The 509 may have been a dark horse contender, but now having shot one, its likely what I would have picked. A DOD contract is not always nabbed by the best product, but every company that participates brings their absolute top design. While SIG SAUER may have eventually gotten the MHS system contract, I can tell you who actually won. Building on the FNS models, with some notable improvements, we got the 509 series.
Or just enter an older model painted tan, one of the specifications of the contract. A lesser company might’ve decided to sit this one out. This would be the famed Modular Handgun System competition. FN actually started supplying M-16’s in 1988 and bested Colt again in 2013 for the M-4 contract.įinally, in 2015, the military decided it was serious about replacement, and put out yet another solicitation. You may have carried an FN in your service career and not even realized it, the Colt name being so synonymous with the weapons. Less well known than the belt feds, they have also pretty well thumped Colt on the M-16/M-4 family of weapons. You see, with all the above-mentioned machine guns, FN is pretty much a single-source supplier for the DOD. FN has actually been making polymer pistols for some time now, in what I would consider predictable FN architecture. That, however, would be a tragic mistake. But in the modern era, we mostly think long guns. To be fair, FN also produced the Browning Hi-Power, which historically has very few peers.
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That would also include the SCAR series if you are young, the newest kid on the block for battle rifles. From the legendary FAL, aka the right arm of the free world, to today’s M240 and M249 machine guns, FN is a brand most often associated with heavy-hitting military hardware. When most of us think of Fabrique National Herstal (FNH), also known as FN Herstal and FN America (FN), we think of rifles. We are truly living in the golden age of handguns, as this week’s test model will attest.
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