LRF (Lower Receiver, Forward Controls Design) is a
collaboration between Sons of Liberty Gunworks (SOLGW) and Forward
Controls Design (FCD).
Machined from a solid block of 7075 aluminum, LRF is an
ambidextrous AR15 lower receiver with built-in right side bolt release,
designed to use our EMR-A (Enhanced Magazine Release, Ambidextrous), a
Norgon Ambi-Catch will also work on the LRF.
Design of LRF was completed in 2019. Due to difficulties of
Covid-19 induced lockdowns and subsequent buying frenzies of all things
firearms related, production was continuously delayed. Neither SOLGW
nor FCD are known to rush development or production, we had used this
time to further refine the LRF.
LRF was designed with duty and defense users in mind. Its changes
from TDP based lowers are based on ergonomics and better protection of
magazine releases (both left and right side):
LRF was designed with duty and defense users in mind. Its changes
from TDP based lowers are based on ergonomics and better protection of
magazine releases (both left and right side):
* EMR-A (Enhanced Magazine Release, Ambidextrous) fence on the left side.
* Taller than TDP spec magazine release fence on the right side to
ensure TDP spec magazine release button stays below the fence.
* Countersunk take down pin hole on the left, when the user pushes
the take down pin in from the left side, the pin can be pushed in
further, with more protrusion on the right to pull from.
* Built in trigger guard with the same features as our TGF (Trigger guard, Forward Controls). TGF has more usable space forward of the trigger, not behind. It also
has a “ramp” to facilitate magazine loading for users that use the rear
spline of the magazine to index and “rock” the magazine into the mag
well.
* Flared magazine well with a larger opening.
LRF’s changes are subtle and wholly functions based, a duty/defense
firearm doesn’t concern itself with aesthetics, nor benefit from them.
One will not find it decorated with lightening cuts/holes, or
obnoxiously large logos. Neither SOLGW nor FCD follow fads.
A tastefully small Cygnus is engraved on the right side of the LRF
magazine well to denote FCD’s involvement in the project’s development,
one can easily miss or overlook it, and that’s the point, we don’t
intend the LRF to be a walking billboard. It’s designed and made for
work, not for show.
LRF is shipped only with the right side bolt release and its
associated hardware, it is otherwise stripped. You must use the
supplied, longer bolt catch plunger/right side bolt release actuator,
our advice is to install the left side bolt catch last, especially if
LRF has one an ABC/R v3 bolt catch/release.
