Increase the time between "bursts" of rounds. Remove the scope.

Then we need a 'Tactical' variant of the CR

It's too good at too many things right now. Respectable damage and range, non-existent recoil, good clip size, low fitting requirements, projectile damage profile (15% armor damage is incredibly handy when the metagame is strongly leaning armor).

CR clip size (non-assault): 54
AR clip size: 60

6 round difference and the AR is a full-auto weapon.

CR clip size (Minmatar assault V): 67

...then there is this So when fitted to the light weapon specialist dropsuit you can fire even longer between reloads. When you do finally have to reload...

Reload speeds
RR: 3.2s
AR: 3.0s
CR: 2.6s
ScR: 2.5s

The CR has the second fastest reload speed too. The ScR beats it by 0.1s, but it also has an overheat mechanic that can actually kill you and seizes up your weapon.

The CR has the lowest fitting requirements of all frontline rifles to boot.

Basically, I have no idea why anyone would use anything besides a CR on a Minmatar assault/commando, any logi, any scout unless you are roleplaying your character. The gun is good at everything except long range engagements; the RR trumps it there, but suffers a pitiful CQC penalty for it.

Bright that is a pretty big factor among a few rifles. Lets try to stay away from direct nerfs the devs will handle that lets just stick to unique things that make it a little more fun and a little harder to play.

How about a actual jamming mechanic (not like the ion bug) a rng roll for reload it is a projectile weapon and this happens quite often with open bolt systems.

I like that, leaving it up to the player to screw themselves it would also likely put an end to turbo you sneaky bugger :D.

Not to get off topic, but I wish they would have done something like that with the cloak delay. Like a damage debuff instead of just not being able to fire that way scouts would have a chance to expose themselves.

As a armor bricked Amarr Assault...

The CR isn't as bad as you guys are making it out to be.

The only issue I see with it is its fitting costs. Its easier to fit a CR than it is to fit an SMG. That just seems odd to me. I would imagine it would at least use more than the SMG.
Its other stats seem fine to me.

Yeah, 400's not that hard if you were talking about something like the SCR, but remember that with the CR you also have a 0.06 second pause between each burst.