LAR-47 uses a standard AR-15 charging handle, or any of the modified/tacticool/ambi/versions thereof.
The chamber is specifically and generously cut for crappy eastern European steel cased ammo, and both the bore and chamber are chromed. The carrier group is also chromed to help alleviate some of the fouling from the ammo we know that everyone is going to use in it. The bore is nominal .311 for the Warsaw Pact/Chinese ammo.
Standard furniture.(CAR-length gas system)
Any "AR" trigger group.
Only mags that we've had issues with (meaning won't work) are the majority of drums (the tilt issue), US Palm, and TAPCO. P-Mags work, except Magpul has been beefing up the exterior of the feed lips...a little little sanding or just letting the bolt go closed across it several times will take care of it. We've also used steel, bimetallic, bakelite, and those weird red lacquered mags in the LAR-47 with minimal issues (meaning that in any batch of a hundred mags, we'll have a couple that won't work for whatever reason, but most of those have been found to be mis-welded or otherwise deformed when inspected, explaining the issue).
Not necessarily going to be the ideal choice for everyone, but for those with a load of AK mags and 7.62x39 ammo who prefer an AR platform to the AK platform, it has been quite popular so far. Had quite a few in the field this fall in states that let folks hunt deer and other mid-sized game with a rifle.
Three new models introduced at SHOT, with a few thousand of the original two model shaving gone out over the course of the past six (or so) months.
Just though you all would like to hear from the source.
Steve/RRA
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