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the cards we've got. That genius in terms of simplicity solution turns out to be simple pro- jection working as an additional lock mounted to one of the front handgu- ard slots that covers the gas regula- tor from the front. Lock is screwed into the first side slot (counted from the muzzle) so it is flush with the end of the rail. Projection in the form of a "claw" that covers the regulator makes it impossible to set the regulator to a different position than 1 or 2 so it successfully prevents both inten- tional or accidental switching it to disassembly position (disassembly position of the regulator is different in A1 and A2). If by some miracle the regulator would switch into unwan- ted position the "claw" would phy- sically block it from being pushed forward out of the socket. Someone might ask: what if I would need to clean my weapon? After all, I need to take the piston out for the cleaning – do I have to unscrew the lock? Surely not, just take off the front rail that you have to take out for cleaning anyway. Together with the rail you take off the lock so you can turn the regulator to "disassem- bly position" and then take it out of the socket. When you're done, the regulator must be properly set at position 1 or 2 because you will not be able to put the front rail on – the "claw" won't let you do it. There are two versions of the regula- tor – commercial and military. They are not interchangeable, yet both are made in the same way – they are casted and mounted by two screws. Military lockof the regulator is ada- pted to the rail of GROT A0 and A1 that has a mounting system that lo- oks like M-LOK (but in reality it's not) and has openings with different di- mensions. It is not by chance com- patible with M-LOK and there is no way to mount any accessories from that system due to the wider M-LOK slots. Additionally military A0 and A1 front rails had QD sockets for weapon sling embedded in the front angled portion of the rail (which was also upgraded going from A0 to A1 adding a piece of attachable rail with QD slot already in it). In the civilian version, regulator lock is mounted to the first M-LOK slot so the same as in the military version. Civilian hand-guard has a QD socket placed on the side of the rail before the first M-LOK slot so that M-LOK slot is moved back by the size of the QD mounting slot (plus a couple of millimeters). Additionally the QD socket is secured from the bottom by the screw cap that sticks out from the bottom by approx 2 mm. Everything makes mounting a mili- tary version of the lock impossible because it is too short (it will not re- ach the end of the rail and to the re- gulator) and what's more it will pro- trude from the QD socket screw nut. Because of that, the civilian version is longer than the military one and at 2/3 of the length it is offset 2-3 mm to the side to move freely next to the QD slot screw nut. Somebody might have objections that the lock in mounting slot of the rail causes that slot to be unavaila- ble for mounting weapon light or some other equipment but I have to tell you it won't. In both civilian and military versions, the lock does not effectively block anything except the designated regulator, what's more – you can mount accessories directly to it. Lock will then act as a blocking www.fragoutmag.com