This is the carry handle

Nice thread.

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>>29467276
>carry handle

You don't carry it you fucking idiot

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>>29467282
>carry handle
>not for carrying

What was the orginal concept by Stoner and his team? See this on the FAL too. Seems like s carry over SAWs and LMGs which are obviously much heavier and moved into position before being employed

>>29467282
This isn't 1964 anymore, gramps
I bet you also think dry firing is bad

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what is this?

In the early Fairchild/Armalite AR10 versions, the carry handle protected the cocking lever. So it's really just a legacy design where they didn't want to retool I bet.

>>29467312
The carry handle

>"This is the carrying handle. You will never carry the weapon with it"
Th-thanks ma'am

>>29467312
its a can of peaches sir

>>29467276
It has the ability with a 30 caliber clip to disperse with bullets

>>29467312
Looks like the kike that played some guy in friends.

>>29467321
+1

>>29467446
same actor
and namefag day is over fám

>>29467299
>you know, soldiers spend 99% of their time with their gun just carrying the damn thing
>slings are kind of awkward too and take time to setup properly to keep the gun from moving if you're traveling
>if you don't secure it by sling in a proper way, it just bounces all over if you try to run
>this is especially annoying if your other hand is doing something like carrying an ammo can or such
Before mag fed weapons, most bolt rifles could just be gripping around the middle and be fairly stable if you were running and only had one hand to hold it. Without a carry handle, things like the FAL and AR are much more unwieldy in such situations.

>>29467383
Your weekend pass is revoked

>>29467745
Eh, you can carry an m16 in the same way but around the handguard instead. I also like to grab between mag well and handguard in that corner because it's fairly balanced.

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>>29467745
feels so good mang

>>29467276
That's the upper receiver, you fucking video game child.

>>29467321
That sounds about right

>>29467276
the best part was, when they carried things

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>>29467312
>>29467276
Come on, What is it?

Just watch the first Rambo movie.

He uses it as a carry handle.

If Rambo does it, then it is a carry handle.

>>29469937
That's obvious the Bolivian navy on maneuvers in the south Pacific

>>29467312
US army property sir?

>>29469937
uh uh clips?

It wasn't a carry handle originally.

Early AR pattern rifles, especially the 10s, had the charging handle on top of the receiver. The "handle" was there to protect the charging handle and hold the rear sight above it.

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>>29470972
Would be pretty kekworthy design without the protector with bare charging handle, what if it acted as the rear sight?

>>29467276
>This is the carry handle
yes, right where it was designed to be.
next.

>>29467338
i dont know how this meme started. Ive actually seen NCOs (not in the US military) carry M16s via the carry handle when they had to move a large amount of rifles at once.

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>>29468383

>Out in the field with a cherry-ass engineer lieutenant, who carries his weapon like this.
>Hustling from one side of our simulated FOB to the other. Lieutenant takes us past the TOC.
>Captain Blusterfuck, Spawn Of West Point, pops out of the TOC and springs into corrective action.
>"HEY EL-TEE, HOW ABOUT YOU CARRY YOUR WEAPON AT THE LOW READY OR NOT AT ALL!!!"
>Reacts like pic related
>"Sorry, ma'am. Won't happen again ma'am."
>Slings weapon until out of sight of the TOC and then goes back to magwell grip.

Weird dude. But seriously, fuck west point

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>>29468383
Shiherlis brogrip?