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So we did that long before the gas lock model was designed.

So we actually gave folks an option to not use it.

So that was the button locking feature that I had come up with.

And then the next thing that we looked at was ambidextrous controls, right?

You have to have ambidextrous controls, right?

Especially for some of the military and government contracting stuff that we do, obviously everything has to be ambidextrous.

But something that we noticed when we started taking apart other charging handles on the market,

and looking at the way other folks were doing things is that we couldn't find something that was truly independently ambidextrous, right?

Because in order to be ambidextrous, right, you want it to work from both sides, but you also want that independence of control.

You want something to not rely on something else in order to function.

And that's what we saw across a lot of them, really any other charging handle on the market was that there was reliance on another component.

so any other charging handle on the market when you hear them call themselves ambidextrous they're not truly ambidextrous there's a dependency that goes on inside of their mechanism so one of the easiest things that i tell folks to do is if you want to see this in action any other charging handle on the market if you grab it and you open up the right wing or your ejector side wing

When you open it, what you'll notice is that the left wing or your non-ejector side wing will open with it.

So they open simultaneously.

That's because inside the mechanism, the right wing is connected to the left wing and the latch that holds into your upper receiver latch is built into this left wing somehow, into this non-ejector side wing somehow.

So they're either nested into each other where they're either pinned into each other or they're just one component.

They're one machine component or one plastic mem component.

So in order to open up the latch via the right wing, you have to open the left wing.

So there's a dependency there.

If something were to happen to this left wing, you don't have a latch anymore.