May 2020 – San Antonio, Texas – Sons of Liberty Gun Works (SOLGW) in collaboration with Forward Controls Design (FCD) set out to create a safety that’s an embodiment of our considerable experience in AR15/M16 selector design and knowledge over the years. This collaboration resulted in the “Quick”.
The Quick was designed from the ground up to be a defense/duty/combat safety selector. Its’ mission is quite aptly reflected by the way its’ levers are attached the center, via a stainless-steel roll pin. The lever to center interface is incredibly strong, the high shear strength (800 lbs) 420 stainless steel spring steel roll pin simply holds the two in place and doesn’t handle any load. One of the design goals dictates there be no wobble between the lever and center, we’ve called for very tight tolerances (+0.001/-0.00) on the Quick’s lever and center interface to achieve that.
The Quick is shipped with a selector spring, a nitrided selector detent, two levers, 4 roll pins (two are needed for installation, with 2 spares).
We do not ship the Quick with one lever installed as we recommend installing the center (dimple forward) and installing the grip, allowing the detent to hold the center in place. Using a vice block to then hold the lower receiver as both levers are installed.
Quick centers are billet machined in 4140, heat treated and black nitrided. Levers are billet machined in 4140 and black nitrided.
Manufactured 100% in the USA.
Available now at sonsoflibertygw.com.
Could someone please explain why Gucci/designer selector levers are a thing? Because Barbie AR’s?
This isn’t gucci, Roger’s whole philosophy is function over form. This is deigned to be robust as possible. Some people prefer ambi and/or short throw selectors.
Because selectors are breaking all over the place?
This^^. In my entire Army career, I have never had a fire selector break/fail, nor have I heard of it happening to anyone else either.
Only seen it once and was with a KAC rifle. They remedied it immediately. But that’s MIM for you. Apparently they have redesigned their safety in the past several months though.
Does the nitriding not wear on the fire control clockworks? Otherwise looks like a nonsense design as usual from Forward control Designs.
NO-nonsense I meant of course. Ooops.
@ Sommerbiwak, Can you give a relevant example of a nonsense design FCD has brought to market?
The Quick looks like it is designed to make the ergonomics better fit certain owners. Some will have little use for it, others will think it is perfect for their hand size/shape/structure, and others still may hate it because of the change in safety manipulation feel. It is all subjective and based on the individuals style of effective shooting.
Options are not a terrible thing, otherwise we would all still be shooting basic M4 carbines with 7″ Quad rails.
If you should check out their site. They offer a select fire safety that is 50° short throw for single and 180° for Auto/Burst. Also I suspect with the lever set above the center of the safety one could put the weapon in Auto/Burst alittle easier and maybe not have to break a firing grip as much.
ASF wasn’t designed for broken safeties, but for better ergonomics. The offset levers (q levers) are designed so the levers are closer to the user when the selector is on FIRE/SEMI, and give the user the ability to access without shifting his grip. If you’re happy with what you have, there’s no need to change to something else. I’d suggest giving the ASF/The Quick, especially the ones with the offset levers a try. At $75 (semi) and $80 (M16) MSRP, they’re expensive, but not the most expensive safeties in the space, they’re expensive to machine. FCD is an American company, we use only American workforce and material, we won’t apologize for that.