New Griffin Enhanced BCG

[alamo5000]

No, it doesn't. Quit blindly folllowing GA's PR stuff. It's the same amount of gas. The laws of physics say so. It's just going to a different place.

The comment about 'bolt gun's was mine and mine alone. I was trying to iterate the design PURPOSE that they talked about on their podcast.

Something else to consider is a lot of "gas in the face" is coming from the barrel/chamber, not through the gas tube, which can be helped by delaying the bolt from unlocking, but the gas is still there and it has to go somewhere eventually.

If this or any other BCG works for you, great, but at the end of the day, the "cheapest" solution is to have a properly gassed rifle from the beginning.

I am not in any way whatsoever disagreeing with literally anything you said, especially the last part(s). I agree with that way more than you can imagine actually.

In general (generically speaking) the firearms community as a whole has been trained to think about certain things the same way as any previous iterations of 'the same thing'.

I imagine if we made a list we could come up with a ton of examples of various companies making bolt carrier groups with all sorts of bells and whistles. Especially when talking about 'suppression' in general I can't think of a single example where the purpose of the product was not intended to 'help rifles be more reliable'. I would probably say among these examples the biggest category by far is "gas management", as in 'to tune your rifles do you use an adjustable gas block or a whiz bang BCG? (Or some other solution?)'

I'm not an expert in industry history, but ever since I've owned ARs almost everything I can remember right now was in some form or another was a competing product to an adjustable gas block.

This one however does none of that stuff. It was not designed nor created, nor introduced to be a better mouse trap in the gas management niche. At least according to their own podcast this was introduced with the primary objective to make an AR-15 quieter (without sacrificing semi automatic functioning of the rifle).