It has a QD sling-swivel socket on either side, just behind the receiver. The Maxim Defense is a four-position brace, and you can pull it open with one hand. The four-position adjustable Maxim Defense pistol brace is one of the best on the market.

It’s so good, some customers are buying the brace to put on their rifles and SBRs. Not only can you stick your arm through it and use it as a brace, but when shooting it off the shoulder, the rubber brace portion doesn’t slip.

In function, Maxim’s pistol brace is superior to their stock. In both looks and functionality, the Maxim Defense CQB pistol brace is indistinguishable from the best personal-defense-weapon (PDW) stock on the market, which is also made by Maxim. Since this pistol is so light, I decided to stay that course and top it off with the lightest red dot I have, a Trijicon adjustable LED RMR with their quick-detach (QD) riser mount. The Match unit in the Edge Pistol, on the other hand, provided a nice, beautifully crisp 3¾-pound, single-stage pull with a very short reset. Any AR that costs over a grand (much less $1,500) shouldn’t have a trigger pull that sucks. The standard AR trigger pull is 6 to 7 pounds and is usually gritty, which is a technical way of saying it sucks. I can’t tell you how many $1,500 ARs I’ve tested that have had basic triggers. You’ll see screws on either side of the receiver, holding the trigger and hammer pins in place, as inside the lower receiver is a drop-in cassette-type trigger unit - Springfield’s Match single-stage trigger. There are stylized inlets in the side of the receiver as well as slots cut into the integral, oversize triggerguard. I’m not sure who started doing this kind of lower first, but a lot of the semi-custom AR shops (like Battle Arms Development) are producing them, and you’ll pay $250 for just a stripped lower. With the Edge pistol, you get a good-looking lower made from billet aluminum sporting a uniquely contoured magazine well.Ĭheck out the stylized billet lower receiver. Both the handguard and hand stop are Springfield designs. The handguard has M-LOK attachment slots all around and comes with a small aluminum hand stop mounted at the front. The barrel is free-floated inside an aluminum handguard roughly 9¼ inches long. The enhanced M16 bolt carrier group is finished with Melonite, just like the barrel. 625 inch at the gas block, and the low-profile gas block is an adjustable model of Springfield’s own design. The barrel is tipped with a standard A2 flash hider and has a carbine-length gas system.

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