#MagRelease

As a fan of ambidextrous controls, I am always pleased to see when new products hit the market. With handguns going quickly full-ambi, I hope it’s just a matter of time until most rifles follow suit. Until then, companies like Forwarding Controls Design have been hard at work combining modern machining and ideas to half-century old AR-15s.

Newly founded Russian company Dozor produces a drop-in Makarov pistol grip called “PM Grip Kit”. The new grip is more ergonomic and adds a thumb actuated magazine release lever.

To me, its sad that a product like this has to exist in the first place, but exist it does. The UBML, an apt shortening of “Ultimate Bilateral Magazine Lock” is a ambidextrous pair to the “bullet buttons” required by states or countries that various restrictions on self-loading rifles.

I got a mag release from Ace 1 Arms to test on my KRISS Vector under live fire. Ace 1 Arms makes airsoft accessories but their ambi mag release is made of 6061 CNC aluminum. They were interested to see if their mag release would work in the real Vectors. I was confident that it would. The results are great and the design is fantastic.

A new mag release with a hint of color. Made in the USA by Odin Works, the XMR Extended Mag Release is machined from 6061 billet aluminum and anodized to the chosen color. Odin Works touts their mag release: