1. Elimination of the Bolt Forward Assist: Stocked STG-556 rifles manufactured after September 4, 2008 no longer feature the bolt forward assist. MSAR made the decision to eliminate the forward assist because of overwhelming customer requests for a STG-556 without the forward assist.
2. Steyr AUG Magazine Compatibility: By popular request and in interest of standardizing Steyr-AUG and STG-556 magazines, STG stocks that no longer feature the bolt forward assist, will also accept the Steyr-AUG magazines.
MSAR WARRANTY
MSAR warrants against factory defects - customer ships at their expense to MSAR Warranty Department with explanation of the problem experiencing along with a valid physical address (guns cannot be sent to a PO Box or General Delivery) and telephone number. If determined to be defective, the gun is repaired /replaced at MSAR's discretion and returned at MSAR's cost. If gun is replaced, customer must provide a location holding a current FFL for shipping and pay any fee's associated with the transfer and any additional fee's imposed by the locality or business.
If the failure of the gun is determined by MSAR to be the result of the customer's action (i.e. improper maintenance, use of improper ammunition, or abuse outside normal wear), the Warranty Department will contact the customer and provide a repair estimate to include return shipping cost's. In the event the customer does not wish MSAR to repair the gun, it will be returned to the customer "as is" with no other action.
42 ROUND MAG ANNOUNCEMENT
If anyone with a Limited Edition did not receive the 42 round magazine with their kit, please call us with your serial number and invoice number. If you have ordered a 42 round mag and paid for it, please call us with your info and we will get those shipped.
Thank you,
Customer Service
828-684-6010
AMMUNITION ADVISORY from TONY
To all STG-556 owners. I have said this before and I will say it again. If you are having ANY reliability problems at all with your STG-556, let me know and we will work closely with you to remedy the problems at our expense. If there are certain ammo issues with questionable ammo, we are willing to investigate the problems and try to remedy these also. We will do some extensive testing with some of this ammo and determine if it is ammo or gun related. We use Lake City, Federal, Winchester FMJ, and Remington 55gr for all of our testing. The reason why we use domestic ammunition is for the simple fact that we have a level of accountability here that you cannot anticipate having with companies located overseas, such as Wolf, Norinco, just to name a few. A majority of the import ammunition or inexpensive alternative import ammo brands are very difficult for us to acquire in steady and large enough quantity to establish an appropriate and accurate base line. We will however try to get some of it so we can perform some test firing with it unfortunately I do not believe I am going to be able to guarantee performance with certain brands. We will thoroughly document this testing with video and data collection to try and determine specific problem areas if there be any. As with any high end product, most times you need to feed a premium engine, premium fuel to expect top performance. Any of you who needs to contact me please do so. I am available for questions almost 24-7. Regardless of any outcome that we find regarding ammunition types that do not properly function we are committed to your safety and satisfaction.
OWNERS MANUAL CORRECTION
In your owner's manual on page 19, please replace the following paragraph: -- Grasp the tab on the rear of the hammer group and pull the hammer group out of the stock (Figure 21).
With this paragraph:
-- Grasp the tab on the rear of the hammer group while pressing down the last round bolt hold open release, and pull the hammer group out of the stock (Figure 21).
STG-556 REPAIR NOTICE LINK
For those of you that received the letter regarding 30 and 42 round magazines, please disregard that letter and follow the below link to a new letter...Please go to the following link for details on the STG-556 REPAIR/UPGRADE NOTICE...
*The $2000.00 MSRP price for the STG-556 "Limited Edition" rifles was a promotional pricing that was announced at the 2007 SHOT show. Any sales of the Limited Edition rifles after Sept. 24th, 2007 will be at the $2499.00 MSRP price that is the normal Limited Edition price.
This is what the "Limited Edition" kit looks like.
Bulletin Board 
