Collapsible stock actuation and manipluation?

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

With ARs and their buffer tubes, you are kind of stuck with how a collapsible stock works and is manipulated. With my MP5s I have collapsible stocks but they are kind of a pain. You have to manipulate a control at the back end of the receiver, while you control the gun with the other hand, and with the third hand you move the stock.

It seems that a control closer to the buttstock end would be a more efficient way to manipulate an adjustable stock, but does that just add complexity that makes it not worth while? OR am I just not looking in the right place for the stock?

[SteyrAUG]

With ARs and their buffer tubes, you are kind of stuck with how a collapsible stock works and is manipulated. With my MP5s I have collapsible stocks but they are kind of a pain. You have to manipulate a control at the back end of the receiver, while you control the gun with the other hand, and with the third hand you move the stock.

It seems that a control closer to the buttstock end would be a more efficient way to manipulate an adjustable stock, but does that just add complexity that makes it not worth while? OR am I just not looking in the right place for the stock?

Not sure how you are doing it, but with my non shooting hand I trip the lever and extend the stock, takes about a second. When collapsing I engage the lever with my non shooting hand pull it into the shoulder to get it moving an inch or two and then palm it closed with my non shooting hand.

I can actually deploy a MP5 slide stock much faster than an M4, of course that is all canceled out by the atrocious cheek weld of an HK slide stock, the only worse ones being the AK and the Uzi.