04-28-2015, 05:15 AM
My question is why all of the dislike for a forward assist. It certainly isn't a necessity and I have only ever had to use it maybe a half dozen times between 1987 when I went in the Army and now, having got out of the Army in 1993 but having an AR ever since. It was never in a life and death situation either. It has never caused me any problems though.

