Just a suggestion, but could TI please stock their side rail for the Kobra mount and the Picatinny mount and side rail as a separate SKUs from the kits.
This would allow for:
- people who buy the optic ready Type 81 to buy the Kobra rail to act as a thread cover for the pins until they can afford the Kobra optic
- people who buy the optic ready Type 81 to later buy the Picatianny side rail and adapter without having extra pins and right side safety
- people who already have a rear stop Eastern Block optic already who previously bought the Type 81 Picatinny Kit to use the Kobra rail with their optic and already installed threaded pins
I know TI will not want to split up kits, so hopefully they can commission a few plates and plate/rail combos from their manufacturing partner.