorrect.

Assault Rifle's optimal range: 38m

Laser Rifles's optimal range: 66-85m

Even the Duvolle Tactical has inferior optimal range than the basic Laser Rifle (65m)

Isn't ASCR is the auto one ? Or I misunderstand and their dmg is 39.7 that almost same dmg as ar low ROF ? lmao have u check it before u post it? And also I'm asking about ASCR and u give me completely different answer

No, its supposed to be the Amarr half assed version of the Gallente full auto just like how the TAC AR is now worse than the Scrambler having lower damage, range, ROF, and no charge
Also fun fact, since the scramblers overheat is based on time and not shots fired if everyone really did have a turbo controller like people were bitching when the TAR was flavor of the month then they would be able to put out ridiculous amount of shots before overheat instead of the, oh what is it, roughly 17 shots before overheating now?

The AScR has somewhat comparable numbers to the AR on paper, but not in practice. The AR has less dispersion, less kick, less armor penalty, less falloff penalty, no overheat, and bigger clips with faster reloads, all adding up to better DPS at all ranges.

There you go a real answer, I know they still over heat but that wasn't the problem, the most problem are the kick made ASCR impossible to fight at long range I hope Ccp add sharpshooter skill tree for us

OP must be doing something wrong. It's nothing to drop 30-40 per game with my SCR. I do it consistently.

Confirming Lea is a beast with ScR.

But you only get 20-25 when I'm on the other side

Isn't ASCR is the auto one ? Or I misunderstand and their dmg is 39.7 that almost same dmg as ar low ROF ? lmao have u check it before u post it? And also I'm asking about ASCR and u give me completely different answer

I was talking about both, you should spend some SP in reading comprehension
While the ASCR does have higher damage it overheats and is a little more unwieldy if you only hipfire all day long which is more of a negative that counters the positive of higher damage in unskilled hands