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Also a note on "aftermarket kit"; as skleletor said aftermarket stocks, vertgrip etc are pretty common, it's all up to your chain of command.
That being said...funny story....
Our Unit just had our annual weapons technical inspection... someone from the base support organization where the weapons techs work comes in to check that our weapons are servicable etc...
Well, this time they sent a civilian contractor in to check our weapons, and when he saw the number of rifles with aftermarket vertgrips, rails, buttstocks and rail accessories etc he flipped his lid, declaring these to be "illegal weapons modifications" and snapped pictures of all the offending items....
I was hauled into my sergeant major's office and chewed out over my VLTOR buttstock, others are in it for vert grips which are non issue mostly... I'm away from work this week but last I heard all the weapons are being "quarantined" to be assessed for "safety issues" ......
Do I have any worries over this ? Not at all, obviously a newbie civilian contractor who doesn't have a clue, but unfortunately he is the authority in Kingston for some reason on these matters and the process has to run it's course.
So yes while we use after market accessories on our personal weapons, sometimes you run into that one special person who "didn't get the memo" as it were....
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