>>64013118Charging handle - unobtrusive location, seals gas nicely, operation complies conveniently with bolt release, extremely reliable, hard to break. It just works.
Buffer tube - see attached image. Mass, Spring, and Damper systems are the best physics systems in the world for mechanical systems like a cycling gas system because they can be tuned very precisely. The buffer tube system allows you to do this very easily by changing buffer, weights, and spring.
No, you can't fold the stock.
It's a tradeoff, not a fault.
Forward assist - 100% top brass meddling that is made irrelevant by rack, tap, bang procedure. However it does do what it's supposed to do, isn't very obtrusive and adds negligible weight. Commercial options exist to remove it so it's a nonissue to us regular folk.
Now if you said something like carbon fouling shitting all over the innards of the receiver you would have a point. But your complaints indicate you don't shoot enough to have a reasonable argument.
