Magpul Industries
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Magpul Industries Corporation is a firearms accessories and complete firearms designer and manufacturer based in Eerie, Colorado in the United States. Magpul Industries takes its name from its first product, an accessory for AR-15 and M-16/M4 rifles. Magpul primarily designs, manufactures, and distributes accesorries for the AR-15 and M-16 platforms. Magpul recently has expanded into the area of complete firearms design.
History
Magpul was founded by Ricard Fitzpatck, a former United States Marine.
Notable Firearms Accesories
Magpul's first product was a simple plastic sleeve which fit over STANAG_magazines, and allowed for operators to more easily draw magazines from pouches and webbing under stress.
Magpul soon expanded its product lineup to included enhanced STANAG Magazine followers, AR-15/M-16 Pistol Grips, Stocks, and other assorted accessories.
Other notable accessories produced by Magpul include the M-93B carbine stock, the CTR Carbine stock, the UBR rifle stock, the MIAD pistol grip, and the P-MAG Polymer Magazine
Magpul is rumored to be developing a shoulder thing that goes up.
P-MAG
The "P-MAG" Polymer magazine designed and manufactured by Magpul has demonstrated amazing resiliency and reliablity. It's reliability has been praised by many soldiers, law enforcement officers, and firearms trainers through informal YouTube video and online forum articles, frequently subjecting P-MAGs to tests that go beyond what would be considered reasonable expectation of a magazine's durability. The most famous of these tests involve a Chevy Avalanche running over standard USGI, Thermold, H&K, and Magpul magazines. [1]
The magazine is available in both windowed, and non windowed versions. The original concept of the magazine factored in the window, and as such the windowed P-MAG can arguably be considered the "standard" version. Due to the fact the P-MAG was designed from the ground up to include a clear polycarbonate window, the windowed version P-MAG does not suffer from less structual integrity due to the cut outs in the magazine body.
The windowed P-MAG allows for users to accurately estimate remaining rounds, despite the fact the window is a small slit in only the lower bottom of the magazine. The viewing system works by having a section of the magazine spring being marked with red paint. The red paint's location in the window indicates the number of rounds left in the magazine.
Firearms Design Consultation
Magpul aided significantly in the evolution of the TDI Kriss from a prototype to it's finalized production design.
Complete Firearms
Magpul Masada
First introduced to the public at the 2007 SHOT Show, the Magpul Masada began as an evolutionary upgrade to the AR-15/M-16 platform, but the only parts that retain commonality with the standard AR-15 and M-16 platform is the barrel, fire control group (trigger pack), and front sight post.
The rifle is of an extreme modular design, and the barrel can be changed in under 30 seconds. The rifle's caliber can be changed in under 60 seconds, and can be changed from a long range precision rifle, to short barreled entry rifle. The rifle has an aluminum upper receiver, and polymer lower receiver. Mated to the aluminum upper receiver, is a trunnion made of hardened, heat treated steel which is arguable the core and heart of the rifle. The trunnion has interrupted threads, which allow for quick mounting and detaching of the barrel. Permanently attached to the trunnion are steel rails which guide the bolt carrier, which results in slick operation of the rifle.
By utilizing a heat treated trunion with permanently attached bolt carrier guide rails to mount the barrel, the Masada is able to avoid "wandering zero" which can be a problem for other polymer rifles. Wandering zero is caused when a large amount of ammunition is expended, and the heat from the barrel and trunnion holding the barrel melts the surrounding polymer which is holding the trunnion in place.
Magpul PDW
The Magpul PDW is a prototype 5.56 caliber personal defense weapon which utilizes a bullpup design principle. The weapon uses STANAG magazines and fire the same type of ammunition at the M-16
Magpul FMG 9
Magpul designed a folding 9mm carbine similiar to the ARES FMG which was first publicly unveiled at the 2008 SHOT Show. The functional prototype unveiled by Magpul utilized a Glock pistol as the core of the weapon.[2]