Originally Posted by Destructo6

I'm a firm believer that new guns should work flawlessly right out of the box.

I'm also a firm believer that if it doesn't, the manufacturer should fix it until it does, and pay for shipping to/fro. If they never see their screw-ups, how are they to know they are producing problems (barring QC that doesn't seem to exist)?

Add-ons like a nicer charging handle don't really figure into this. My stock charging handle, and those on work guns that have seen hundreds of different users and tens of thousands of rounds, seems to work adequately.