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ambidextrous AR 15??

joshmb1982
i was talking with a friend earlier who is looking for an ambidextrous ar 15. he says hes seen a pic of one where it would eject the spent shell out either side of the reciever simply by closing the dust cover and locking it in place of the side you didnt want to eject out of. ive never seen this. is there such a rifle?
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  • Laredo Lefty
    No, not in the way you describe. There are left hand ejecting AR's, I have one. To change the direction of the ejection you would have to change to a left hand bolt, and I have never seen an AR upper with ejection ports on both sides.
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  • mark christian
    Locking dust cover or not; since I've never seen an AR-15 bolt with an extractor on each side, which would be needed to kick a shell out to the left and the right, I am highly skeptical.
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  • Nwcid
    I know there are a couple of guns that can be switched between left and right fairly easily but I am not sure how it is actually done. I am not aware of an AR that does it but the http://www.msarstg556.com/ does something like that.
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  • joshmb1982
    thats pretty much what i was thinking. i know stag makes lefty ARs. But assumed as mark said the extractor would be on the wrong side. thanks for confirming my thoughts.
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  • dcs shooters
    The AUG'S and clones can be switched side to side.
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  • armilite
    If you had an AR with a left and a right ejector how would it decide from which side to throw the ejected case out of????
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  • beantownshootah
    quote:Originally posted by armilite1015
    If you had an AR with a left and a right ejector how would it decide from which side to throw the ejected case out of????

    First of all, I'm not aware of any such AR gun. As Mark says, I don't think the AR design lends itself to bilateral extractors.

    With guns that have switchable extractors, "it" doesn't decide which side to kick out the empties, YOU decide.

    It ain't rocket science. You do this by leaving the one functional extractor on the side you want the gun to eject to (taking it off the other side), and you open up the ejection port of the gun on that side (closing it on the other side, to help prevent dirt from getting in).

    If you were silly enough to put two ejectors in place, you'd expect the gun to get a failure-to-eject every time it was fired.

    It doesn't happen with ARs, but note that some guns are designed to eject empties straight up, straight down, or out the front. Unlike guns with switchable ejectors, a gun like that could be considered TRULY ambidextrous.

    Check out where the brass is ejecting here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCVb55UxYbU
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