Since you guys were interested in the belt fed AR-10 yesterday, I found some more photos.

Posted by Specialist-Ad-5300@reddit | Firearms | View on Reddit | 16 comments

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BloodyRightToe@reddit

These are great because they show how the carry handle was always a guard for the original reciprocating charging handle. Once the handle was moved it should have been removed. But it was such a great engineering idea it couldn't just be killed when it was rendered mostly useless. It should have never been in the casting for the upper on the AR-15.

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Rob_Zander@reddit

The carry handle was also a guard for the charging handle. Plenty of guns back then had exposed charging handles. But plenty also had carry handles that were unrelated to the charging handle. The FAL for instance. Designers knew that grunts didn't like to always carry their rifle slung so they added carry handles. That was very much the idea still when the AR 15 was developed. The carry handle was also an integrated spot to mount the rear sight. Why get rid of the carry handle and have to replace it with a weaker mount for the sight? It only became an issue once optics were available.

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Lord_Larper@reddit

Stellar. Where do you find these?

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Defiant-Glove-420@reddit

Freedom ordinance

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moparwolfman@reddit

A belt fed ar10 would be pretty sweet

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DumbNTough@reddit

Would love to see how phat the gas tube would need to be to stand up to this lol

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TacTurtle@reddit

Make the gas tube water cooled! /s

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ButtstufferMan@reddit

Would a pc fan and conductive copper tape work?

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TacTurtle@reddit

Unlikely to remove heat fast enough.

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bmk2k@reddit

Damn that backpack belt holder is badass

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bolivar-shagnasty@reddit

Can't restrict magazines if it doesn't take a magazine

>insert black_man_tapping_temple.png<

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1Pwnage@reddit

Not very fun fact: you actually can. CA, CO, and NY law for mag sizes to explicitly include belts. In CA, for >10rnd disintegrating belts you had grandfathered before the ruling, you better believe the wording is legally vague as to whether or not that can be re-linked at length.

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