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out a silencer and operated with a single finger through a dedicated hole in the handguard. Out of the box safety switch worked as Bat- tle Arms' one which is praised and which I personally consider as one of the best when it comes to a pre- cision of switching the position of it. Ambidextrous charging handle is enlarged and is not worse than Geissele or Radian ones. Trigger is a bit heavier than Geissele but significantly lighter than Mil-Spec ones – very good, it doesn't have to be replaced. What is more, folding stock doesn't limit the functionality of the rifle, barrel and front grip are quickly changeable allowing to use different caliber in matter of sec- onds and one torx wrench. I. Want. This. I came up to the distributor, had a small talk and received an of- fer I couldn't refuse. One week later I had my own MCX Virtus rifle. SIG SAUER MCX VIRTUS 11" From the very beginning I wanted to swap a trigger, fire selector and charging handle but as mentioned slightly above, I decided they are good as they are and go along well with the overall design of Virtus. Accessories, gadgets. Call them whatever you like. For the sights I picked an EOTech EXPS 3-0 holographic sight. The reason was simple. I always liked EOTech ho- losights. Additionally, I slapped on a G33 magnifier to help myself for the distances over 100 meters. Modlier OKW weaponlight light with 700 lumens output and an enor- mous 69,000 candelas which puts the stream of focused white light with a range of approx 100 meters. Mounted on Arisaka M-LOK mount. Laser aiming device is the Steiner eOptics DBAL-A2 with a Railscales LEAF front sight so I saved a lot of space on my rail and with foldable MAGPUL Pro rear sight they create secondary sights, 1/3 lower co-wit- ness height. Laser and light are of course operated with a Surefire re- mote switch. Magpul MOE K2+ pistol grip is rub- berized version of the famous MOE www.fragoutmag.com