The Vltor Weapons Systems A5 Buffer & Recoil System was developed for the specific needs of U.S. Military users of the M16A4 rifle (or AR-15’s with rifle-length gas systems). The A5 system provides the functionality of a collapsible stock while maintaining rifle-length buffer system reliability. It includes a newly designed buffer and receiver extension.
After more than a year of development, testing and refinement, the Battle Arms Development – Ambidextrous Safety Selector (or ‘BAD-ASS’) has finally been released, which is very exciting for me as a left-handed user of the AR-15. The BAD-ASS is user-configurable and addresses the issue of lever interference with the trigger hand when rotating the lever from ’safe’ to ‘fire’. The BAD-ASS is designed for both left and right handed shooters who believe that ambidextrous controls on a weapon are an advantage, and allow the user to operate the weapon as efficiently as possible no matter which side they’re firing from.
Many of us who tinker with the AR-15/M4 family of weapons have dealt with difficult castle nut removal when changing out the retractable stock receiver extension/buffer tube. The HammerHead Rifle Tool is a multi-purpose tool designed primarily as an M4/AR-15 carbine castle nut wrench, which makes that job a whole lot easier. It comes in two variants – and armourer’s model made of 1095 steel and a lightweight field deployment model made of 6AL-4V titanium.
Addax Tactical and Primary Weapon Systems (PWS) continually work on refining their gas piston upper systems, and when Addax informed me of some available upgrades to the Addax ATAC (Advanced Tactical AR Carbine) GPU (Gas Piston Upper) which I featured previously, I was interested.
Firearm Ready Solutions, LTD, and is now offering the Anti-tilt Buffer assembly as a drop-in cure for carrier tilt in the piston operated AR15/M16 platform.
To compliment their BAD-T1/’The Armorer’, the multi-purpose tool and precision ordnance gauge designed for the M1A/M-14 type rifle; Battle Arms Development (B.A.D.) has come out with the BAD-T3 and BAD-T4 double-ended gas cylinder lock wrench tools. Like the T1, the T3 and T4 are specialized, high-end quality tools designed for the shooting enthusiast.
Bravo Company U.S.A. teamed up with Vltor Weapon Systems to produce their new BCMGUNFIGHTER™ charging handle for the AR-15/M-16 family of weapons. The BCMGUNFIGHTER was designed to address the issues that the AR-15 platform is seeing with the ever evolving manual of arms, as fighting and weapons manipulation techniques have changed since the M-16 was first put in service.
The BAD-T1/’The Armorer’ from Battle Arms Development (B.A.D.) is an ingeniously-designed, unique multi-purpose tool and precision ordnance gauge designed for the M1A/M-14 type rifle, and the M1 Garand. The Armorer is comprised of several multi-function components that can be assembled into different configurations to perform more than 30 weapon-specific functions. It isn’t a general multi-use tool, but one with specialized functions unique to the M1A family of weapons, that replaces a host of weapon-specific tools. This is the first time M14 gauges and tools have been combined into one multi-functional tool, which should make M1A owners, armorers and enthusiasts very excited.
The ARC (Advanced Reliability Combat) Magazine from TangoDown is now offered in 20-round capacity. Why 20 rounds? Some folk prefer to use the 20 round magazine for its lower profile, so they can get closer to the ground when using a bipod, instead of being limited by the 30-round magazine sticking out the bottom.
