Yesterday, I was working at my friends gun shop and they were having a huge tent sale of military surplus gear. Among the items I found this curious looking item. It appears to be a clam shell guard for an M4 carbine that had an Aimpoint, vertical grip and a laser device (likely an AN/PEQ-2A or similar)on the top of the handguard. There’s no markings at all and it looks rather well made by someone who’s had a lot of experience doing carbon fiber and fiber glass molding. I’d almost guess that it might have been manufactured by a company but, as I said, there’s no markings.
Any ideas? Anyone ever see something like this?
ETA: Sorry to the mods for posting in the wrong section.
To protect your weapon while jumping (landing) and have the ability to point shoot until you have pulled the quick release, as for the safety manipulation, the one halo2304 picked up seems to have addressed this issue.
A better mousetrap over padding/taping or (god forbid) placing your weapon in a 1950’s weapons case.
It certianly does look like some sort of prostetic device or something.
It looks like the one I found was either modified or the one pictured in the link is a prototype because the one I found doesn’t appear to cover the charging handle. It’s likely that the soldier jumps with the M4’s safety off but the chamber empty so they land, rack and shoot if needed.
