
The larger eyepiece of a magnified optic can compromise your access to the charging handle. With the rise of LPVOs, we’ve had a lot of shooters realizing that they need a bigger and better-charging handle to manipulate their charging handle.

Why would I ever want to upgrade it? Why not save the money and buy ammo? Let’s look at a few of the most common reasons for upgrading your charging handle. The charging handle that came with your rifle seemingly works perfectly fine. There are lots of reasons to upgrade your charging handle. That’s what we’ll discuss today, as well as examine the best charging handles on the market and help you become a bit more educated on the what and why of charging handles. That seems fairly simple, so why has an entire market popped up to provide AR owners with a means to readily upgrade their charging handle? The charging handle can clear the chamber, clear malfunctions, and give the user an external means to control the bolt and bolt-carrier group. What’s a charging handle do? Well, traditionally, it serves as a means to load the first round from the magazine to the chamber of the weapon. This popularity and modularity have given us a massive aftermarket, and you can upgrade nearly every part of the rifle.

He must have had some expectations, and I imagine he’d be quite excited to see variants of his rifle serving the United States military, nearly every American police force, and as the most popular rifle in the civilian firearm marketplace. I always wonder if Eugene Stoner knew that his rifle design would become oh-so modular.
