For our purposes we will examine both styles of handguard in this section. The integration of the picatinny into the handguard is a blessing to those who like to accessorize their firearms. These accessories might include secondary optics, lasers, night vision, tactical lights, bipod's and much more.
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The purpose of these han guards with picatinny rails is to permit a multitude of weapon accessories to be mounted to the firearm to make it suitable for a given task.
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Depending on the manufacturer and use these handguard's may also be free floating. The handguard's are of the tactical nature integrating picatinny rails on one or several locations around the handguard's circumference. Moving forward modern manufacturing process have made it possible for yet another style handguard to come to life. A free floating handguard is designed in a manner where the handguard is secured to the receiver but never actually touches the barrel to influence the rifles accuracy.
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Eventually as the AR15 became more popular and AR15's became target rifles for civilian and military shooters alike the free floating handguard was born.
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There was a time when an AR15's handguard served one purpose, to keep flesh from contacting the hot barrel. AR15 Free Float Handguard's, Forearms, Quadrails