For the past 25 years, Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT) has strategically partnered with various branches of the United States Armed Forces, government agencies and other firearm manufacturers to design, develop and test multiple systems and sub-systems. 

Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT) was founded in 1980 to provide the US military, law enforcement and government agencies with high quality weapons, components, and modular weapon systems. Since the beginning, the LMT mission has been to meet their customer's expectations of quality, price and delivery of precision machined parts, weapon systems, assemblies and engineering services. In their twenty-five years of doing business in Milan, Illinois, LMT has always been environmentally responsible, as well as working to become an asset of their community while providing their employees with a rewarding and challenging work place.  

LMT continues to serve the US military, law enforcement and government agencies, and has expanded to include foreign military services as well as commercial retailers. LMT's engineers design and fabricate complete weapon systems, grenade launchers, and Monolithic Rail Platform (MRP) systems specifically for the demanding environments that the military and law enforcement face on a day-to-day basis whether in urban environments or in desert combat situations. LMT produces a full line of accessories and components for the commercial market complementing any M16 or AR15 type weapon.

CQB Defender with 16" Chrome Lined 1:7" Twist Barrel, Standard Trigger, Standard Bolt & SOPMOD Stock.  The LMT Defender MRP CQB Rifle is built from the LMT Defender Lower, which includes the SOPMOD stock and Ergo grip, and the CQB MRP Upper with a 16" barrel.  Designed and manufactured by Lewis Machine & Tool Company, the patent-pending Monolithic Rail Platform, or MRP, is the most radical variation of an integrated rail system ever conceived. This one-piece receiver/free-floating* handguard/rail system is precision machined from a solid aluminum forging for absolute strength and consistency. The MRP completely replaces the upper receiver and provides an unprecedented level of versatility to the operator. All complete weapons ship with (1) thirty round magazine, sling, operators manual and tactical adjustable rear sight.  The CQB16 also ships with a tactical front sight, torque wrench, driver and (2) rail panels.

Benefits:

• Free-floating barrel
• No loss of zero from rough handling
• Reduced temperature to handguard & optics
• Increased barrel life
• Easy-to-access/clean design
• Straight gas tube resists bending and retains better alignment with gas key
• Reduced number of parts (13)
• Quad Mil-Std 1913 rails
• Top rail position matches M4 & E3-type weapons ensuring optics and sight compatibility
• Accepts standard & enhanced M16-type (Stoner design) components