That's an excellent point. You can't be 100% sure that the rifle is in battery if you're riding the charging handle back down. Being able to bump the forward assist a couple times to make sure is a handy thing to have available to you.
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Ar15 stripped upper, dust cover but no fwd assist
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That's an excellent point. You can't be 100% sure that the rifle is in battery if you're riding the charging handle back down. Being able to bump the forward assist a couple times to make sure is a handy thing to have available to you.
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Yet there isn't another platform that has one. (Although many have fully functioning charging handles directly connected to the BCG.)
Don't worry. This is human nature. F'rinstance, let's say you are an industry - banking for example. You lobby HARD against this awful new expensive banking regulation bill sponsored by some Barney in mAssachusetts. Anyhow, you lose teh fight and Congress passes the bill into law.
About 8 years later, there is a glimmer of a chance for the whole thing to get kit'n'caboodled out of here.
Do you fight to get rid of it???
Or do you publicly state that it's a good thing and you want it to stay??
Guess what the bankers did?
It's like Stockholm syndrome. But much broader. Once you have something - even if it's absolute S-word, you are reluctant to get rid of it. Other subsets are postpartum depression and people who feel something "missing" when their tumor is removed. Crazy.
Am I saying we need it? Nope. What I'm saying is now that we've got it, human nature says we're stuck with it.
Don't worry. This is human nature. F'rinstance, let's say you are an industry - banking for example. You lobby HARD against this awful new expensive banking regulation bill sponsored by some Barney in mAssachusetts. Anyhow, you lose teh fight and Congress passes the bill into law.
About 8 years later, there is a glimmer of a chance for the whole thing to get kit'n'caboodled out of here.
Do you fight to get rid of it???
Or do you publicly state that it's a good thing and you want it to stay??
Guess what the bankers did?
It's like Stockholm syndrome. But much broader. Once you have something - even if it's absolute S-word, you are reluctant to get rid of it. Other subsets are postpartum depression and people who feel something "missing" when their tumor is removed. Crazy.
Am I saying we need it? Nope. What I'm saying is now that we've got it, human nature says we're stuck with it.
Vltor makes an upper that u can attach the forward assist with a pin or leave it off.
