Not sure I'm grasping the legality aspect of the XCR rifle being "non restricted" as a standard "hunting rifle" in your current AO.
Do hunters in your AO use semi automatic rifles for hunting ? If so, why ? Are they taking more than one shot to bag a white tail ? I'm not necessarily saying that semi automatic rifles are not decent hunting rifles. In fact one of my hunting buddies baged a bull elk with an H&K G3 three years ago. He of course loaded only one cartidge in the mag.
With a folding stock, semi automatic operation, rail configuration, with a pistol grip it appears to me be a military style weapon not a "hunting rifle"
Oh, yeah I caught the "pistol grip is better than others" also. But then I glanced over the customer pics, most had swapped out to the Mag PUl MIAD grip.