50 years of ARs being used in all kinds of wars all over the world and not one single documented case of the forward assist ever being put to good use. It would seem that that normally useless doodad has been kept there all this time by a miracle of fate for the singular purpose of saving his life.
This is definitely one of those too strange to be true kind of things.
That said, now that it's seemingly fulfilled its purpose in life, can we finally retire it already???
ETA: And just in case someone hasn't mentioned it already, Kyle got lucky. They did studies of the viability of the forward assist before it was even implemented, and Stoner rightfully concluded that the forward assist, statistically, would cause further problems in I think 2 out of 3 malfunctions. So tap and rack is still the best go to.
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