Get a Grip: Angled vs. Vertical Forward AR Grips
Back in the old days, Eugene Stoner and company decided that the plastic hand guard around the barrel and gas tube of the AR was good enough for just about any grip past the magazine well. After all, as long as your support arm had something to hold on to, you were cooking
with gas. (Or at least gas impingement)
Well, about that.

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